People have been smoking there meats or other products for centuries, possibly as long as mankind has been alive. Smoking was originally used for fish, its primary function was believed to have been to keep flies away from the drying meat.
Despite our primitive understanding of the fly reproduction cycle, we still figured out that flies make stuff rot… Rotting was bad… And flies didn’t like smoke. This later lead to the preservation of many different kinds of meat through smoking.. click the link below to see how you can make your self one of these double barren smoker out of old steel drums.
