Automatic spits for barbecues with motor. What does a barbecue with electric drive of skewers look like?

What does the design look like?

Exists a lot of design options, types of drive, design and design of barbecues. Externally, this product is not too different from normal looking barbecue, but the presence of a motor and gear system immediately reveals electric version designs.

When going on a hike or to the country, we often have picnics. God himself ordered to eat delicious food in nature. The highlight of the culinary program at fresh air is always meat. We have known kebabs on skewers since childhood, but if you want to try something more original, cook dinner on a spit!

When reading this word, many of you immediately imagined medieval pictures depicting some hunters or knights roasting a whole bull over a fire. Of course, you won’t be able to roast a bull, but, in principle, you can cook a small pig. Everything will depend on the design of the rotating unit.

It will take you a little time to make a spit and all the accompanying accessories. It is better to prepare the metal bayonet at home. It is recommended to use as a material for it stainless steel, however, in its absence, other types of steel are also suitable. The main thing is, under no circumstances use material made from fusible alloys if you do not want to eat meat cooked under a “hard crust”. Such alloys usually consist of lead, zinc, tin or bismuth.

For greater strength, experienced “summer gardeners” recommend using not one rod, but three. Two of them should be the same length, and the third should be more elongated and thick, so that your craft can be easily supported on the stand. However, if there is no material of the required thickness, you can work with a large number of rods. Raw material should be welded to each other. If you don't have a special welding machine, and you are not going to feed your family with a whole bull, as in medieval pictures, then you can simply twist the rods tightly using pliers.

IN hiking conditions, while hunting or fishing, when there is no metal at hand, you can make a disposable skewer from trees growing in the area. Walnut, maple or alder branches are best suited for this purpose. If you do not want to smoke your food, then you should not take coniferous trees, especially the Christmas tree. Before use, the tree must be peeled. This ancient weapon the girth should be such that the branch does not bend under the weight of the carcass, which is easy to check by planting it.

The thickness of the skewer is determined depending on the weight of the carcass that you intend to cook. For a regular kebab, a thickness of 0.7 centimeters will do. To fry small animals, you will need a rod with a diameter of 0.9-1.1 centimeters. If you are faced with the task of dealing with a small piglet or a newborn lamb, then this parameter should already reach 1.2-1.5 centimeters. It makes no sense to achieve greater thickness, since cooking large animals in field conditions requires special skill. For example, for an adult ram you will need wooden detail with a diameter of 2 centimeters, and experienced hunters claim that such a carcass is difficult to bake from the inside. In this case, it is necessary to make additional spacers, use oak coals, etc.

Let's move on to the length. If you are going to cook food on a grill or other special device, then this parameter is selected for it. Please note that one of the main differences between a spit and a skewer is the presence of a handle with which you will turn the meat. As it, you can, if desired, weld a handle from a door, a bicycle, or simply a bent one to the main device metal pipe. However, you can bend the ends of the rod or just leave a long end. Calculate it so that it is approximately three to four palms wide. Thus, you will save your hands from the burning flame of fire. In field conditions classic version is a meter long stick. To prevent your hands from slipping when rotating, its end need not be cleared of bark.

The shape of the skewer is also significant. In practice, three main forms are used:

• flat,
• square,
• rounded.

It is not recommended to use a round shape when preparing dishes from minced meat and other types of boneless meat, as this will cause it to slip off. That is why it is advisable to make the rod not from one piece, but from three. Flat is only suitable for shish kebab and small pieces, because otherwise your rod will bend under the weight of the animal carcass. The most ideal shape is square. Certainly, whole pieces It will be difficult for you to place them on such a rod, but they will not slip off. When preparing a pig or chicken carcass, you can place it on a skewer so that the end passes through the anus.

Give the right type wood can be done using an ordinary ax, which is at hand for every hiking enthusiast. But with metal structure It will be much more difficult to cope with. You will need to spend some time using a hammer to get everything just right. However, you don’t have to think about such little things and cook with what you have. To complete the design, you need to sharpen one end to make it easier to insert the meat.

Of course, the perfect version of this simple device would be a model that would be equipped with teeth for holding meat. IN classic form they are arranged in pairs so that their sharp ends “look” opposite each other. Manufactured industrially, these teeth are usually removable and have a clamp, otherwise they interfere with the insertion of the carcass. Therefore for homemade version It would be more practical to make one pair, tightly attaching them at a distance of one third of the length from the “blunt” end. The teeth can be made from two separate metal rods by bending them into an arc, welding or screwing them. If you have a simple stick at hand, then you can simply choose a branch with branches, also located somewhere at a distance of one third of the length from the “blunt” end. Next, additional branches should be trimmed, cleaned and sharpened.

