Fire, metal and meat: do-it-yourself grill

Brazier do it yourself

A real picnic in nature is most often associated with gatherings around the fire and barbecue. It is the process of cooking meat on coals that gives the rest with friends the soulfulness and solemnity of the moment. Most often, men are involved in the action, claiming that "the barbecue does not tolerate female hands." Let us not challenge their right to cook meat from the most ancient times.

The birth of fragrant pieces in the smoke is a kind of mystery that can melt the heart of any unapproachable beauty, and if the brazier is also made by hand, then the barbecue becomes a real culinary masterpiece.

Delicious kebab. Success factors

The success of a self-made barbecue on the grill depends on several factors:

Properly marinated meat. No need to get carried away with ultra-modern recipes using mayonnaise, fermented milk products and sauces. The classic kebab is wine or vinegar, onions, parsley and spices. And other marinades are good only for the most tender and soft pieces.

The organic acids found in vinegar and parsley are best for successfully denaturing meat. In this case, denaturation means the splitting of protein molecules to a state most suitable for digestion by our body. In addition, the acidic environment prevents fire from creating harmful carcinogenic compounds in food.

Pieces of meat for barbecue, which are planned to be cooked on the grill with your own hands, should be cubes with sides of at least 4-5 cm.This will allow them not to dry out, be juicy and soft.

"The right brazier", made by hand. The dimensions of the appliance must be sufficient to accommodate the skewers with sufficient clearances.

As a rule, the length of the barbecue is taken equal to the length of the skewers minus 10-15 cm. The width can be calculated from the condition that one skewer must have at least 80 mm of space. The distance to the coals should be no more than 100 mm, and the depth of the fire should be up to 200-250 mm, with slots for skewers along its long side.

Wall thickness - the bigger, the better. And there is no need to clean off the soot from their inner surface, this is a source of infrared rays, without which you will simply get meat baked on a fire. In order for the shish kebab to be not only a tasty, but also a healthy dish, the holes for the air flow for the handmade barbecue should be in the bottom, as in the numerous photos of devices that are filled with specialized sites.

When air passes through the coals from the bottom up, all oxygen will burn out in it and it will be possible to avoid harmful oxidation of food enzymes. With the lateral arrangement of the blowing holes, oxygen will remain in the outgoing stream, which means that the kebab will not be so healthy.

"Fragrant" coals. Analyze an archive of home videos of eating a barbecue, cooked on the grill with your own hands. Do you notice that the broadest smiles of those present are present precisely during the tasting of dishes cooked on wood from fruit trees? It is difficult to overestimate the fairness of this joke - firewood from cherries, apricots, apple trees, pears, etc. will give the dish a unique taste and aroma.

We start making the barbecue. On the network you can find drawings and photos necessary in order to make a brazier of any type with your own hands - from simple metal to brick or stone.Consider all designs, gradually moving from the simplest - from sheet metal, to more complex ones, such as a brazier, a smokehouse, made by hand, or a stone brazier-oven.

How to choose a barbecue oven

Most people consider a barbecue grill and a barbecue roaster to be exactly the same in design and principle of operation. In most cases, for self-made metal structures, this is an absolutely true statement. Masters do not pay much attention to the intricacies of arranging barbecue grills, while for true connoisseurs and admirers, all the nuances and secrets of the designs of "branded" braziers are extremely important.

How a barbecue oven differs from a barbecue box

There are two fundamental differences.

Firstly, despite the similar principle of operation and the general structure, the brazier and barbecue brazier in the operation of the combustion part are slightly different. Accordingly, the heat generated has a different effect on the meat or fish being cooked, resulting in a different final effect. In the grill, the products are heated by the products of wood combustion and partly by the heat of hot coals. In a barbecue, the main heating and cooking is due to radiation, since the flow of air to the burning surface is much less organized and directed to the inside.

