“Charcoal is 8$ a bag.
WHY pay that when you can make your own out of hardwood prunings, at home – even if you live in the suburbs!
If you use the indirect method, which burns the gasses, and use a clean burning fuel (such as natural or LP gas) the emissions are mostly water vapors with very little smoke. It is not difficult to do and, even when burning waste wood to provide the carbonizing heat , the process requires less time and attention than barbecuing a rack of ribs in a wood burning smoker.
Why would anyone want to make their own charcoal?
Besides 8$ a week 32$ a month, 400$ coal costs a year, good hardwood lump charcoal burns hotter and cleaner than briquettes and is much easier to light. You also know where it came from, what it contains and what was done to it en route…”