Making a hearth

In addition to the spit itself, you will also need a hearth. It can be either a simple grill or homemade fire. With the first, everything is clear, but the device of the second can have many variations. There are two main types of hearth structure:

• Vertical,
• horizontal.

They differ in the way the rod is loaded into them and in their purpose. Of course, the second type is preferable, since it can also be used for smoking. An ordinary charcoal fire can serve as a horizontal variety. To attach the spit to it you will need additional accessories. You must place two supports on its sides. They can be bricks or simple slingshot pegs, which are easy to find in camping conditions. Some craftsmen make a collapsible metal stand. For our cooking tool, we should make fasteners for the sharp end so that it does not jump out when rotated by the handle. There may be different variations here.

To build a vertical fire pit, you will need a shovel because you will first have to dig a deep but narrow hole. In the classic form, a hole about half a meter deep is dug for frying shashlik or other small animals. Accessories for this type of fireplace will include additional sticks on which the spit can be hung. The rod itself will have to have a corresponding design feature: its width between the paired teeth should be designed so that they can be used to hang the spit on additional rods.

As you can see, there are a huge number of options for making this device. The main thing is to have skillful hands, rich imagination and ingenuity.

An electric broiler for skewers will help make your outdoor recreation relaxed and comfortable. It’s easy to buy such a device in a store, but it’s better to remake a regular grill by adding an electric motor to it, which will turn the meat and ensure even cooking.

Tools

In this article we will talk about improving a regular barbecue. To do this yourself, you need the following tools:

• electric motor;
• electric drill;
• Bulgarian;
• drive pulley;
• drive belt, you can use a bicycle chain, but in this case there will be sprockets instead of pulleys;
• gears (their number is equal to the number of skewers).

For example, a motor from a windshield washer device in a car or a drive for rotating wipers is used as a motor. In principle, any similar 12 V motor will do, no matter left or right rotation.

If you use a 220 V motor, the electric grill will not be as mobile, and there will also be a risk of injury electric shock. The rotation speed will also be too high. The 12 V motor is powered even from a small motorcycle battery. Gears can be purchased at the store or cut out from stainless steel yourself.

Making a brazier

For those who do not have a barbecue to remodel, we will briefly describe how to make one with your own hands. To assemble the electric fryer you will need metal sheets– component parts about 3 mm thick, which are marked and cut out with a grinder.

Scheme for making a barbecue

1. All plates are clamped in a vice in turn.
2. At the very bottom of the wall, holes with a diameter of 10 mm are drilled at a distance of 3 cm from each other. They are needed for traction, thanks to which the coals will produce heat.
3. Holes are also drilled in the bottom, but with a smaller interval. Their function is to get rid of excess ash.
4. The barbecue body is welded from the resulting blanks.
5. Finally, the legs are welded.

In the upper part of the electric fryer, grooves are cut to rotate the skewers, the distance between which is equal to the width of the gear with a tolerance of 0.5 cm.

Installing the engine on the grill

Installation of the elements of the skewers rotation system takes place in the following sequence:

1. Motor.
2. Gears.
3. Chain.
4. Power source (battery).

Next, a gearbox is mounted, which reduces the rotation speed on the skewers and transmits force from the motor to the gears. Initially, a pulley or drive sprocket is installed on the motor shaft (in the case of a chain drive). The driven gear, pulley or sprocket must be much larger in diameter to reduce the skewers' rotational speed to an acceptable level.

The entire system (engine, gearbox and gears) is mounted on a plate that already contains a shaft with bearings. The motor is mounted with outside barbecue using a bolted connection.

The chain is tensioned only when the product is completely completed.

Manufacturing of gear system

The assembly sequence is as follows:

1. Initially, install the first gear.
2. The second is installed on the body and connected to the motor with a chain.
3. Next, attach the third (also on the wall of the grill).
4. The fourth and subsequent gears are attached in the same way.

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The engine, starting to work, rotates the first gear mounted on the shaft, which, in turn, through a chain, belt or teeth (depending on the design) transmits rotation to the second gear, which to the third, and so on. Thus, the skewers with meat turn at the same speed.

