Never Run Out of Lump Charcoal Ever Again
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- 00:00 - If you're like us making something out of the ordinary really turns your crank. That's what happens here. One would normally run out to your local hardware store to purchase lump charcoal for your charcoal grill but when we have the time we make our own. The nice part about this is you get to choose your hardwood with no chemicals of any kind and you can make as much as you can for next to nothing. Homemade lump charcoal is so easy to make and is incredible for the grill. There is a sense of satisfaction when you can make your own and it gives you bragging rights as you light up the charcoal grill to entertain your family and friends.
Here is how we do it.
ITEMS YOU NEED
1 - 45 gallon (55 US gallon) drum with lid off
1 - 15 gallon (18 US gallon) drum with detachable lid
Hardwood firewood
Scrap Firewood (could be anything from shop scrap to dried branches)
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO SET UP
• For the 15 gallon (18 US Gallon) drum 04:38
- Turn the drum upside down and bore ½“ holes on the bottom a little all over covering the area
• For the 45 gallon (55 US Gallon) drum. Notice this at 04:40 of the video
- On the sidewalls on the bottom 10 inches bore 1” holes on 2 rows all the way around spacing the rows app 4” and the holes on each row app 8 to 10” to create air flow from the bottom
• Place the smaller drum inside the larger one in the middle as to leave room around it to add the scrap firewood. 05:00
• Load the smaller drum with the wood that you will use to make the lump charcoal. Fill it with as much wood as you can fit in but make sure that you will be able to close its cover 05:10
• Fill the gap between the larger drum and the smaller drum with scrap wood. Put as much as you can making sure you have highly flammable dry pieces at the very top 05:58
• Our cover for the smaller drum is getting old so we placed some brick on top of it to keep snug and closed. 07:35
• Once the cover on the smaller drum is closed, continue filling the larger drum with scrap wood until it is full right to the top
• Using whatever method you want ignite the wood from the top all the way around
• Now you leave it burn until the scrap wood has completely burned out. Will take approximately 2½ to 3 hours
• Now refrain from opening the lid on the smaller drum until the following morning because if you do there will be enough oxygen available to ignite your lump charcoal rendering them to useless ashes.
And there you have it. Simple and amazing
ENJOY!!! Your homemade lump charcoal.
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I like that glassy metallic sound of charcoal
so straight forward, so many other videos with chimneys etc. but this is just perfect.
Thanks Shaun. Appreciate your feedback
This looks amazing, can’t wait to make my own
so easy to do and so much better than store bought
Yes - I use this method and it works very well.
There is no need, though, to use an inner barrel with a lid, or to punch holes in the bottom. Simply put the inner barrel in upside down and the wood gas will escape from under the rim just fine.
Once your wood has converted to charcoal, there is enough ash in the bottom of the big barrel to seal out any air from getting back in whilst its cooling.
Thank you. Really appreciate the tip. I didn't know that. Makes total sense. Love doing my own lump charcoal.
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 You're welcome! Thanks for reponding.
I've been learning the art of charcoal-making over the past few years and love to see how other peoople do it. If you look on TH-cam, you'll see that the Thai people are very good at it (it's something of a village industry there) and some of their designs using simple arrangements of barrels, metal tubes and bricks are ingenious.
I own some woodland in the UK and making / selling charcoal helps offset some of the costs. As well as lumpwood barbecue charcoal I also make sticks of artists' willow charcoal for drawing and charcloth for bushcraft types. The best seller by far, though, is "horticultural charcoal" - very trendy at the moment. Basically, it''s just the fines and dust that's left over after you've taken out the larger lumps for the barbecue (all the stuff you usually don't know what to do with!). People turn it into "biochar" for their pot plants and gardens.
All the best and Happy Charcoaling!
