Commencing charcoalification

Charcoalification complete xD

Man, them steaks is gonna be delicious

>>2930300
how did you do it?

>>2930337
Put a bunch of chunks of oak in an old popcorn tin, stabbed a little hole in the lid and built a fire around it

>>2930338
how many hours?
does the entire tin need to be covered, or rotated?

>>2930299 (OP)
>>2930300
Good stuff, that'll make some fine black powder.

>>2930341
Hope he started saving piss!

>>2930339
I just built the fire around it with a bunch of punky wood and left it overnight, no rotating. It was entirely covered, yeah. There was a lot of tarry buildup around the hole, presumably where the moisture escaped

I cant find a metal bucket anywhere.
No one sells popcorn or cookies in one.
Menards only has a 20 gallon trash bin or gallon paint bucket.
No 5 gallon paint bucket
No smaller size tin buckets with lids.
Fucking trump and tariffs

>>2930339
>does the entire tin need to be covered, or rotated?
yes if you want evennly cooked wood, no it shouldn't need to be rotated, heat penetration is the most important part

>>2930357
You can make a sod burn ir an open pit burn if you can't manage a retort, just make sure the wood is dry to reduce snoke if you have neighbours.

>>2930357
go to sherwin williams or whatever paint store and ask if they have a used or empty metal 5 gal bucket. thats where i get them for shoveling my woodstove ashes

I bought a 5 gallon metal paint bucket, it's brand new. Has plastic liner and seal. Should I burn that off first, or wil it burn off clearly during the first batch?

90 seconds, impressive

>>2930424
Burn it out first, it'll add stuff that's known to the state of cancer to cause California

>>2930447
cool, will do.

i did a test with a gallon paint bucket, now is it me, or maybe this scales better with a larger bucket. but ive used 8x the amount of wood to burn a fire for the small amount of charcoal that could fit in that gallon bucket.

does the wood used for charcoal matter? i got a ton of hickory, and birch.

>>2930597
I would use wood you'd traditionally cook with. Oak, hickory, mesquite, etc. IDK about birch.

>>2930367
*or an open
*reduce smoke

>>2930447
>it'll add stuff that's known to the state of cancer to cause California
I couldn't wish that on anyone.