DE102015013382A1 - Smoker arrangement for barbecue grills - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an incense arrangement for barbecue grills with a metal container (2), in which a planing material (10) made of hardwood is included.

Description

Technical area

The present invention relates to a smoking arrangement for barbecue grills, in particular a container filled with smoking material and prefabricated container.

background

The smoking of grill food by means of a barbecue grill is growing in popularity. Incense chips made of wood are typically added to the cooking space of the barbecue grill. The smoking chips tend to smoke under the temperature prevailing in the cooking chamber and give the food to be grilled a corresponding flavor.

From the US 6 059 849 A is a barbecue smoker device for producing flavored smoke known. This has a metal box with a removable closure which hermetically seals the box. Inside the can are pre-watered wood chips, which were filled into the can under vacuum conditions. The provision of pre-soaked wood chips in a vacuum sealed can sometimes results in mold, especially if the can has been stored for a relatively long period of time. Furthermore, such pre-soaked and sealed chips often show a black coloration, they are hardly usable in such situation as smoking material.

The use of a can with a cover designed as Abziehlasche also carries a certain risk of injury, since the exposed when removed cover opening boundary is usually sharp.

Furthermore, it should be noted that all of the smoking fumigations commercially available incense material is present only in the form of wood chips. Common smoker chips are recognizable cut off vertically or obliquely to the grain of a source material or chopped. This type of production leads to relatively massive pieces of wood, which have in all spatial directions, that is both in the direction of the grain and perpendicular to each outer dimensions or material thicknesses at least millimeter or even centimeter range. For the smoking process and the desired smoke development, it is usually necessary when using such wood chips, temporally upstream of the smoking process to moisten the wood chips or even to water.

Due to the relatively high moisture content of the chips, it then takes a relatively long time in the subsequent cooking or smoking process until a desired smoke development takes place. Due to the need for watering and the time period to be provided for this purpose, the end user must coordinate the periods of time required for watering and smoking, as well as a timed sequence of the individual process steps, well and sometimes quite laboriously. If, for example, one and the same barbecue grill, for example a charcoal grill, are used once in a short period of time for conventional and once for smoking grilling, retrofitting a barbeque already containing embers may prove to be extremely complex and dangerous because of the risk of burns which can not be ruled out.

The present invention is based on the object to provide a not only in terms of their handling, but also in terms of smoke development improved smoking arrangement for barbecue grills. This should allow a particularly simple and rapid handling and be used in particular without tedious preparations directly for the smoking of Grillgut. Furthermore, the smoking arrangement should be distinguished by a particularly user-friendly and safe handling.

Invention and advantageous effects

This object is achieved with a smoking arrangement according to the independent claim 1, wherein advantageous embodiments are each the subject of dependent claims.

In that regard, an incense arrangement is provided for barbecue grills. This has a metal container in which a planed hardwood is included. The metal container, in particular its interior, is essentially filled exclusively with the planed material. The metal container can in particular be completely filled with planed material. Experiments have shown that the planing material actually not yet used for smoking in combination with a metal container, especially for barbecue smoking offers particular advantages.

Planing material is different than the previously described wood chips along the grain of a starting material, such as separated from a square timber or planed. Planed material, which consists mainly of wood shavings, has due to the planing process a curled or curly structure. It has a particularly thin chip thickness or material thickness, typically in the submillimeter range. By the extent particularly thin-walled shape of the individual chip and The chips formed therefrom can already be produced at comparatively lower temperatures a significant smoke formation.

The planed material is also to be used exclusively with the metal container, since otherwise it would burn, for example, in direct contact with the embers of a charcoal grill or with the flame of a gas grill. The particularly low chip strength of the planing product, d. H. the thickness of the respective chip radially to its curling or curling form, causes even at comparatively low temperatures acting on the container, a significant amount of smoke takes place.

The use of a metal container, in particular of a steel sheet is particularly well suited for grill smoking with the aid of gas grills. The gas grill, in particular its gas outlet openings are protected in this way against contamination by consumed smoking material. On the other hand, the planing material contained in it can be heated in a particularly uniform and homogeneous manner to a required smoking temperature via the metal container. In the case of a metal container made of a sheet steel, smoke pollutants unlike aluminum shells or aluminum containers are not released during the smoking process.