Wow. Very impressive. Would love to learn all that stuff you're doing. I've read on Biochar and watched a few videos on it. Very interesting. I have kept the charcoal dust that is generated from making lump charcoal but I have yet to use it. I have to give it a try. Thank you so much for enlightening me. Really appreciate
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 well if you lookup codys lab channel on youtube he does an experiment with charcoal. Basically lump charcoal made with low temperatures in low oxygen or basically he used store bought lump charcoal. He then made charcoal in high heat like in a pit or something. So you get a level of coals and then add more wood until the hole or trench is full of coals and you flood it with water. The key difference is absorption. Store bought charcoal absorbed like 10 something of iodine. But charcoal made in high heat like a campfire absorbed 30 while activated carbon absorbed like 90 maybe. Look up skillzcult channel on youtube on the trenchmethod of making biochar or charcoal. It's what i did. My brother made a four foot wide by three foot deep by eight feet long trench. We just burned like a trailer load of wood in a few hours and then drenched the coals. It's honestly far to time consuming to make charcoal in some containers when the trench method is so much quicker. That is if you need it for the garden or to add to your lawn for instance. But I'll definitely have to try your barrel method cause I have a ton of fruit tree trimmings and lump charcoal probably has more heat in it still vs charcoal made in a high heat trench method.
@@koltoncrane3099 Wow. That is very interesting. I will have to look that up. Thanks for sharing
we need people like you thanks very much
thanks
Awesome!
Glad you think so!
Very informative. Thanks for the vid
No problem!
Thank You - Excellent video 👍🏻
You are welcome! Happy you liked it.
Cool video, excited to try it and compare to store bought lump!
It is as good if not better than store bought. Thanks
Great video. Simple instructions and superb results! Thanks!
Thanks John. Appreciate the kind comment
Great video and well explained.
Thank you Kevin. Really appreciate
Nice, thank you.
You're very welcome
Very nice. Perfectly explained. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so much
You're welcome!
Jeez it sounds like a gas stove burner! Thanks for the vide. Very informative.
Yes you're right it sure does sound like that. The audio in the video does not give it justice though. Thanks
well done...
Thanks Frank. Really appreciate
He didn’t tell you to stick your fingers in the saw, you did that on your own. Cutting the wood shorter was a great idea. Maybe he shouldn’t trust your ideas since you’re the genius that did it dangerous. Glad you still have your finger.
I knew someone was going to pick that up. Lol. I have to blame the son in law. It's my job lol
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 Well glad you didn’t lose the finger.
Wow
yes wow. easy to do
From Philippines...
Hi. From Canada here
Great Video and Great info. I just started saving the coals from my wood stove for my forge.. not lump like yours so I will need to try your way thanks again GOD Bless😇👍
Glad it was helpful! Let me know how you made out when you do try
Nice one charcoal is very important in cooking keep safe and Godbless
Yes, thank you
Why is it important? Wood seems to work fine for me.
Can you do this in the winter and use the energy that is going up into the air to heat your house?
You got me on this one John, however I am pretty sure someone with some imagination and skills could probably come up with something that would work.
Quite a good yield there , very simple and straight forward , I have a question , could I put a hole in the top of the retort barrel to help release wood gases
Thank you very much. As far as putting a hole in the cover of the retort, please do not do that. We want to eliminate as much oxygen as we can from getting to the wood inside the retort. The gases are released through the holes at the bottom. Too much oxygen will create ash. The method used in the video assures that you will be getting pure lump charcoal with very little to no ash at all.
Then air flows through the barrel and instead of charcoal you get ashes
Nice looking oles you drilled in the bottom ay...
Thanks 👍
Glad to see this. It convinced me to buy the charcoal I need
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I have no problem with that. It all depends what you want at the end of the day, but there is a sense of satisfaction in doing this yourself.
New friend here
yes for sure
Hi. Love the video. I have a load of ash trees that im going to make into charcoal. Im wondering about the need for holes in the bottom of the retort. Do the draw unwanted oxygen into the small barrel? Im thinking a chimney made from a bit of 2" pipe on the lid of the retort may work better. What do you think?
