Patent ID: RE39365

Claim:
A compact smoking oven, comprising a box-shaped housing having a peripheral wall composed of comprising two wall portions spaced from one another and including an inner wall portion provided with a plurality of throughgoing openings and an outer wall portion; a container for accommodating wooden chips and having at least one wall provided with a plurality of openings; means for heating said container so that when said container is heated, wooden chips inside said container are heated to produce a smoke, said smoke enters a space between said inner wall portion and said outer wall portion of said peripheral wall and exits said space through said openings of said inner wall portion into an interior of said inner wall portion of said peripheral wall; means for holding a food product to be smoked by said smoke; and means for cooling said housing, said housing having an upper compartment separated from an interior of said housing by an upper wall, said cooling means being located in said upper compartment and directing cool air toward said upper wall so as to cool said upper wall.