Smoke House

[Tatius]

when i get my cabin built i want to build a real old fashioned smoke house behind it, i would like to build it out of logs as well in order to match the cabin, but heres the rub, i dont know anything about chinking will it withstand heat and to what temperature will it be good up to? a smoke house doesnt get real real hot but it does get to about 200 degrees maybe 250 if your in a hurry.

[Basil]

The smokehouse on my grandparents farm was built out of board and batten, worked fine for years and never had a problem. They sold the farm long ago but it's still standing and I know it was used for at least fifty years. Logs and chinking will hold up much better than that. Also, I don't have a lot of experience with smokehouses but I know theirs never got up to 200 degrees. They may have been using it more for flavoring than for full smoking, but I'm not 100% sure. Seems like with a smokehouse you smoke a lot longer and at lower temps than you do with a smoker that you buy in the store.

[JD]

My parents' smokehouse is log chinked with wood chunks and rocks between the logs and mortar on each side (old style chinking). Been there at least 100 years.

JD