Methods for transmitting rotation of skewers:

1. Connect all the gears with a chain (in this case there is not necessarily contact between them, but the chain must be long enough).
2. Install the drive only between the electric motor and the first gear mounted on the shaft, where the belt or chain will be put on (in this case, fairly wide sprockets are used - 3-4 mm, with minimal play, to prevent slipping when engaging with each other).

After the gears are mounted, tension the drive chain. By changing the size of the drive sprocket or shaft, the required rotation speed of the skewers is achieved.

Important! After installing the gears on an electric grill, for safety reasons it is necessary to hide the moving parts with a protective plate.

Making a spit and skewers

Before you start making these devices, think about what parameters they should have. A skewer and a skewer are different instruments for cooking food. The first is used for cooking whole carcasses, for example, large fish, pork leg, duck, etc., the second is for frying small pieces of meat.

The length of the spit should be 15 cm greater than the width of the grill, and the thickness should be approximately 15 mm. This product will even withstand a pig carcass.

The skewer is made up to 10 mm wide (depending on the size of the pieces of meat that are planned to be fried). For small slices, 6 mm is enough, but for large ones (for example, a whole chicken), this width is not enough.

The shape of the skewer can be different:

1. Round.
2. Flat.
3. Corner.
4. Square.

For the smallest pieces of meat, flat rods are used. Square ones are suitable for minced meat; this shape prevents them from slipping. Round skewers are not very convenient; the meat easily slides off them and also turns during frying.

For convenience, the spit is equipped with teeth that securely fix the animal carcass and prevent rotation. Making such a device with teeth in the form of arcs or triangles is not difficult, the main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise threading meat onto an electric spit will be difficult.

Outdoor recreation near a smoking barbecue requires the presence in the company of at least one specialist in preparing good barbecue.

An electric grill will allow the meat to cook evenly on the spit, resulting in juicy meat.

The most difficult thing is to fry the meat evenly so that it does not burn.

And it just so happens that the craftsman has to stand at the grill and turn skewers when everyone else is having fun and relaxing. It’s not difficult to help him, you just need to install an electric drive on the brazier, which will do all the work. mechanical work. And the barbecue specialist will only have to check the readiness of the dish from time to time and replace the skewers with meat.

The most important part of the design is the electric motor. You can pick up a small, low-power motor from an old record player, a battery-powered children's toy, or use a working but unnecessary 12V electric drive for a car unit. In addition, you will need:

“sprockets” from a bicycle or pulleys of different sizes; a bicycle chain or V-belt; gears of the same diameter according to the number of skewers simultaneously placed on the grill, + 2 pcs.; a chain whose pitch matches the gears used; drill, grinder.

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In order to make a grill with an electric drive with your own hands, you will first have to assemble a gearbox, which will serve to reduce engine speed and transmit torque to the spits.

Cut out with a grinder sheet metal 2 identical plates for making the drive housing. The sizes are selected individually, depending on the parameters of the barbecue. A number of cuts need to be made in the upper part of the plates for laying skewers.

The distance between them should be slightly larger diameter gears. To assemble the gearbox, attach a sprocket or a pulley with a smaller diameter to the motor shaft. Weld a gear to the other, large one. Place the structure on a shaft with a bearing mounted on a plate.

The distance from its axis to the bottom of the cut on the body should be equal to the diameter of the gear. The size of the large “star” is selected so that the spit makes 1-2 revolutions per minute around its axis. This will be enough for the meat to fry, but not burn. At the opposite end of the drive housing, install the 2nd gear on the shaft through the bearing. Attach the gears on skewers near the handle, the diameter of which coincides with the diameter of the gear welded to the pulley or “sprocket”. Install engine in convenient location on the legs of the fryer, pull the chain or V-belt from the small “sprocket” or pulley on the motor shaft to the large one attached to the drive housing.

Pull the second chain horizontally between the gears on the drive housing and on the large sprocket. Drill holes in the corners of the plates and bolt them together so that the drive mechanism is inside. Weld hooks on which you can hang the electric drive for the barbecue. On the opposite side of the fryer, mount a support for skewers in the form of a strip of metal or an angle with holes of a suitable diameter.

To prepare shish kebab, skewers are installed with their sharp ends into the holes of the support, and the gears attached to them are placed with teeth between the links of a horizontal chain in the drive housing. When an electric motor is connected to a power source, the sprockets rotate, transmitting rotation to the gears and driving the horizontal chain. She, in turn, rotates the gears attached to the skewers, turning the pieces of meat strung on them.

