Did some cooking today ...

[Nessmuck56]

Making up my first Evah batch of Charred Punk wood. Been a char cloth guy for ovah 35 years. It came out great...and takes a spark like crazy ! All set now for campfires for the season.

 

[Carbon 6]

Works great doesn't it ?

Do like I do and collect a bucket or bushel full of punkwood and store it in the shed for later. sometimes good dry punkwood is hard to find.
I also collect fatwood, birch bark etc.

 

[Nessmuck56]

This stuff was from a dead birch tree behind the house....nice and spongy .

 

[Carbon 6]

Spongy is what you want. when harvesting from a tree I take only what I can pinch off with my fingers.

Next you'll be making your own charcoal.

 

[Nessmuck56]

Is this how black powder starts off ?

 

[Carbon 6]

Is this how black powder starts off ?

I meant for the bazier.

 

[Nessmuck56]

Bazier ? Is that an Australia thing...lol

 

[Carbon 6]

Nah, it's an 18th century thing.
Actually it goes back as far as the Roman empire or farther.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I like mine..., it's great for keeping the coffee hot when you don't want to keep tending the fire. I like to use a bag of "cowboy" charcoal to fuel it. I've seen folks with roof vents use them inside tents..., but I'm not going to risk the CO poisoning, myself.

LD

 

[Nyckname]

I meant for the bazier.

Um...brazier?

 

[Carbon 6]

Um...brazier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazier

 

[Nyckname]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazier

I was checking if "bazier" was a typo.

 

[Carbon 6]

Yes I guess it was, I missed it. Good catch.

 

[Black Hand]

Is this how black powder starts off ?

Sort of - just that punkwood isn't used, rather solid wood is used to make charcoal.

 

[Nyckname]

Sort of - just that punkwood isn't used, rather solid wood is used to make charcoal.

And it takes a bit longer'n when Captain Kirk did it.

If I understand correctly, you need to grind the ingredients for close to an hour to make enough for one shot.

 

[Bad Karma]

Um...brazier?

I always thought that was an over the shoulder boulder holder...

 

[Nyckname]

I always thought that was an over the shoulder boulder holder...

 

[Black Hand]

I always thought that was an over the shoulder boulder holder...

Brassiere...not Brazier. Both can burn you....

 

[Black Hand]

And it takes a bit longer'n when Captain Kirk did it.

It's also a bit more complicated...