Why I prefer lump of coal

The history and tradition of burning charcoal dating back thousands of years and there is something magical about cooking on a charcoal grill.

Coal is the fuel for traditional barbecue, because it produces a good fire of long duration, which is almost smokeless. The basics of making charcoal by wood in an atmosphere low in oxygen, a process that increases the moisture and volatile gases, which in the original fuel. The elimination of moisturereduces the weight of fuel up to 70% and the proceeds of charred burns too much longer the original piece of wood.

Coal has been produced since prehistoric times and we know that after the discovery of an ancient body of a melting glacier in the Austrian Alps. Scientists have dated the human remains back 5000 years ago and found them as he wrapped a small box of wood burned in the leaves. The researchers conclude that thesmoky charred wood, and would probably use the people around a fire, because outside of this area, it was not fire other raw materials such as flint.

From 6000 years ago was the preferred fuel for smelting copper and coal, this remains the case for iron as well as late 17th centuries, where coking coal is replaced. Coal has also many other areas much later, especially popular for the abundance of forests in manyThe fields and groves process a sustainable resource. Something we should consider in this era of global warming - many environmentalists see wood and coal as carbon neutral, because the tree's ability to grow and absorb greenhouse gases. Coal was used for domestic heating, and perhaps we should start using more in a fireplace instead of gas powered patio heater?

The final step of charcoal for heating and industrial fuelrecreational cooking equipment took place in 1920 when Henry Ford created the charcoal briquettes. The business proved extremely profitable for Ford to sell because the charcoal briquettes were made from wood waste from the machine and its ancillary facilities also encourages recreational use of cars for picnic picnic - Link! In fact, a barbecue and coal were also among Ford dealers sold.

The process response is used to produce charcoal briquettesand the wood goes through a series of hearths or ovens and the great revolution is that it is an ongoing process, rather than being made in separate batches with traditional lump of coal. The traditional production of charcoal was pyramid-shaped piles and covered with earth, grass or ash, with air cushion at the base and a chimney top. The wood is then ignited and burned slowly, and once completely through the holes were thenso cool the pyramid would be covered.

I suspect that the benefits of production clusters are interesting for the production of a merchant, but there is something magical about the production of coal very flat. The phases are indicated by different colors of smoke, as moisture is released and is a driving skills passed down from father to son. Maybe I'm getting sentimental, but when I'm cooking with charcoal, are still in the trunkKnowing that the industry's traditional multiplication.

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