In particular, the smoke point can be comparatively low, as a result of which the smoke can have a particularly low tar content, which proves advantageous in terms of health aspects. In addition, due to the comparatively low smoke point, a particularly rapid smoke development can take place as soon as the metal container is placed in the cooking or grilling area of the barbecue grill. Furthermore, by exclusively or almost exclusively using planed material, watering of the smoking material can be completely eliminated. This simplifies the handling of the smoking arrangement. The end user can use the smoker arrangement directly and ready for the smoke development by means of a barbeque grill without special preparations.

The provision of planing material in the metal container is also beneficial for the spread of smoke. Compared to Sägemehlartigem smoking the smoke forming in the metal container can expand relatively unhindered by the structure of the planing material and thus in the cooking of the barbecue grill. Furthermore, the metal container, which in and of itself is completely closed except for a smoke opening, can regulate an air supply that is especially advantageous for the development of smoke. Finally, over a relatively large temperature range in the cooking chamber of the barbecue, a consistently good and sufficient for the smoking process smoke development of the Räucheranordnung be provided.

According to a further embodiment, the container has a closed bottom. With the bottom of the container can be placed anywhere in the space of the barbecue grill. The smoker arrangement is equally suitable for gas grills, electric grills and charcoal grills. The container is only to be near, typically placed above a heat source of the barbecue grill. The planed material contained in the metal container is protected by the closed bottom from direct action of the heat source. The planing material learns only indirectly, by heating the metal floor required for the smoking process thermal energy. The closed bottom of the metal container thus simultaneously acts as a heat or heat regulator for the planed material received in the container.

According to a further embodiment, the container further comprises a closed side wall structure. The container may in particular have a basic cylindrical geometry with an approximately circular bottom and a cylindrical side wall structure. Other geometries, such as, for example, a cross-sectionally oval cylinder geometry as well as a cuboid and thus rectangular geometry of the container are also conceivable. The sidewall structure encloses the floor in the circumferential direction. Both the side wall structure and the bottom are closed, that is formed without perforation.

The air supply required for the smoking process and for the smoldering of the planing material takes place exclusively via a feed opening facing away from the bottom, via which the planed material can be fed to the metal container. The closed side wall structure and the closed bottom also cause a throttling of the air supply into the interior of the container filled with planing material.

According to a further embodiment, the container has a closable by means of a removable lid smoke opening. The lid of the metal container fulfills at least two functions. A lid closing the metal container holds the planing material inside the container and prevents uncontrolled pouring out of the planing product from the container. This is of great advantage, in particular for transport purposes, until immediately before the application of the smoking arrangement. The removed lid finally releases a smoke opening at the same time. Through the smoke opening, the smoke generated by the planed material can escape. Similarly, via the smoke opening, which also acts as a feed opening, which for the Smoking process required air are supplied to the planed material.

The lid can be fastened according to a further embodiment by clamping or form-fitting manner on the container. It can, for example, by means of individual embossing positively engage with a beaded edge of the side wall structure in engagement. Since the planed material is available in dry or dried form in the metal holder, a hermetic closure can be waived confidently. The connection of container and lid can be air or gas permeable. This allows a particularly simple and cost-effective production and filling of the container.

According to a further embodiment, the smoke opening is formed by a bottom edge facing away from the upper side wall structure. The side wall structure may have a curl at its upper edge, which in this respect represents a crowned and therefore round edge at which cuts can scarcely or not occur at all. The flanging at the upper edge of the side wall structure may further serve a positive retention of the lid on the side wall structure. It is also conceivable that the cover has a downwardly projecting cover flange, which bears on the outside of the side wall structure by clamping. In this way, the lid can also be frictional or friction on the side wall structure, thus be fixed to the container.

According to a further embodiment, the planing material provided in the metal container has predominantly wood shavings. In the present context, wood chips are understood to mean wood particles which have been separated from the starting material along the grain of the wood, that is, have been planed. The wood shavings are characterized in particular by a predominantly curly or curled structure. Tangentially or in the circumferential direction of individual wood flakes or wood chips, the fiber structure of the starting material is clearly visible. The planing process is always chip removal along the grain or the fiber longitudinal direction of the respective starting material.