Secondly, in a barbecue, the process of heating the product is much softer, the bulk of the heat is spent on heating metal, coal, and the use of a grate allows cold air to flow around and simultaneously cool the fried surface. What this means for the process of cooking meat can only be explained by a chef who specializes in baking meat and fish dishes. Moisture and grease remain inside the product and are not carried away by the hot gas stream. For barbecue, cooking a juicy steak on a metal grate is not particularly difficult; on the grill, to obtain a similar result, the product will need to be wrapped in metal foil.

The classic barbecue brazier design involves a metal bowl in which charcoal is kindled and smoldered. In the old versions of the barbecue, instead of coal, ordinary firewood was used, which was piled up in a mountain in a metal container and burned to the state of coal. As soon as the volume of burning coal filled the metal container to the brim, a metal grate or just a few steel rods was installed, and the cooking process began.

To get a similar effect in the grill, skewers with meat have to be constantly turned over and try very hard not to dry out the baked product, and at the same time thoroughly fry it.

BBQ Roaster Design

A classic barbecue device involves the use of a round bowl made of metal or stone, over which a metal grate is installed, it is better to choose a nickel-plated one, but you can also use a regular one, welded from thick steel wire. Modern designs of metal barbecue grills, as in the photo, have special heating glasses in the bottom of the cauldron.

The air entering through the glass burns part of the coal, after which the combustion products flow along the metal walls and are removed to the outside. Thus, it is possible to maintain a high temperature of coals and containers without tiresome fanning with a metal fan, as is the case with a brazier.

There are no trifles in a metal barbecue device, each structural element serves its own purpose. Before choosing drawings of a barbecue grill for building with your own hands, pay attention to two main features of a metal structure:

1. In the design of the brazier, the metal grate should have an adjustable installation height, from the highest position at the cut level of the cauldron to the lowest - 4-5 cm below the edge of the container;
2. Connoisseurs and connoisseurs of barbecue advise to equip the capacity of the brazier with a removable protective side covering the leeward part of the hearth, which avoids splashes of fat, smoke and coals on hands and clothes;
3. A hot barbecue roaster must be safe in the first place, so the heavier and more stable the container of hot coals, the less chance of burns.

For your information! To avoid burns, the side surfaces of rectangular barbecue grills are often lined with metal screens.

In exclusive versions, the furnace structure is installed on a steel or ceramic base, anchored to the ground. For mobile and portable structures, the support legs of the furnace are fixed to the ground using special metal pegs.

Benefits of metal structures

The most important advantage of barbecues made of metal is their low cost. Even if you buy metal sheets, corners, bars and pipes necessary for the job, the cost of materials will be significantly lower than the finished product from the store. And if you take into account that unnecessary metal rubbish in the form of barrels, cylinders, pieces of sheet metal and scraps of corners will fit for such a structure, then the price of the finished product will approach zero.

The second indisputable advantage is ease of manufacture. Anyone who has a slightest degree in welding will be able to repeat the most complex design. Thirdly, such barbecues can be easily installed in a new place or taken with you to a picnic. Fourth, a sufficient thickness of sheet metal will allow the grill to serve for a long time. And fifth, the pleasure of the result. Having created a real masterpiece from scrap metal, you can proudly recall this at every opportunity.

Barbecues with insufficient wall thickness suffer from disadvantages - they quickly burn out, they can be driven when overheated, and they can rust from rain and moisture.

How to make a barbecue yourself

Choosing a metal

When choosing a material for making a barbecue with your own hands, metal is most often preferred.

This choice is quite justified, since this material has a number of advantages:

• the design has mobility, has the ability to assemble and disassemble if necessary;
• easy care of the product;
• comfortable and safe operation of the device;
• the simplicity of the design allows you to make it yourself;
• the cost of a metal barbecue is at an affordable level.

Original barbecue made of metal
The most suitable material for barbecues is recognized by all experts to be sheet steel with a minimum thickness of 3 mm. DIY enthusiasts say that a great barbecue is obtained using an old gas cylinder. The metal of this vessel is of sufficient thickness, which ensures the strength and durability of the structure. It is even easier to make a barbecue from a barrel, since the thickness of the metal is such that it is easy to work with it.

