Smoker oven

A smoker oven capable of converting wood to smoke for smoking and cooking food through the medium of heated, smoke laden air circulated repeatedly by food contained within said smoker oven, the smoker oven comprising:

• a housing having first and second ends and uppermost and lowermost cooking chambers defined within said housing, said chambers having inlet and outlet ends with said uppermost cooking chamber disposed immediately above said lowermost cooking chamber;
• a firebox for holding wood, said firebox disposed laterally between the first end of said lowermost cooking chamber and the first end of said housing;
• heating means for heating the air inside said housing and operative to convert the wood into smoke;
• fan means positioned toward the first end of said uppermost cooking chamber and disposed above said firebox and adjacent the inlet end of said uppermost cooking chamber for receiving smoke and heat enriched air;
• a substantially enclosed plenum, operative to exhaust air into said uppermost cooking chamber;
• a manifold means disposed substantially within said plenum and distributing said heated, smoke laden air substantially uniformly into said plenum;
• a perforated chamber wall disposed between said plenum and said uppermost cooking chamber, said perforated chamber wall being perforated to deliver a plurality of substantially horizontal and uniformly distributed streams to thereby direct said smoke laden air substantially horizontally and uniformly through said uppermost cooking chamber;
• an arcuate deflector spanning from approximately the top outlet end of said uppermost cooking chamber to the bottom inlet end of said lowermost cooking chamber, said deflector covering the outlet end of said uppermost cooking chamber and the inlet end of said lowermost cooking chamber and arching outwardly from said cooking chambers to form a reversing chamber that is operable to direct said smoke laden air from said uppermost cooking chamber to said lowermost cooking chamber and reverse the horizontal direction of the flow of said smoke laden air;
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• a perforated baffle plate disposed between said reversing chamber and said inlet end of said lowermost cooking chamber, said perforated baffle plate being perforated to deliver a plurality of substantially horizontal and substantially uniformly distributed streams to thereby direct said smoke laden air substantially horizontally and uniformly through said lowermost cooking chamber, said outlet end of said lower chamber being in fluid communication with said firebox and said heating means to thereby redirect said smoke laden air to said firebox and said heating means.