Smokehouses

thumb|Reitman's Smokehouse, Camp Springs, Kentucky thumb|Meat hanging inside a smokehouse in Switzerland A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. Even when smoke is not used, such a building—typically a subsidiary building—is sometimes referred to as a "smokehouse". When smoke is not used, the term meathouse or meat house is common.