If desired, the drive housing can be easily removed from the grill and grilled kebab in the usual way.

Rotating the skewers is a tedious and monotonous job, which cannot be interrupted, lest you end up with coals on the skewers instead of kebab.

The idea of ​​creating a barbecue with an electric drive for skewers appeared a long time ago. Various technical developments over time were transformed into a design consisting of an electric motor with a 12 V power supply and a drive consisting of a chain of gears or a belt drive that ensures the simultaneous rotation of all rods. To make a barbecue with an electric drive with your own hands - It’s not difficult, you just need to understand its design. Before you start making a grill with an electric drive with your own hands, you need to decide on its dimensions. This is an important point, since it determines what kind of engine will be needed for such a design. A large system with rotating spits will require a certain amount of power: the greater the number of moving units, the greater the losses and the shorter the engine life. Sometimes it is convenient to slightly change the design and make a barbecue spit with your own hands, which rotates only one axis, but can accommodate a larger amount of meat.

Do it yourself

You can purchase a ready-made automatic grill, but they, as a rule, are either stationary and powered by a 220 V network, or have too few skewers. In order to obtain a design that meets the user’s needs, you need to make an electric grill with your own hands. The easiest way is to modify an existing grill by installing an electric motor with a drive for skewers.

You need to get the necessary materials and tools and get to work.

To create a barbecue with automatically rotating skewers you will need:

Electric motor. Grinder with cutting and grinding wheels. Electric drill. Pulleys, sprockets or gears in the required quantity (according to the number of skewers and gears of the gearbox, if any). Drive belt, bicycle chain (depending on the selected drive system).

Selection of electric motor

The best option is a 12 V electric motor, which has enough power to rotate the skewers, but does not require an excessively capacious power source.

It can be connected to the car’s on-board power supply, use batteries, etc. You can use a motor from various devices, such as:

Electric grill. Electric rotisserie. Car windows or wipers. Microwave ovens. Cordless screwdrivers, etc.

The use of motors with a 220 V power supply deprives the grill of autonomy and precludes its use when traveling outdoors, so we will not consider this option.

Drive assembly

Skewers are inserted into special slots. On one side, they are sockets into which skewers are inserted from above; on the opposite side, they are grips for skewer rings installed on the axis of gears or drive pulleys. There are many drive design options:

A bicycle chain with a drive sprocket on the engine axis and a row of driven sprockets on the skewers axles. A drive belt passed in a zigzag pattern through a series of drive pulleys, and a drive pulley on the engine axis. A drive gear that transmits rotation to a chain of gears along the skewers axes.

The latter option is more reliable - it does not create excessive load on the pulleys, so it is used most often.

Do you need an electric drive for skewers?

There are mechanical barbecues in which the rotation of all spits at once is carried out from one axis.

A handle is installed on it, with the help of which the working rods are set in motion. The design is convenient due to its independence from power supply, but it requires constant human presence. An electric drive for a barbecue frees up a person, giving him the opportunity to do other things or just relax with friends.

Installation of an electric drive includes several steps:

Installing an electric motor on the product frame. Creating a chain of gears (pulleys, sprockets) that transmit rotational motion to each other. Installing a drive belt or chain.

The use of different types of transmission somewhat changes the specifics of the actions performed, but the general order of work is not disrupted.

Instructions for making a chain of gears

The first gear is the drive gear, it is installed on the motor shaft.

It connects to the 2nd gear, to which all the others are connected in series. It is not recommended to disturb the installation order and place the gears out of order; this can interfere with the ease of movement and create unnecessary load. Unlike a pulley system or sprocket from a bicycle chain, the gears are all meshed, so they require the same sequential installation.

Preparing the skewer

In parallel with the manufacture of an electric drive, the question often arises - how to make a spit for a barbecue with your own hands. Unlike a skewer, a spit is designed for roasting large pieces of meat (for example, a pig carcass).

Therefore, it needs a sufficient lifting height above the coals and a larger working part width. Typically, the spit is installed in the transverse direction, which allows you to expand the heating zone to the entire working part. It is necessary to install a separate motor with a connecting device for the working rod, and on the opposite side it is necessary to attach a mating part that supports the free end.

Successful examples and options

Usually there are no special requirements for the appearance of barbecues.

