Since y'all are good with wood

[Dunderi]

Shauny built a large box.

It is the "cupboard" for a smoke-house.

We will duct the smoke out of a separate fire box, into the cupboard, where it will turn regular foods into delicacies, before drifting out the top vents.

It is built from raw pine, braced with hardwood. It weighs a freaking tonne, as it is large enough to hang a whole pig, or lamb, or a couple quarters of beef...

We can put racks/shelves in it too, for cheeses

Anyway, I want to know if we should paint the cabinet with an oil, or something? Or just let the smoke preserve it?

We are going to put it under cover in an open shed, so it should not get rained on.

[Camel]

I wouldnt worry about painting it, the paint smells could get mixed up with your desired smoke flavoured tastes. What kind of pine did you use ? Radiata ? I wouldnt use radiata at all, it is very resinous and unless you are doing a cold smoke, the heat from hot smoking could bring out the flavours of the resins, and I sure do hope you didnt use treated pine. You have some fantastic hardwoods down there, surely you could have found one of those.

[Dunderi]

Cold smoker. Will build a hot smoker at a later stage, but wanted a cupboard for doing bacon & cheese.

Raw pine, not treated. (Arsenic? Yay!)

Yes radiata, but thats all that was available :/ it sucks that it is resinous when green but I'm hoping it would become less so after a few trial smokings, maybe time to dry it out?

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[DSD]

Doesn't keachie work in a saw mill?
All you could het was radiata?

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[Camel]

Yeah, its pretty hard to get decent timber these days, bloody green retards and piss weak pollies have totally stuffed our hardwood timber industry, and replaced it with our near total reliance of a feral tree imported from California of all places.

Maybe if you give it a really good hot smoke while its empty to kind of season it, that may cover the resins in the radiata.

Or maybe you could render down some pork/lamb fat and coat the inside, but that would probably end up with you having meat flavoured smoked cheese.

[Dunderi]

Doesn't keachie work in a saw mill?
All you could het was radiata?

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Yup. A mill where all they work with is radiata pine. Go figure

[Dunderi]

Yeah, its pretty hard to get decent timber these days, bloody green retards and piss weak pollies have totally stuffed our hardwood timber industry, and replaced it with our near total reliance of a feral tree imported from California of all places.

Maybe if you give it a really good hot smoke while its empty to kind of season it, that may cover the resins in the radiata.

Or maybe you could render down some pork/lamb fat and coat the inside, but that would probably end up with you having meat flavoured smoked cheese.

I'm hoping if we do just that (a good hot smoke out) it will kind of dry it up a bit.

If it doesn't work, I'll have him put solid shelves in it and use it to store grog or something

[Rabbitz]

Yeah, its pretty hard to get decent timber these days, bloody green retards and piss weak pollies have totally stuffed our hardwood timber industry, and replaced it with our near total reliance of a feral tree imported from California of all places.

But we got 'em back.

They planted out a heap of paper bark and tea tree around Hollywood. Apparently to slow the wildfires they get.

A big oops on that one...

[Camel]

Well its nice that we have repaid the favor.