High quality Black Charcoal

Procedure in Making Ordinary or Black Charcoal

Generally, to make black charcoal the wood is carbonized (partial burning with little air) at temperatures between 400 and 700 °C, then the kiln is sealed until the burning stops and the heat slowly dies away. You can now see the surface of the charcoal is black. Black charcoal is soft and retains the outer layer of the wood. It is also easy to ignite and burns hot enough that it was used as fuel for tea ceremony, and ordinary daily food cooking including industrial use during the former times.

Charcoals produced around the world are mostly soft black charcoal type. I believe this has become the standard type of charcoal worldwide. Standard charcoal is good and highly flammable. Some other people call it "careless charcoal" or "domestic charcoal".

 Charcoal has been used since earliest times for a large range of purposes including art and medicine, but by far its most important use has been as a metallurgical fuel. Charcoal is the traditional fuel of a blacksmith's forge and other applications where an intense heat is required. Charcoal was also used historically as a source of black pigment by grinding it up. In this form charcoal was important to early chemists and was a constituent of formulas for mixtures such as black powder. Due to its high surface area charcoal can be used as a filter, and as a catalyst or as an adsorbent.