How Do You Make Coals From Wood Instead Of Charcoal?
Charcoal is the impure carbon residue left after water and gasses have been removed from organic materials like bone, sugar cane, or most commonly, wood. Charcoal is used in a wide variety of applications from curing indigestion, to drawing, soil improvement, blacksmithing and manufacturing fireworks, but it is most widely used as an efficient cooking fuel in open pits or backyard barbecues. You can make your own coals by slow-roasting wood in a low-oxygen container, which avoids any unwanted additives found in commercial charcoal briquettes. Drill one or two quarter inch holes in your steel stockpot lid if it does not have one already. Fill the stockpot with lengths of wood split into roughly 2-inch-square sticks. Use hardwood for harder, brighter burning charcoal or softwood for quicker-burning, gentler charcoal. Tightly fasten the lid to the pot using C-clamps. Start a hot fire in the fire pit using scrap hardwood. Keep a stack of hardwood nearby to keep the fire burning hotly for a