It goes without saying that the planed material or the wood shavings are completely free of mineral oils, coatings, wood stains or paints. For the planing-producing machines, in particular for a planing machine in question, it must be ensured that any lubricants of the machine's machining tools in no case come into contact with the wood to be machined or machined, or planed wood.

The planed material consists of hardwood, for example, predominantly made of beech wood. In addition to beech, alder, ash or maple, as well as fruit woods, such as apple, pear or plum trees, as well as mixtures formed therefrom can be used. The planed material is also predominantly or completely bark-free and can, for. B. exclusively from the so-called heartwood of said and eligible hardwoods can be obtained.

According to a further embodiment, more than 50 wt .-%, more than 60 wt .-%, more than 70 wt .-% or more than 80 wt .-% of the planing material in the form of curly or curled chips before. Such a high crimped or curled chip content on the planing material causes a certain porosity of the planing material in the metal container. Depending on the proportion and nature of the curled or crimped shavings on planing material results in a particularly favorable for the development of smoke and smoke flow resistance through the picked up in the metal container planed.

Comparatively large air pockets or gaps between the individual chips lead to a relatively rapid smoke and smoke. The smaller or finer the chips, the slower the smoke will unfold from the metal container. Similarly, the air supply for the smoking process is throttled accordingly. The specific porosity of the planing material to be provided is also dependent on the type of wood and on the material or chip thickness of the wood shavings.

According to a further embodiment, the outer dimensions of a curled planing chip are on average less than 20 mm, less than 15 mm or less than 10 mm. A curled planing chip is therefore relatively small. It is conceivable that a planing chip having an outer dimension of less than 10 mm in each direction in the unwound state has a length which may be 20 mm or more. Perpendicular to the winding or curling direction, the individual wood shavings on average have outside dimensions of less than 20 mm, less than 15 mm or less than 10 mm.

According to a further embodiment, the material or chip thickness of a planing chip is on average less than 1 mm, less than 100 μm or even less than 10 μm. Particularly thin shavings tend to form a particularly strong curls or ruffles, which is advantageous for the porosity of the planing material, in particular for the packing density of the planing material within the metal container.

Thus, according to a further embodiment, it is provided in particular that the planed material, based on the density of the hardwood used in each case has a relative density of 0.05 to 0.1. In other words, the planing material in the metal container only one-twentieth to one-tenth of the weight as a metal container, the gapless or completely filling hardwood piece. With identical weight of planing material and starting hardwood, the planed material has a factor of 10 to 20 larger volume than the starting hardwood.

If, for example, the metal container has a filling volume of 500 ml, the metal container can, for example, hold 25 to 35 g of beech-wood planed material. It is provided in particular that the planed material is unpressed, so to speak filled as loose bulk material in the metal container. Due to the transport to the end user and associated vibrations and vibrations, a slight further compression of the planing material may occur. For the smoking process, however, this is not detrimental.

According to a further embodiment, the planed material not only wood shavings, but due to the production and a sawdust-like fines on. However, this is less than 10 wt .-%, less than 5 wt .-% or even less than 1 wt .-% of the planing material.

The sawdust-like fines are in particular after being filled into the metal container and a subsequent transport to the end user usually at the bottom of the container. Since the fines content compared to the chipboard chips present in a slightly higher smoke point, its location in the vicinity of the heat source, namely at the bottom of the metal container is only an advantage.

Brief description of the figures

Other objects, features and advantageous embodiments of the smoking arrangement will be explained in the following description of an embodiment with reference to FIGS. Hereby show:

1 a schematic representation of the filled with planing smoker arrangement with the lid removed,

2 an enlarged view of the planing material,

3 a side view of the smoking arrangement with the lid and

4 a schematic sketch of a barbecue equipped with a smoker arrangement.

Detailed description.

The in the 1 and 3 illustrated smoking arrangement 1 has a metal container 2 on, by means of a lid 3 is closable. The metal container 2 has one from a floor 4 and a sidewall structure 6 limited interior space with planed material 10 is filled. The container 2 has in the present case a cylindrical basic geometry. The floor 4 is a circular disk and the sidewall structure 6 has a cylindrical shell shape.

