how do you make charcoal brikette?

Answer 1

You burn some hardwood a little

Answer 2

Charcoal is made by burning wood (usually) in an oxygen poor environment. To make the briquette charcoal is ground, then mixed w/ a binder (usually a starch and water), clay (so it will have that nice "ashy white look" as it burns) and sometimes other ingredients. It is then compressed into the desired shape. Small chips of mesquite, hickory or other dry wood is sometimes put in the mix for "smoke flavoring".

The best charcoal and charcoal briquettes are made from hardwoods such as ash, maple and oak. Softwoods such as alder, cottonwood and fir are used in less expensive charcoal.

Other burnables such as rice and oat hulls, corncobs, etc. can also be made into charcoal.

Answer 3

Do you smoke? If you could see the lungs of a career smoker you would see they make charcoal bricketts in their bronchial's everyday.

Answer 4

You don't have to. Kingsford makes bags of the stuff.