Question About Exotica Coals

[wliu003]

Do these coals contain sulfur? I know that ordinary coals do. The other night I used water to put out the coals and it gave out a strong and bad smelling odor. I know that when sulfur reacts with hydrogen it forms a compound that smells like rotten eggs. Any help with be appreciated.

[Hippo_Master]

I will totally bet they do. I stopped using them they smelled so bad on extinguishing.

[Bulldog_916]

Dont extinguish them with water perhaps? I keep a mini metal garbage can outside, put the hot coals in there.

[chinamon]

i just leave the coals on my bowl until they go out then i flush the ash down the toilet.
or i just throw them on to my street or leave them at the curb.

[Scoop]

if the coals have yellow spots on them, theres definitely sulphur

[erufiku]

Sulfur... wekk that's gotta be healthy!

[FactorE]

Coconaras FTW!

[redjako]

They do stink a bit on dunking them in water, and after Coco Nara's, I could "taste" exotica (though before I thought exotica's were the shit).

They are always uniformly black, no spotting of any kind

[Sonthert]

I would imagine they do.

When trees are turned into charcoal, the sulfur in their amino acids and proteins, goes into the charcoal too. They don't need to have sulfur added to have sulfur in them. All charcoal has sulfur in it unless it has been processed to remove it (Like Japanese Coals).

I believe that the presence of sulfur when burning sucks oxygen from the system which stops the carbon from burning all the way to carbon dioxide as much, producing carbon monoxide. People using regular, less processed charcoal and smoking a bowl describe a drowsy feeling, a stupor, or a headache which is consistent with carbon monoxide inhalation. Using Japanese coals at my lounge they assert the drowsiness is absent. Since I use Japanese charcoal, that would support my assertion.