I am happy that you are thinking of making your own lump charcoal and ash is an awesome wood to use for charcoal. Instead of explaining to you why I there are small holes in the retort I will put a link here for an awesome video to watch on making bio-char which is exactly the same process as making lump charcoal. This fellow explains the process very precisely and accurately. You can then make your own conclusion on this one. The small holes on the bottom do not draw in oxygen but rather release the wood gas from the wood. Here is the link. A great video to watch. th-cam.com/video/svNg5w7WY0k/w-d-xo.html
Seems like the process would go faster if the scrap wood fire was started at the bottom, so that the entire outside of the small barrel would get heated right away. Have you tried that? What happens? @BBQ Joes: Recipes for the BBQ enthusiast
To assure success that the wood inside the inside chamber will completely turn into lump charcoal. If we would start the fire from the bottom it would burn too fast. This way because of the holes in the bottom of the large barrel will provide air to the fire on top the wood will burn slowly as the flames move from the top to the bottom. The whole process does not take that long and it assures success
One bad idea does not make all bad,every concept starts with a idea..!!
totally true. Thanks
You have holes at the bottom of the 16 gal barrel but do you have the 16 barrel sitting off the floor of the 55 gal drum? It looked like you have it sitting on a grate of some sort. Great video!
Thank you Bradley. Yes the smaller drum is sitting directly on the bottom of the 55 gallon drum. It's important that basically no oxygen gets to the wood inside the smaller barrel. That will create pressure and the gases will escape through the bottom holes of the 16 gallon drum perfectly and will burn away and we will be left with lump charcoal. If oxygen gets to the inside of the smaller drum then the wood will burn off and become ash.
I did the same thing Oct 2021. Didn’t cut myself but the blade caught in a knot and smashed my finger between the wood and fence. Lost about 1/2” of my index finger. Never again.
Hey Chris. I hear you on this one. Never again for me too. Lot of power in those saws
Been there with the finger. Some schmuck before me attached a paint stick on the bottom of the backsplash so they could cut a little further out. Imagine my surprise when the same finger, left ring, popped like a grape after being slammed into the backsplash.
I hear you on that one. Not a good feeling. Hope yours has healed well. Mine turned out OK but feels weird tothe touch and gets cold real quick in the winter.
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226
Same.
charcoal has gotten really really expensive where I live, Ill be doing this Thanks
The best thing is that you can use any scrap wood to burn in the outer barrel. Wood that you would normally bring to the landfill site. If you have any Ash wood available to you that is an awesome wood to create charcoal. www.thewoodworkplace.com/ash-wood-for-smoking-meat/ . Have fun making your own charcoal, Thanks for your feedback
Did the inner can have holes in the bottom, or is it air tight?
Yes the inner can has hole in the bottom of it. These holes help the wood gas escape and burn off.
Shouldn't the larger barrel be insulated? To conserve heat
I don't see what that would do. I am not sure if I have ever seen an insulated barrel
Is this considered (Activated Charcole)? I'm trying to find a charcole i can use in mesh bags to make ordor controlled bags..
I'm sorry Andrea, but I cannot answer that question for you. I have no idea. That is a good question though and I would love to find out also.
Activated charcoal has one more process. This pure charcoal is not as efficient because the crystal structure is too tight. They use another process to put microscopic holes in the crystal structure that allows air and water through while trapping larger contaminates.
@@nathanlynn8848 Hey Nathan. Thanks for the insight. I knew someone out there would know about this. Appreciate you clarifying this
Did you have to keep feeding the outward barrel?
No. Once you get the fire going there is no need to refill the outside barrel. Just let it do its thing
OUCH !!!!!!
Yup!!
So lighting from the top is better than from the bottom? If so what's the reason?
To assure success that the wood inside the inside chamber will completely turn into lump charcoal. If we would start the fire from the bottom it would burn too fast. This way because of the holes in the bottom of the large barrel will provide air to the fire on top the wood will burn slowly as the flames move from the top to the bottom. The whole process does not take that long and it assures success
did you add wood to the outside burn after the start or is it just the wood you started with?
I filled outside before I started and did not add any wood after that. It is important to start the fire at the bottom through the holes drilled on teh bottom sides of the big drum
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 thanks
@@hopechannelcat5462 you're very welcome
That's a lot of wasted woodgas!
but it works
It’s not wasted, if the wood gas wasn’t being consumed and providing heat he would need a lot more wood for heating the retort
Try another drum with both ends cut out. Set on top as a chimney and the smoke will disappear. In town solution.
Love the idea. Thanks
Does the wood had to be seasoned and dry or will it turn green wood also?
