I want to make a smoker... light enough to carry while canoe camping!

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Furync

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Hi everyone,

I'm going to go canoe camping a few times this summer (again) and I've been pondering at the idea of making a smoker at our camp area. I have an idea on the shape/style (like a teepee) but I was wondering what I could use as "walls". I've seen a lot built with metal barrels, wood planks, tin... etc... but none of these I can carry easily in my canoe. I need something light. I "could" use birch bark but I would rather not.

I can make shift the shape of the smoker with sticks and say, hang some trouts off a horizontal pole going through the smoker but I need to wrap it in something to form outside walls. I remember seeing deer skins or any type of skins to form the walls of the smoker in an old video... Obviously I wont have these out while canoe camping. Has anyone ever tried with regular blue tarp? Would it get too hot for the plastic? I've also heard of using cardboard but that will be a pita if it rains or gets wet.

Anybody tried it before?
 
The most effective smokers, I find, are a simple 3-stick teepee wrapped in ripstop nylon or a poncho.. You can make a triangular rack about halfway up for hanging the meat. Dig a shallow bowl inside for a light coal base and dump green wood chips on top. The only thing you need to bring, assuming you can find the wood chips you're looking for naturally, is a couple yards of light, compact parachute material. If you don't have any ripstop nylon lying around, you can buy a few yards of canvas at walmart, it'll get the job done. To see this demonstrated go to hulu and search "Survival School" I believe in the second or third episode they demonstrate the parachute/teepee smoker. Very easy, very effective.
 
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