Compressed Charcoal is the perfect fuel to use with our Konro Grills, but can also be used on any other BBQ grill too. Made without binders, so there are no nasty chemicals to spoil the flavour of your cooking. It’s compressed from waste saw dust and wood chips at high pressures to create moulded hexagonal tubes that are consistently sized and shaped, meaning they’re easy to handle and burn cleanly. These tubes have a central hole to aid air flow, which ensures they burn evenly across your barbecue, with no hot or cold spots to manage.
Just like traditional binchotan, these briquettes can take some time to get hot and we recommend following the procedure below or see our pdf guide here for successful lighting.
Available in 1kg or 10kg packs.
Instructions for use of Binchotan briquettes:
Due to its density the briquettes can be hard to light, a charcoal chimney is highly recommended as a solution. Start by lighting some standard charcoal in your chimney then when hot, pour out and use this to ignite the Binchotan briquettes in the chimney. Lighting time is 45 minutes on average.
Move the Binchotan briquettes to your grill when white hot.
Open and close the air windows to reach the desired temperature
The density of Binchotan briquettes means it will stay at cooking temperature for up to 3 hours on open fire grills.
Charcoal can be extinguised and reused. To do so, when finished cooking, either place in fireproof container with lid or plunge in water. Once fully dried it will light again.
Remove the charcoal from your barbecue, do not pour water into the barbecue.
It can also be extinguished in an airtight pot of ceramic or steel.