At one the bottom 4 opposite upper margin 7 has the sidewall structure 6 an inwardly or outwardly directed curl. As a result, the top edge 7 comparatively spherical, definitely not sharp-edged. The lid 3 has one with the ground 4 Corresponding basic geometry, in this case an approximately circular flat lid surface 15 on, on whose outer boundary a downwardly projecting cover flange 13 is formed.

In the closed configuration, as in 3 is shown, the cover flange comes 13 to lie radially outside the side wall structure. For closing the container 2 can the lid 3 either clamped or form-fitting with the sidewall structure 6 in operative connection. The metal container is typically made of a steel sheet. It is uncoated and unpainted, so that no harmful gases, vapors or the like arise for use in a barbecue.

The smoke arrangement according to the invention is particularly suitable for grilling the grill by means of a gas grill. On the one hand, the gas grill is through the metal container 2 protected against contamination. On the other hand, the metal container causes 2 a particularly uniform homogeneous heating or heating of the planing material received in it 10 , Especially the ground 4 of the metal container 2 can provide an advantageous for the smoking process thermal conductivity. Even with a direct or selective direct heat effect on the container bottom of this can due to its thermal conductivity, the absorbed thermal energy quite evenly and homogeneously contained in the container planed 10 submit.

The edge 7 the sidewall structure 6 further defines a smoke opening 5 through which the inside of the container 2 resulting smoke in the oven 22 the barbecue grill 20 can escape. At the same time the smoke opening acts 5 also as a feed opening for the oxygen necessary for the smoking process. The planed material 10 predominantly shows wood shavings of a hardwood, in particular beech wood shavings. The wood shavings are predominantly, that is with more than 50 wt .-%, more than 60 wt .-%, more than 70 wt .-% or more than 80 wt .-% in the form of curly or curled chips before.

In 2 is such chips 12 shown schematically and enlarged. The outer dimensions of a planing chip 14 are on average less than 20 mm, less than 15 mm or less than 10 mm. This concerns the outer dimensions of a curly or curled planing chip 14 , In a developed or de-crimped configuration, individual chips can also be longer than 10 mm or 20 mm. The material thickness or chip thickness of the wood shavings is on average less than 1 mm, less than 100 microns or even less than 10 microns. The shavings are characterized by the fact that each individual chip has been cut or shaved along the grain or grain of the original hardwood. As a result of this, a curly or curled structure of the planing material is produced as a result of production.

Thanks to the curled or curled structure of the planing material, a particularly low smoke point can be achieved. Already at relatively low temperatures sets in the planed smoke. At a low smoke point, for example below 300 ° C, especially below 250 ° C or below 200 ° C, the smoke is very low tar, which is for the smoking process under health and visual aspects of particular advantage. In addition, especially due to the low material or chip strength already a short time after placing the opened smokehouse in the grill or cooking chamber 22 the barbecue grill 20 a significant amount of smoke will take place.

Furthermore, a watering the planing material 10 Not required before smoking. The planed material 10 is in particular free from any additives or residues from material processing. It is especially free of any mineral oils or hydrocarbons.

The crimped or curled structure of the planing material also causes a just sufficient for the smoking process air supply from above through the planing material 10 itself. Typically, smoke begins near the highest temperature exposed soil 4 of the container 2 , The smoking process and the smoldering of the slicer 10 required air supply takes place through the smoke opening 5 and thus through the same opening, through which the resulting smoke from the metal container 2 in the oven 22 the barbecue grill 20 can escape.

Related to the gross density of the original hardwood has the planing material 10 a relative density of 0.05 to 0.1. In other words, the hardwood experiences through the transfer into the planing material 10 an increase in volume between a factor of 10 to 20. In relation to beech wood with a residual moisture of less than 20%, the approximately 500 ml amounting inner volume of the metal container 2 in about 25 to 35 g of planed material 10 take up. The planed material 10 is in the form of a loose fill in the metal container 2 contain. Only by gently shaking a certain compression can take place. However, the intact curly or curled chips, which have some elasticity, prevent over-compacting due to shaking or vibrating. In any case, there is the planing material 10 in an unpressed state inside the metal container 2 ,

The application of the smoking arrangement 1 is very simple. This is the example of a charcoal barbecue grill 20 in 4 clarified. The barbecue grill 20 , shown here in the form of a ball grill, has a removable lid 28 on. In the oven 22 is a roughly horizontally oriented grill 30 on which the grilled food 24 to place. Below the grill 30 a fuel is provided, which required for the grilling process embers 26 provides. For the smoking process is only the lid 3 of the metal container 2 to take off and the metal container thus opened 2 is with the planing material contained therein 10 next to the barbecue 24 in a particularly simple manner only on the grill 30 to place.

