MEAT AND OTHER FOOD SMOKER

A smoker for meats and other foods, belonging to the technical sector of barbecues and similar, of horizontal type, with displaced furnace and direct flow or vertical type smokers, is formed: by a smoking chamber and a furnace. The smoking chamber is formed by: a dividing plate; a lower chamber arranged in communication with the furnace; a smoking chamber itself; passages provided in the dividing plate through which the heated gases are fed into the smoking chamber itself; a set of grates disposed in different levels; and a chimney; the lower chamber is constituted by a plenum box, which maintains the static pressure of the heated gases homogeneous in its interior; the passages include alignments of deflector openings provided on the opposite sides of the dividing plate, selected to increase the speed with the formation of vortices and direct the heated gas fed into the smoking chamber itself.