Drawing of the future barbecue

The simplicity of the design of the barbecue made of metal does not mean that there is no need to draw up a drawing. The presence of even an elementary diagram of a future product will greatly facilitate its manufacture. The drawing will allow you to calculate the need for the material, carry out its correct cutting and make assembly without errors.

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There are many options for metal barbecues. Simpler designs do not require special tools and skills. In complex products, you cannot do without welding. From a standard cooking device, you can create a multifunctional barbecue with an original design.

Construction welding and finished product processing

The method of assembling the barbecue with your own hands should be decided even during the marking process.If welding is provided for the manufacture of a product, then it is necessary to cut the metal in accordance with the drawing. A grinder is used to cut the material. If it is not possible to use a welding machine, then during cutting, an overlap is made on each side, which is further folded, which achieves the joining of structural parts. The fixation of the barbecue elements takes place by means of a bolted connection.

Finished construction

At the end, the legs are screwed on, which will allow you to quickly disassemble and prepare the barbecue for transportation during operation. To give the product an aesthetic appearance, it is dyed.

Do-it-yourself sheet metal brazier

A brazier made of metal with your own hands will serve you faithfully for many years only if the thickness of the sheet is sufficient and the metal can withstand high temperatures without the risk of burning out. In addition, a product with a thickness of 4-5 mm will never lead, which often suffers from structures welded from roofing sheets. Most often, a device with a wall thickness of 1-2 mm is needed for outdoor trips. Its weight is much less, and a self-made brazier of a collapsible design, the drawings of which are on the network, are also more convenient to transport.

Before starting work, you need to stock up on a sufficient amount of sheet metal 2-4 mm thick, a corner with a shelf width of 40 mm, a welding machine and an angle grinder, an electric drill with drills, a ruler, a marker and a construction square. For the manufacture of legs, you need to prepare a pipe or square with a cross section of 400 mm2. The work on the manufacture of a stationary barbecue with your own hands from sheet metal is performed in the following sequence:

• Transfer the drawing to a metal sheet and cut out the blanks with the help of a grinder. In the case of using a material with a thickness of 2 mm, a drawing is applied in the form of a scan, and then the workpiece is bent at right angles along the line of abutment of the side walls to the bottom.

We measure

Cut out the required format

Clean the edges of the bottom sheet

Measurements again

We bend the sheets and grab

• With the help of a square, the side walls are seized by welding perpendicular to the bottom, and then the seams are welded along the entire abutment line.

Welding is required to fix the sheets

We take the welding machine

We weld the joints

Welding

We clean the seams

• With a drill with a diameter of at least 12 mm, holes are drilled for air flow in the lower part of the side walls or the bottom, depending on which drawings you use when making a brazier with your own hands. If the air flow will be through the bottom, then an additional bottom ash box should be provided.

Cut out part of the box

Next, we weld the partition

And on the lid

We drill holes with a diameter of 13 mm

As a result, we get such holes for traction

• In the long walls, slots should be made for skewers. It is best to alternately cut the grooves 3-5 cm and 6-8 cm long. This will allow you to set the required height of the skewers above the coals.

Fill in water, fill in firewood

Water reached a boil from 10 degrees in 20 minutes

Testing a homemade barbecue

• The next stage will require you to study the photo of braziers on the network or design your own frame in which a brazier assembled by yourself will be installed. Such a frame is mounted from a metal corner and a profile using welded or bolted connections. Its design should provide shelves for dishes, firewood and appliances.
• If you plan to make a brazier with your own hands from metal of small thickness for outdoor trips, the frame drawings can be set aside. You won't need it. It is better to weld short (up to 8 cm) pieces of a metal pipe with a diameter of up to 25 mm in the corners of the bottom, into which pieces of a bar or pipes of a smaller diameter (up to 20 mm) will be inserted as legs.Their length is selected based on their needs.
• Handles from a metal bar should be welded to the top of the short walls of the barbecue for easy portability.
• The roof, installed over the barbecue, will be able to protect the hearth from snow and rain. It is not at all difficult to make it; it is enough to provide side posts and a pair of floors, on which roofing iron of the required size is laid.
• Do not forget to decorate your work with various forged decorative items that can be purchased in the retail network. Next, the product and the frame are cleaned with a metal brush and painted with heat-resistant paint. After it dries, making a barbecue from metal with your own hands is considered complete and they begin to test the barbecue.

