Projects
Equipment for drying, curing and smoking, drawn as editable 3D models. Enter the timber you can buy and the parts, cuts and shopping list follow.
- ResearchedSource report written; no dimensioned model yet.
- Cheese in a box in a fridge: what a lidded ripening box can and cannot do · Boxes and incubators · Modern and globalArticle
A lidded box keeps moisture around a ripening cheese but cannot change the refrigerator’s temperature. Cornell’s Camembert lesson, the food-safety limits, and the humidity nobody has measured.
- A slow cooker as a small dairy · Appliance conversions · Home kitchensArticle
A slow cooker can heat milk for mozzarella, paneer, ricotta, mascarpone, quark and yogurt, but its heavy crock keeps heating after it is switched off. This is what each fresh cheese needs from it.
- Cheese in the brewhouse: a brewing kettle as water jacket, hot-water tank and whey cooker · Appliance conversions · Home kitchensArticle
A home brewing kettle can hold a cheese pot in hot water, supply wash water and reheat whey. This is what two brewer manuals allow, and which cheeses show each job.
- Heat-pump dehumidification drying · Drying, curing and ripening chambers · Modern and globalArticle
Heat-pump dehumidification dries mushrooms with recirculated, dehumidified air rather than hot dry air. In one shiitake study it used the least energy of three methods, but it shrank the mushrooms more than hot-air drying.
Solar food dryer
An unpowered timber dryer: a sloped, glazed collector warms air that rises through screened trays in a cabinet and leaves through a screened vent.
Original design680 mm × 1,881 mm × 2,098 mm67 parts15 timber lengths
Cider and fruit press
A rack-and-cloth press: hardwood racks and cloth-wrapped cheeses of milled fruit in a juice tray, pressed by a bottle jack in a bolted timber frame.
Original design844 mm × 804 mm × 1,298 mm114 parts20 timber lengths
Bread proofing cabinet
A tall insulated cabinet sized from your sheet pans and bannetons, with a window in the door, a heater, water pan and fan inside and a controller outside.
Original design682 mm × 514 mm × 1,214 mm92 parts11 timber lengths
Koji and tempeh incubator
An insulated plywood cabinet sized from your trays, with runners, a water pan, and spaces for a heater, fan and controller.
Original design752 mm × 505 mm × 662 mm39 parts3 timber lengths
Cheese cave from a fridge
A measured fridge with removable board shelves, a humidifier, fan and sensor, switched by a controller mounted outside.
Original design670 mm × 1,250 mm × 1,450 mm46 parts7 timber lengths
Fermentation chamber from a fridge
A fridge you measure, with a timber platform level with the compressor step, a spill tray, a heater and fan, and a controller outside with its probe on the fermenter.
Original design660 mm × 1,250 mm × 1,450 mm30 parts2 timber lengths
Kegerator from an upright fridge
A fridge you already have, with taps through the door, kegs and CO2 inside and a temperature controller.
Original design600 mm × 764 mm × 1,570 mm41 parts
Curing chamber from a fridge
A measured fridge with its shelves out and hanging bars for salami and whole cured meat, a humidifier, fan and sensor, switched by a controller mounted outside.
Original design670 mm × 1,250 mm × 1,450 mm34 parts7 timber lengths
- Measured dehydrator retrofit · Appliance conversions · Modern and globalEquipment page
Independent temperature logging added to a bought food dehydrator, leaving its own heater, fan, thermostat and protections as they are. A monitoring method, not a rewiring plan.
- Temaiku milkfish tray smoker · Smokehouses and smokers · Tarawa, KiribatiArticle
Stacked-tray installation from an FAO trial, with its reported sizes and shortcomings.
- Moquém rack · Smokehouses and smokers · Brazil and the GuianasArticle
Open timber rack with food supports above the fire. Forms vary by community; no universal geometry.
- Fogón chilote · Smokehouses and smokers · Chiloé, ChileArticle
Household hearth with a hood and an overhead processing zone. No surveyed dimensions.
- Para-para smoking rack · Smokehouses and smokers · Riau, Indonesia
Raised wood or rattan rack and shelter around a direct smoke path. No dimensions in the sources.
- Iburigakko smoking hut · Smokehouses and smokers · Akita, JapanArticle
Radish hung in a dedicated hut and smoke-dried before pickling. Hut measurements are unknown.
- Scottish fish-smoking kiln · Smokehouses and smokers · ScotlandArticle
Tall natural-draught kiln, or a compact barrel smoker; one architecture per model.
- Savusauna smoke room · Smokehouses and smokers · FinlandArticle
Log smoke room with a stove and overhead hanging supports. A room and fire design, not a cabinet.
- Banda smoking platform · Smokehouses and smokers · West AfricaArticle
Raised smoking platform over a combustion bed; one documented site variant still has to be chosen.
- Yup’ik fish-camp smokehouse · Smokehouses and smokers · Alaska, United States
Seasonal family structure with movable fish supports. Measurements and community permission remain open.
- Being modelledGeometry drawn; an independent review found open issues.
- Ahotor oven · Smokehouses and smokers · Ghana
Modified combustion path with fat collection. Source dimensions conflict; the official manual is unavailable.
- FTT-Thiaroye fish smoker · Smokehouses and smokers · SenegalArticle
Separate smoke generator, ember bed and fat tray under stacked trays.
- LSU timber smokehouse · Smokehouses and smokers · Louisiana, United States
Framed 6 × 8 ft outbuilding. The source drawing is conceptual, so joints and seams are a proposed adaptation.
Chest freezer kegerator collar
A timber collar between a chest freezer and its lid, with taps through the front board and room for kegs and a CO2 cylinder.
Original design1,130 mm × 793 mm × 1,065 mm51 parts2 timber lengths
Drum smoker
A new, unlined 55-gallon steel drum with pipe intakes at the base, a charcoal basket on bolt legs, cooking grates on bolts, hanging rods and a lid with exhaust holes.
Home builds, United States644 mm × 676 mm × 900 mm37 parts2 bar lengths
Cold-smoking cabinet
A tall timber cabinet on legs around a bought maze smoke generator, with hanging rods, mesh shelves, a drip tray and sliding vents.
Original design720 mm × 641 mm × 1,852 mm104 parts35 timber lengths
Chorkor tray smoker, Ada-Foah
A clay combustion base with two fire openings, removable stacked mesh trays and a chimney cover.
Ghana1,600 mm × 1,120 mm × 2,321 mm49 parts24 timber lengths
Biltong box
An upright plywood box with hanging dowels, a top fan, a guarded heat source and a drip tray, switched by a controller outside.
Original design543 mm × 371 mm × 901 mm34 parts6 timber lengths
Waters–Bond remote-firebox smoker
A plywood chamber, removable racks and tray, with a separate drum connected by a rising smoke duct.
United States, 19601,442 mm × 3,692 mm × 2,216 mm67 parts20 timber lengths
UConn boarded smokehouse
A compact timber enclosure with a sloping roof, boarded door and four removable shelves.
Connecticut, United States724 mm × 724 mm × 1,829 mm99 parts36 timber lengths
Screened drying cabinet
An unpowered cabinet with screened sides, hanging rails and a removable tray.
Original design600 mm × 450 mm × 924 mm197 parts6 timber lengths
Every model is a dimensioned draft from a documented source or an original proposal. None has been built, load-tested or reviewed for fire and food safety.
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