The placement of the smoke arrangement 1 can be before or during the cooking process for the grilled food 24 in the oven 22 the barbecue grill 20 be made. Thanks to the positive or non-positive fit on the side wall structure 6 held lid 3 the smoking arrangement can be used several times. If the smoking process prematurely, that is before the end of the cooking process 24 may end once, by placing another smoke arrangement 1 or by replacing a smoking arrangement 1 The smoking process will be continued almost seamlessly. The metal container 2 the smoking arrangement 1 is in particular refillable. That for the smokehouse 1 planing material to be used 10 can be offered reasonably priced in the form of sacks or refill packs.

In 1 is also an insert lid 16 shown lying on top of the planing material 10 in the smoking arrangement 1 , especially in the metal container 2 can be arranged. The insert lid 16 can be made of paper or cardboard, for example. Its outer periphery may be the inner circumference of the sidewall structure 6 correspond so that it closes the container interior at the top. Of the inserting cover 16 can with a designed as a passage opening finger hole 18 be provided. Furthermore, the insert lid 16 be provided with a pull tab, by means of which the exact fit in the metal container 2 inserted insert lid 16 especially easy to handle and out of the metal container 2 is removable. The finger hole 18 can in the manner of a peripheral recess of the insertion lid 16 be designed. It can have a semicircle or pitch circle. Preferably has the finger hole 18 a comparatively small cross-sectional area so little or no planing material 10 through the finger hole 18 may fall out if the smokehouse 1 should be shaken or rotated during transport.

The insert lid 16 serves as protection for the metal container 2 picked planed material 10 , In particular, the insert lid should 16 inadvertent spillage and escape of planed material 10 when opening the metal container 2 prevent. The insert lid 16 can also with an instruction manual 19 be provided. The insert lid 16 can in particular with an instruction manual 19 be printed. In this way, a printing of the metal container 2 completely superfluous, so that this example, only provided with a removable band, but otherwise completely uncoated and can be configured without adhesive.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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Räucheranordnung

2

metal containers

3

cover

4

ground

5

smoke opening

6

Sidewall structure

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edge

10

Hobelgut

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Excelsior

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cover flange

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chip

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cover surface

16

inserting cover

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finger hole

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instructions

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Barbecue grill

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oven

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grilled food

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glow

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cover

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grill

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Cited patent literature

• US 6059849 A [0003]

Claims (11)

Smoker arrangement for barbecue grills with a metal container ( 2 ), in which a planed material ( 10 ) is made of hardwood. Smoker assembly according to claim 1, wherein the container ( 2 ) a closed floor ( 4 ) having. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the container ( 2 ) a closed sidewall structure ( 6 ) having. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the container ( 2 ) one by means of a removable lid ( 3 ) closable smoke opening ( 5 ) having. Smoker arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the smoke opening ( 5 ) from one of the ground ( 4 ) facing away from the upper edge ( 7 ) of the sidewall structure ( 6 ) is formed. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the planing material ( 10 ) mainly wood shavings ( 12 ) having. Smoker arrangement according to claim 6, wherein more than 50 wt .-%, more than 60 wt .-%, more than 70% wt .-% or more than 80 wt .-% of the planing material ( 10 ) in the form of curly or curled chips ( 14 ) is present. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the outer dimensions of a curled plow ( 14 ) are on average less than 20 mm, less than 15 mm or less than 10 mm. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the material thickness or chip thickness of a planing chip ( 14 ) is on average less than 1 mm, less than 100 microns or less than 10 microns. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the planing material ( 10 ) relative to the density of the hardwood has a relative density of 0.05 to 0.1. Smoker arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the planing material ( 10 ) has a sawdusty fines content of less than 10% by weight or less than 5% by weight.

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