In the process of work, you can correct the drawings and make a brazier with your own hands that best meets your technological and aesthetic requirements.

An example of making a simple metal barbecue

The toolbox for this job is obvious:

• Roulette;
• Kern (for filling holes before drilling);
• Bulgarian;
• Electric drill;
• Welding machine.

The first step, from which the manufacture of a homemade barbecue from metal begins, is cutting sheet steel. Having marked on it the dimensions of the bottom and side walls, we cut out all the blanks with a grinder. At the bottom of the long side walls, we need to make holes for air in. To do this, we fix a 6 or 8 mm drill in the drill chuck and make ventilation (the distance between the centers of the holes is 3-4 cm).

A more rational option is not to cut out all the parts separately, but to make cuts in the sheet with a grinder, so that later they can be bent into a volumetric structure.

Having bent the cut sheet into a volumetric box, we boil the joints of the walls. This can be done not with a solid, but with a tack weld, so that the metal is less deformed. For better fixation of the skewers, shallow grooves can be cut on the upper ribs of the long walls.

The next operation is the welding of the legs. Better to make them removable so that the brazier can be transported in the car. For this, some craftsmen use nuts, welding them to the bottom of the bottom. Then threaded rods are screwed into them. We'll do it easier and use the lower parts of the old door hinges. They have a weld-on eyelet and a hole deep enough to fit a steel pin-leg.

Our grill is ready for the first barbecue. All operations for cutting and assembling it will take no more than 2 hours.

Collapsible brazier made of metal

If you do not want to transport an overall all-metal box, then look at a collapsible structure or a diagram of a barbecue for making it yourself. Such products are compact, easy to repeat and durable enough. Plus, you can assemble your portable device in minutes. Drawings and detailed diagrams are presented to your attention that will help you assemble a brazier with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions and photos of the assembly process will help you delve into the smallest details.

For work, you will need the same materials and tools as for the manufacture of a welded one-piece structure. Additionally, you need to stock up on a jigsaw and reinforced scissors for working on metal, as well as a set of dies and fasteners. Are you ready to make a collapsible brazier with your own hands? A step-by-step guide will help you not to overlook anything. Determine the required dimensions of the product, taking into account the dimensions of the trunk of your car. We offer the best option, suitable in most cases:

• Width - 300 mm;
• Length - 600 mm (designed for 6 portions, if necessary, it can be increased at the rate of 100 mm for one skewer);
• The height of the walls is 150 mm, taking into account the distance of 20 mm under the grate;
• The height of the support legs is 600 mm (it is better if the length of the legs coincides with the width of the barbecue, because we need a compact design).

As a rule, any self-made collapsible brazier, the production video of which can be found on the network, has the following elements:

• Metal corner frame;
• Bottom;
• Longitudinal and lateral sides;
• Grate;
• Fasteners.

