Charcoal Making Oven Design

Yeah you could go buy your own charcoal but it s so much more fun to just make your own.

Charcoal making oven design.

This is my original charcoal making setup. Eco kalan has adapted their binkga oven named ofter the rice cakes that the ovens make to use both locally available coconut charcoal and stick wood fuel. There are a few things about this design that make it less efficient for producing charcoal. Built in charcoal bbq with oven is not only appropriate for preparing a variety of dishes like burgers sausages steaks vegetables and potatoes you can also use charcoal oven for baking cakes puddings cookies and other desserts.

The most natural way to make charcoal is to create a pile of wood in a container and bake it without oxygen. I ve read books on making charcoal and looked on youtube to see how others make it. Building the charcoal stove. Briquettes are made of pulverized charcoal bound with various chemical glues into the conventional pillow shape.

Next place the roast in the oven and close the door. Make a roast overnight. In fact the hinged lid with a handle on the front spins in a rotary motion 180 degrees. It works great if you are making biochar but not so good for bladesmithing and smelting.

Some people use brick for the oven but that would be expensive. The smoke is actual atomized carbon which is more powerful than dynamite. Napoleon s nk22ck c charcoal kettle grill puts a few spins on the familiar kettle design. Charcoal in its natural form as produced in the pit oven or steer kiln bears little resemblance to the commercial counterpart bagged for sale at the local market.

It also helps that its incredibly easy to do if you ve got the right tools on hand. It stays within the charcoal and creates a very powerful fuel. Add wood to your oven and create a large slow burning fire. Making charcoal using indirect method with 55 gallon oil drum.

The system uses the same oven bottom and two different covers one for wood and one for charcoal. I have moved to other methods but there is room for improvement here. First carefully rake out the coals onto the ground killing the fire. Once the oven has reached 500 degrees fahrenheit 260 degrees celsius your oven is ready for a roast.

The result is charred wood or char coal. Let me know if you modify it to get better quantity charcoal. What happens to the smoke carbon monoxide. It s hard to beat a weber kettle but napoleon holds its own and adds some unique features to make the nk22ck c a viable alternative.