In my opinion, the wood has to be dry to make good lump charcoal. Wet or green wood would create a lot of smoke and very little charcoal
Thanks for the reply @@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226
You're very welcome and the best of luck with your charcoal making
I make charcoal in a similar way, but the issue I have is that when using it on my barbeque it burns rather faster than commercial charcoal. Are there suppressants used in commercially produced charcoal ?
I am not sure about that but it seems to work well for me. Who knows what commercially made lump charcoal contains.
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 Thank you for replying. I was surprised at how little smoke I get from my own charcoal - almond wood - compared to the commercial stuff which probably goes a long way to confirming our suspicions. I get clean cooking results, and my neighbours here in Spain used to produce most of the charcoal used in Britain back in the day, and they have complimented me on my results. When packing my container, I lay it down at about 45 degrees and lay in the wood so that it will stand vertically later. This position helps me to reduce empty space to a minimum as I pack it and maximise the amount of charcoal that results. I also cut the pieces to be half the internal height of the container, giving two layers of wood of ultimately similar size, and I have very little dust in the finished product. You're right about the noise and flames from the opening. I think it's great fun, and I'm pleased to see you enjoy the process as well. Regards.
@@ourfarmhouseinspain Thanks for the tip and you're right I can just imagine the additives the commercial charcoal has. I feel much safer using my own. I will use you're tips for my next batch for sure. Thanks
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 Good luck, there's always a way to tweak something isn't there ? Please post the results of your next batch. Regards.
@@ourfarmhouseinspain I sure will. Thanks
Is the wood wet or dry?
the wood is dry
How many holes in bottom of inside can ?..
We have 14 - 3/8" holes in the bottom of the smaller inside can
@@bbqjoesrecipesforthebbqent226 ok thk u 👍
@@carlreichelt8724 You're very welcome
oww!
Oh yeah!!
Viva Christo Rey
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Why do I want to have lots of “lump charcoal”?🤔 Always makes a huge mess.🤷🏻♂️
We use it in our Weber Kettle to cook. Works real well. Store it in a large paper bag. It also gives us a sense of satisfaction that we can actually make this ourselves.
Says the guy that rammed the spinning blade into hardwood. That's on you.
lol. True but I like to blame the son in law. lol
looks like more wood burned than charcoal...or we are going for specific charcoal? Sugar maple
Yes this is for sugar maple charcoal. You could use any hardwood. Nice to say that you made your own
you burnt wasted more firewood to make a little charcoal
Yes but it was a lot of fun doing it and proves anyone can do it. I usually take any scrap wood that I can find for the outer wood and quality wood for the inside barrel. I have a 40 acre forested property so wood is not a problem.
Seems a big waste of wood. Why not fill the big barrel with wood and burn it for a period, then put out the fire by putting the lid on? Or just cook with wood instead of charcoal? I do both in my webber grill.
I agree with you but it is kind of neat to be able to do it yourself. As far as wood is concerned I have no worries on that end. I own 40 acres of forest land and have a lot of scrap wood that I can use and as far as maple my forest is full of it. I even make my own maple sugar in the spring
Just a thought, but you could build it more like a gasifier, using the smaller chamber for heat.
Troy what did you do!? Buy dad in law a good bottle of whiskey
Yes that would work lol
Even better it is probably carbon neutral. You are using plants and they will chow down on the dioxide you put into the air. I am sure briquets have fossil fuel used all over the contributing processes. I wonder if you could do the same with corncobs?
I am not sure but I beleive it would be worth a try
Sand clay.
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BUT U may run out of fingers.....😬
lol. That's a very good point but hopefully I've learned.
For $10 you can buy more than you ended up finished product. Use and offset smoker and skip the extra work. Go fishing instead.
Agreed but there is a satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment when you can do your own. To each their own on this one. By the way making my own charcoal didn't cost me a dime just my time
He says OLES instead of holes and GAZ instead of Gas lol
lol
Buy a pallet……
It's all about doing it yourself.
Don't listen to Troy!
lol. A very wise suggestion. Thanks
The title of this video should be how Dumb and Dumber converts 100 lb of wood into 10 lb of charcoal. The most inefficient way possible.
It all depends how you look at it when you have 40 acres of Maple Wood available to you. Anything that you do it yourself, labour is never considered. It's a labour of love at the end of the day.
A waste of good firewood and unessessary air pollution for a little bit of charcoal.