Charcoal quality

[Vigen Tigen]

1 hour ago, judastreefairy said:

Not another one who can’t cook wood🤦‍♂️

Well, that's why I'm here, looking for insights that will make me a better cooker of wood, so any that you are willing to share will be much appreciated 😊

Edited February 10 by Vigen Tigen
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[openspaceman]

On 09/02/2025 at 11:33, Vigen Tigen said:

Feeling a bit of a numpty! I've been talking about temperature in Fahrenheit so from the sounds of it, I haven't been getting the temperature high enough, even though I am getting charcoal?

I'm surprised that it gets beyond being torrified as that's only 260°C,  without referring to texts I thought it needed to get to 330°C before it was proper charcoal.

[Vigen Tigen]

2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I'm surprised that it gets beyond being torrified as that's only 260°C,  without referring to texts I thought it needed to get to 330°C before it was proper charcoal.

During a typical burn it will often hit the 350° C, staying around mark that for a couple of hours during a 6hr burn, and maybe that's enough to turn it into charcoal and as you can see from the pic, it's pretty much there! Having said that resulting charcoal feels a bit heavy and doesn't have that classic 'chandelier tinkle' that I'm trying to achieve, but is that something I should actually be worried about? (The burn contains a mixed stock of 50 - 75mm dia seasoned hardwood nuggets)