Coals From The Fireplace

[Elektrobot]

So the weather is getting cold and its time to warm the house up a bit-

I've got this wood burning fireplace insert thing that heats the entire house if you load it up, but just a few logs are needed to take the chill off. http://www.napoleonfireplaces.com/Inserts/...serts/1402.html

I'll let you guess the natural progression of things.....

Ya- the red hot coals out of the wood burner are PERFECT for hookah!

When you burn wood in a sealed unit like this, the wood goes through gasification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification ) and the coals have no taste or odor to them whatsoever.

I have one of those giant coal carriers HJ sells, and I just open the door, load up the coal carrier, and pick coals out of it as the night goes on.

Fire is awesome

That is all Edited October 6, 2009 by Elektrobot

[mjdx88]

I suggest you avoid this....although you cannot smell or taste anything from these coals, you may be inhaling large amounts of CO and or chemicals you are unaware of.

This is a similar concept to using natural BBQ coals, they maybe treated to be odorless but you dont know what you are smoking.

Just my 2 cents,
Mike

BTW if you need cheap coals check out Afire coals.

Mike

[Elektrobot]

I suggest you avoid this....although you cannot smell or taste anything from these coals, you may be inhaling large amounts of CO and or chemicals you are unaware of.

This is a similar concept to using natural BBQ coals, they maybe treated to be odorless but you dont know what you are smoking.

Just my 2 cents,
Mike

BTW if you need cheap coals check out Afire coals.

Mike

I use coco's 100% of the time, but I just couldn't resist the urge to try this and it was awesome.

I think the wood in this stove goes through a more through combustion than a coal manufacturer would allow their biomass to go through (the longer the combustion, the less volume of coal you have left).

I might setup a little test rig with a CO tester and air pump to see which is better. Edited October 6, 2009 by Elektrobot

[chinamon]

using firewood coals are fine. it is the same as using bulk natural hookah coals such as lemonwood or whatever.
natural lump bbq coals are fine too. just stay away from the pressed/formed bbq briquettes.

[no longer welcome]

i've done this before, whether from a fire place or fir pit when you are just burning wood, they look so attractive, but these are not coals, they go out right away, and you feel bummed because they look perfect.

[jezter6]

I agree with John on this. I've tried (while camping) to just pull off a big hunk of orange coal and it just wasn't good.

1) It had a woody/smoky taste to the smoke (no kidding, huh?)
2) It went out in under 10 minutes
3) it ashed like crazy all over my rig
4) It started out too hot, and burned things, then died out to nothing too quickly.

[ezxen]

I agree with John on this. I've tried (while camping) to just pull off a big hunk of orange coal and it just wasn't good.

1) It had a woody/smoky taste to the smoke (no kidding, huh?)
2) It went out in under 10 minutes
3) it ashed like crazy all over my rig
4) It started out too hot, and burned things, then died out to nothing too quickly.

Ditti did it when camping

[frost91]

If you pull it out of your fireplace, it can be toxic for you. When Organic compounds(wood) burn in an area of limiting oxygen, Carbon monoxide is formed. The coal therefore produces carbon monoxide. However if burning outside in a open environment, there is more of an excess of Oxygen and therefore, the waste product is CO2 gas.