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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 22, 2012 7:23:26 GMT 12.75
In a post, God knows where; I saw a table that compared hardwood coals to Kingsford briquettes.
For instance, where the recipe called for six briquette, to get the same heat you'd use X number of hardwood coals.
Gotta tell ya too; hardwood's tough to find around here. I'm going to start looking for pallets to bust up and burn.
Anyway; do any of you guys recall such a post/link???
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Post by brittonfaith on Aug 22, 2012 9:23:09 GMT 12.75
I don't remember a chart. But I do remember a discussion about coals vs briquettes. Hard one to answer. Most of my experience using wood includes providing fire for heat and ambience as well as cooking. I'm figuring burn time then or figure burning for ten hours a day I'll use about a chord a week. 1/7 of a chord a day or 70 hours per chord, 35 hours a pick up load; like that. If you are looking for quantities of coals to equate to briquetts for temperature control that's even harder. Just pile them on there and keep them live and check your pot every few minutes, turning both your lid and your pot every few minutes. Cooking too fast remove some, too slow add more. Use your touch to "feel" how much heat there is by holding your hand near the heat and counting the seconds. You'll be able to build yourself a mental scale pretty shortly. Use your nose too. When chow starts to smell good it is getting done. TT is right about the creosote in that pine so if you heat rocks don't go tossin' them in the soup pot to heat it up. To save your back, you can pre-position wood stores along your route or carry charcoal with you. used just for cooking you ought to be able to get about an hour of cook time per pot per pound of charcoal. So two pots cooking five hours would be about ten pounds of bricks. Kingsford is the standard. I agree with what he said. Did a year on top of that old Ashley woodburner burning pallets before we moved here. Then the first year here cooking mostly on the brush piles. Scooped coals out of the firebox and set them on the lids to bake. On the campfire, I pull out a couple small sticks and set them whole directly on the lid or around the sides of the pot. After a while, you just kinda know what works. Your nose and ears will even get in tune with how "done" things are on the fire before they get a chance to burn. Lot has to do with the size of the coals and how hot they are. And when you start to get real good, you'll know at what point to douse your burning logs so you got charcoal for later usage. Make ya a trip east before snow flies and we can give you a fireside demo.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 22, 2012 15:43:58 GMT 12.75
I'd like that fireside Demo plenty!!! ;D
Always did figure to slide my knees under your table one day and wrassle Mike for the last biscuit!
Yeah, I remembered that info and was glad you brought it back up. I'm going to lay in a few bags of Kingsford too, but I'm also picking up whatever hardwood pallets I come across and..... I just got a place to do a little bear hunting. I drove out there today to do a little scouting and there's a heckuva lot of aspen laying down that got caught under a small avalanche looks like. So, I'm going to cut and gather what I can of that; far as I know there's no creosote in them, theu all look to be about five to eight inches in diameter...not to big, but still, if it'll burn good; might as well make use of it.
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Post by brittonfaith on Aug 22, 2012 16:08:31 GMT 12.75
What I call aspen is what's called silver or quaking poplar here. Burns nice for a cookfire. Only thing I got against it rots down fairly fast if allowed to get wet. Makes for great 'shroom growing medium though.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 23, 2012 9:17:29 GMT 12.75
No worries of it getting very wet out here; very, very arid.
Never thought about shrooms... Now I gotta go hunting!!! ;D
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Post by Paws on Aug 23, 2012 20:56:04 GMT 12.75
I'd like that fireside Demo plenty!!! ;D Always did figure to slide my knees under your table one day and wrassle Mike for the last biscuit! Yeah, I remembered that info and was glad you brought it back up. I'm going to lay in a few bags of Kingsford too, but I'm also picking up whatever hardwood pallets I come across and..... I just got a place to do a little bear hunting. I drove out there today to do a little scouting and there's a heckuva lot of aspen laying down that got caught under a small avalanche looks like. So, I'm going to cut and gather what I can of that; far as I know there's no creosote in them, theu all look to be about five to eight inches in diameter...not to big, but still, if it'll burn good; might as well make use of it. Put you a wood shed together then build another one and call it a smoke house. That Aspen ought to make good tinder and burns quick and hot so should be good for cook fires for frying, coffee, and such. You able to use the sod there for adobe or calichi brick?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 24, 2012 5:07:19 GMT 12.75
Might could, but I ain't seen nobody doing such... That red sod gets hard as concrete with no water. Just laying in some fence posts damn near takes all a feller can stand!
Yep, gona take the old saw out and find myself a big pile of them downed aspens and get to work. Ain't got a wood shed, but I got a stakes down tarp to cover the pile.
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Post by Two Tales on Aug 24, 2012 8:35:32 GMT 12.75
toby cut and strip some green cedars to lay on the hround to stack you wood on...that way it'll keep the bugs away and water off the bottom of the wood...
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 24, 2012 14:47:36 GMT 12.75
That's a good tip there TT, thanks!!!
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