1. To make a frame from the corners, weld a rectangle of the required size (if you take our barbecue dimensions as a basis, you should weld a frame 230 mm wide and 570 mm long with your own hands). At the corners of the structure, weld 50 mm pieces of water pipe with an outer dimension of 17 mm. In the future, they will be inserted into the support legs.
2. The legs need four pipes with an inner diameter of 18-20 mm. We have already discussed the length of the supports. Plugs can be installed on the other side of the pipes that will stick into the ground.
3. Cut out the bottom and side structural elements from the metal sheet, cut the grooves in them and drill the necessary holes.
4. In accordance with the diagram of a brazier intended for making with your own hands, attach the bottom to the frame with bolts. To do this, drill through holes in them, laying a frame from the corners on the base of the barbecue.
5. As grates, you can use a grate welded from a bar or reinforcement with a diameter of 8-10 mm. Weld 15-20 mm long legs from the same material along the edges of the grate.
6. We fasten the sides on four rods (knitting needles). To do this, cut threads at their ends for wing nuts and weld the rods to the upper and lower sides of the short walls. If it is not possible to weld, fasten the spokes to the sidewalls with horseshoe bolts.
7. Advice: install all bolts from the side of the hearth. This will help keep the threads from sintering.
8. To assemble such a brazier with your own hands, step-by-step instructions are not needed - the process itself is very simple. It is enough to fix the bottom on the legs, and then get into the slots on the long sidewalls with the protruding ends of the spokes and tighten them with wing nuts. After attaching the assembled sidewalls to the base and installing it inside the grate, the brazier can be considered self-assembled. A photo near this grandiose structure will serve as proof of your skill in social networks.

Weight of a stationary structure made of sheet 6

If sheet 6 and corner 25x25x3 are taken as a basis, then making a brazier with your own hands from metal with dimensions of 700x280 mm of meter height will require about 32 kg of metal. However, the final weight of the stationary barbecue structure will be approximately 30 kg due to the perforations in the bottom and around the perimeter of the base.

If a brazier with such dimensions is made from sheet 5, and a profile pipe 20x20x 1.5 or construction fittings of size 12, then the weight of the product will decrease by about 5-6 kg.

Finishing of metal products

After finishing work, the metal brazier must be cleaned of rust with a metal brush, which is placed on a drill or grinder. Welded joints are sanded with an angle grinder.

Further, the outer surfaces of the barbecue are degreased and painted with heat-resistant paints and varnishes. Ornaments in the form of leaves and curls can be ennobled with a patina, giving them the appearance of an antique piece. There is no need to paint the inside of the products. Also, it is not necessary to clean this side from the carbon deposits that appear during the operation of the device. It is believed to have a positive effect on the quality of the food prepared.

DIY brick braziers

A stationary brick brazier, built with your own hands, is good for its solidity - its thick walls keep heat for a long time and allow you to cook a wonderful shish kebab or barbecue with your own hands without the risk of burning tender meat. The structures of brick barbecues are sometimes a single whole with a gazebo and patio, being, in fact, a whole complex that complements the general style of the garden area.Having built such a brick brazier with your own hands, you can cook not only barbecue, but also cook fish soup, shurpa, pilaf, as well as smoke poultry or fish.

Their only drawback stems from the solidity of brick braziers - they occupy a permanent place. They cannot be moved or hidden in the far corner. That is why it is necessary to very carefully approach the choice of a secluded place, having conceived to install an outdoor brazier with your own hands.

Brazier from a barrel or a gas cylinder with your own hands

The decision to weld a brazier from a pipe, barrel or gas cylinder will save material costs and time to work.

The assembly is carried out in the following sequence:

1. The workpiece is laid in a horizontal position, marking is carried out.
2. The upper part equal to half of the circle is cut off from the barrel and the cylinder. The side walls are not touched. A piece of pipe is sawn lengthwise into equal halves.
3. The cut off parts of the products are connected with furniture hinges. The ends of the pipe are plugged with square linings.
4. Legs are outlined and cut out. They are fastened to the ends of the housings.
5. Notches are made along the edges and holes for the blower.

Then the product is decorated and modified. Shelves, stands, hooks and decorations are attached to it.

Getting Started

Like any capital structure, a garden brazier requires the arrangement of the foundation. Best of all, for building a brazier made of bricks with your own hands, a tape-type foundation with a pit depth of up to 0.6 m is suitable. The pit is covered with large crushed stone or stone, and poured with sand-cement mortar. A foundation of rubble stone is laid above the surface of the ground, up to 0.3 m high. The best material for such a fireplace is natural stone or red stove brick. Stone masonry is quite laborious and requires a lot of experience. It is quite possible to build a brazier made of bricks with your own hands, the main thing is to do the work carefully and without haste.

