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Ctwoodtick
Minister of Fire
I think you mean an EPA stove. I haven’t heard of making charcoal in a woodstove. Do you mean like to use for a grill?
I've made biochar in the stove as an experiment. This was done by taking two large tomato cans, punching a few holes around their bases, then crimping the end of one and filling it with wood chips. The two cans are then crammed together to make a vessel. I put the assembly on a hot coal bed and left it there until it stopped smoking. This made some nice charcoal. If you want biochar for the garden then grind the charcoal finer with a old blender.
There’s a guy I watch on YouTube Shawn James that has made charcoal in his wood stove. If I remember correctly he had a sealed metal box he would fill with kindling sized pieces and place it on top of the coals inside the firebox.
I have a friend that has mastered this technique and developed the 55 gallon TLUD into an extraordinary clean burning system. He makes a lot of biochar and continues to develop new models ( I think he is on about #25 by now). It burns so cleanly that there is no smoke and amazingly very little if any smoke smell.
Thanks that is what I was thinking of doing. Looking to get heat and just enough charcoal for my new big green egg.
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I did this thought experiment when I first got my big Joe. You will figure out that the cheap lump charcoal does fine for some cooks. Others not so much. Get a couple bags of jealous devil or Kamado Joe for the pizza nights or 12+ hour cooks when they are on sale. No way you could make charcoal that dense with oak. Maybe if you had madrone, you could get close. Explore the world of cold smoking with a pellet smoker tube. Cook on don’t get hung up on how to make cheap charcoal.
I've never tryed that before for cooking. When I did make charcoal it was for forging.
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