Aluminum beer keg as a smoker?

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  • June 8, 2005 at 11:38 am #7560
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    Wasabi,<br />
    As a Fire Officer of 18 years experience, I know that this will end in tears.<br />
    Aluminium is not made to take the radiated heat from a fire.<br />
    It melts at 387C, which is too low for what you are proposing it to do.<br />
    Not only that, it melts suddenly, it has no "Eutectic" state between hard and soft.<br />
    Other side of the coin, it would make a great smoking chamber, provided the heat was kept low and the wood was allowed to simply smoke.<br />
    Rather hard to fabricate into a good smoker though.

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