Before starting construction, consider the design of such a barbecue. As a rule, they all represent a firebox with a low chimney. A grate is installed inside the firebox, under which there is an ash pan (one or more), closed by a blower. A niche for storing firewood is arranged under the ash pan.

Are you interested in do-it-yourself barbecues made of bricks? A step-by-step instruction will help you fully understand all the nuances of such structures.

To build a small brick barbecue you will need: 400-450 pcs. bricks, clay, river sand, a pair of grates, a copper hood for an exhaust hood, an angle of 30x40 mm and 40x40 mm, valves or ash pan doors.

1. Choose a place for the stove - in an open space or under a gazebo canopy. The composition of the solution depends on this. For the first option, heat-resistant cement will be needed, and for the second, clay solution will do.
2. Equip the foundation.

1. Lay out a niche measuring 0.75x0.5x0.5 m. Lay a row of bricks above this niche (spoon masonry). Here, use the support from the supplied metal corners. Install the equal-flange corner in the back of the row (in the 8th row of the masonry), and 30x40 in the front, making slots in the front brick of the 9th row for the corner shelf.

The second row is needed to eliminate overheating of roofing material

We form the volume of the furnace on the 3rd row

1. The tenth and eleventh rows are formed by ash pan-blowers measuring 0.12x0.25 m. Doors or valves are also installed here to regulate the air flow. For the installation of the grate in the 11th row of bricks, a quarter is cut off.

In the original, this door was used for the oven.

Fastening the oven door

We fix the wire for fastening the door

1. In the twelfth-thirteenth row, we equip a ledge for skewers.
2. The masonry of the firebox is continued until the 21st row.Further, it is covered in the same way as a niche under the ash pan, only the laying is carried out in half of the brick - butt.

Site for laying the firebox

We lay out the bottom of the firebox

We put the lattice

We erect the walls of the firebox

Covering the woodshed with a sheet of metal

1. From the 24th row, the masonry begins to narrow with ledges. On the sides, each row is reduced by 35 mm, and at the front by 17 mm. The back wall of the smoke box is laid out perpendicular to the base.
2. The last row of a brick barbecue will be the 33rd, with a copper exhaust hood installed by your own hands. A photo of this design will help you navigate how to do this.

We form 6 outlets of smoke from the firebox

Then we close the firebox. Lay the flooring on top

We put heat insulation and cooking floor on top of the firebox.

Chimney masonry. The brazier is ready!

The presented drawings of brick grills will help you build the most suitable structure with your own hands. Photos of such buildings will help you appreciate their design and splendor.

However, building a brazier out of bricks with your own hands is not enough. We still need to install a chimney.

Requirements for chimneys and hoods

In order for the brazier, built by your own hands, not to smoke the gazebo with smoke, hot gases are removed through the chimney. A special smoke hood is designed to collect smoke, which must exceed the dimensions of the metal barbecue by at least 30 cm in each direction. There should be at least 80 cm from the lower section of the hood to the upper section of the chimney. If you make a hood with an adjustable suspension, you can adjust the thickness of the smoke cover over the skewers. This kebab will be much more flavorful.

Do-it-yourself brick braziers should not have any smoke flows and smoke teeth. It is necessary to equip only straight smoke channels with a built-in view to adjust the draft. Otherwise, carelessness in handling the oven may result in waste.

The presented gallery of barbecues, equipped in summer cottages, will allow you to fully experience the beauty of technical and design solutions, feel the aroma of a barbecue being prepared, plunge into the atmosphere of warmth and harmony, and imagine yourself in the circle of your closest and beloved people. And maybe you will be so interested in how to make a brazier that you stock up on tools and start doing magic with your own hands.