However, there are often people who are no less demanding when it comes to device design. An important question for them is how to make a barbecue that fully matches the design of their summer cottage or has a specific shape. The network has a large number of examples and options for the appearance of barbecues, made in different styles and forms.

You need to choose the most suitable option for yourself before you start making an electric grill, so as not to redo the finished product due to some inconsistencies.

The advantages of an electric grill include:

There is no need for constant attention to the condition of the kebabs. The juice released from the meat does not flow onto the hot coals, forming carcinogenic compounds, but evenly wets the surface of the pieces. Uniform cooking of the meat on all sides. In winter, there is no need to freeze near the grill. If necessary When cooking for a large number of guests, the work can be streamlined.

The disadvantages include:

The need for rechargeable batteries. The use of an electric motor requires certain safety measures. The frying mode at a certain rotation speed requires skill and experience; at first, the kebab may turn out to be undercooked.

Users note that habit and some skill appear quite quickly, but not everyone succeeds the first time.

What does the design look like?

There are many design options, drive types, design and design of barbecues. Externally, such a product does not differ too much from the usual type of barbecue, but the presence of a motor and a gear system immediately reveals the electric version of the design.

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IN last years More and more people are moving from small towns and villages to large cities. Life in such cities is in full swing, the constant bustle and running around sooner or later gets boring. Many people are starting to return to their roots and buy themselves a country house in some quiet and peaceful place. Here they admire nature, grow various crops and, of course, cook barbecue or meat on the grill. For each such device, you need a spit that would hold the carcass during cooking for even heating. The easiest option is to make a spit yourself.

To ensure that the meat is cooked well and evenly, use a skewer.

This thing is simply necessary for the barbecue. When buying such a device, you can always make a mistake about the material or its quality, but if you make a spit for the barbecue with your own hands, then you can forget about these problems once and for all.

Moreover, if everything is done correctly and efficiently, then the device will serve faithfully for more than a dozen years.

Materials needed to make your own barbecue spit

There are not so many of them, because a skewer is a metal bayonet, so you will need:

• metal rods;
• the grill itself for measurements;
• spit handle;
• metal bayonet;
• welding; pliers;
• roulette;
• Bulgarian.

The whole process of making a spit for a barbecue with your own hands is quite simple and does not require any supernatural knowledge and skills.

The main thing is that the bayonet is not made of a fusible material, otherwise it will melt and ruin the meat.

It is best to use stainless steel.

In order for the carcass to be conveniently attached to the spit, you will need 4 rods, which must be welded in a cross. They must be the same length so that the load is evenly distributed on the spit.

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The process of making a barbecue spit with your own hands

So, first you need to determine the length of the skewer and its diameter. For a simple barbecue, a rod with a diameter of less than 1 cm is suitable, but if you plan to cook a small pig, you will have to take a thicker rod.

Its diameter, depending on its length, can vary from 1.2 cm to 1.6 cm.

If you plan to cook a very large animal, then you cannot do without complex mathematical calculations. The length of the spit is determined either by the dimensions of the grill, or by what will be used instead.

So, the rods are welded crosswise, and the rod is selected. What to do next?

The handle for the spit can be made from improvised means, for example, a piece of pipe.

It is necessary to build a handle. It can be either stationary or removable. It all depends on the desire of the master who builds the spit for the barbecue. It can be made from simple door handle or bicycle handles. You can also simply take a small piece of pipe and give it any shape convenient for further work.

You can go even further the simple way: do not make a handle, but leave about 1 m of rod protruding beyond the stops. This way you can also protect your hands from touching hot metal.

You can make a barbecue skewer in all possible shapes with your own hands. You can use not only round rods, but also square or flat ones, but they must be thick enough to hold the carcass.

For the spit, you can use the rods of the most various forms: round, square and flat.

By the way, round rods are not very suitable for spits, since the carcass can slide on them and is difficult to turn from side to side. However, such a rod is easier to turn over.

If you make a spit with a square cross-section, then, on the contrary, it will be difficult to turn it over, but the meat will be fried evenly. In general, each option has its own pros and cons, and the choice depends on the specific desires and capabilities of the person.

There is very little left, and the spit for the barbecue will be completely ready. The final step is to attach the teeth to the spit either from the blunt end or from the handle side. It's not that important. By the way, they may not be removable.

After the last stage is completed, we can state the fact that the barbecue spit, created with your own hands, is absolutely ready for use. Now all that remains is to buy a young pig and try to roast it over the grill or fire.