Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

"Dave" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave


your local petrol station?

mark

mark wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave


your local petrol station?

Tried 3 and they have only coal bricks for sale

Dave

B&Q !

Ash wrote:
B&Q !

I'll be trying them tomorrow. It was past 9 pm when we were looking.

Dave

Dave wrote:
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

Seeing as this is a DIY group I think you should post haste cut down a
tree, preferably one with some dry / dead branches. Then chop the timber
into small pieces. Then dig a deep pit and put the timber in there and
set fire to it. Cover with earth and allow it to burn while starved of
oxygen. By tomorrow you should have a plentiful supply of charcoal :-)

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I'm doubtless too late but:

David in Normandy wrote:

Dave wrote:
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

Seeing as this is a DIY group I think you should post haste cut down a
tree, preferably one with some dry / dead branches. Then chop the timber
into small pieces. Then dig a deep pit and put the timber in there and
set fire to it. Cover with earth and allow it to burn while starved of
oxygen. By tomorrow you should have a plentiful supply of charcoal :-)

Very dry wood is the nub. Why cover it with earth when you can use it
immediately?

1)Take small metal container, 205 litre drum with top cut off is ideal.
Light very small fire in bottom, once burning brightly add small twigs to
top of fire, being careful to maintain flame, keep building up char bed by
this process until full of char. You can do the same in the 205 litre
container split longitudinally jut above the centre with no holes in the
bottom and then cook on it directly the flame die down. The wood needs to
be dry and no bigger than 2" diameter or cross section otherwise the middle
is still drying and pyrolysing whilst the outside is trying to burn.

or for damper wood

2)find 25 litre litre tin can, open top like a bean tin so the lid is
hinged, fill with tightly packed small dimension wood. Wire lid closed.
Invert 25 litre container in aforementioned 205 litre container, again light
fire in the bottom of the container but this time you can add a few air
holes at the bottom. It's best if the 25 litre lid at the bottom is bedded
in some old ash to prevent air getting to the char but to allow pyrolysis
offgas out to join the fire.

AJH

andrew wrote:
I'm doubtless too late but:

David in Normandy wrote:

Dave wrote:
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave
Seeing as this is a DIY group I think you should post haste cut down a
tree, preferably one with some dry / dead branches. Then chop the timber
into small pieces. Then dig a deep pit and put the timber in there and
set fire to it. Cover with earth and allow it to burn while starved of
oxygen. By tomorrow you should have a plentiful supply of charcoal :-)

Very dry wood is the nub. Why cover it with earth when you can use it
immediately?

1)Take small metal container, 205 litre drum with top cut off is ideal.
Light very small fire in bottom, once burning brightly add small twigs to
top of fire, being careful to maintain flame, keep building up char bed by
this process until full of char. You can do the same in the 205 litre
container split longitudinally jut above the centre with no holes in the
bottom and then cook on it directly the flame die down. The wood needs to
be dry and no bigger than 2" diameter or cross section otherwise the middle
is still drying and pyrolysing whilst the outside is trying to burn.

or for damper wood

2)find 25 litre litre tin can, open top like a bean tin so the lid is
hinged, fill with tightly packed small dimension wood. Wire lid closed.
Invert 25 litre container in aforementioned 205 litre container, again light
fire in the bottom of the container but this time you can add a few air
holes at the bottom. It's best if the 25 litre lid at the bottom is bedded
in some old ash to prevent air getting to the char but to allow pyrolysis
offgas out to join the fire.

No 2 is very interesting, but too complicated for Scout leaders to grasp
fast :-(

No. 1 is a no go due to the rain that fell today.

Many thanks

Dave

p.s.

I have noted and printed all the good ideas for next time I have to
drive round finding what the Scouts didn't think of.

David in Normandy wrote:
Dave wrote:
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

Seeing as this is a DIY group I think you should post haste cut down a
tree, preferably one with some dry / dead branches. Then chop the timber
into small pieces. Then dig a deep pit and put the timber in there and
set fire to it. Cover with earth and allow it to burn while starved of
oxygen. By tomorrow you should have a plentiful supply of charcoal :-)

Can't hire a chainsaw till am. by that time, I won't have time to make
charcoal that Scouters have failed to purchase :-)

In all my experience, they have never been prepared :-(

I'm not a Scouter.

Dave

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:28 +0000, Dave
had this to say:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Boy Scouts should be quite capable of making a fire without charcoal.

--
Frank Erskine

Frank Erskine wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:28 +0000, Dave
had this to say:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Boy Scouts should be quite capable of making a fire without charcoal.

Unfortunately, self combustion produces far more bad fats into the meat
than does frying.

Dave

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Check out your local Aldi - they may be selling off their Charcoal Chimneys
at £3 each. For those that don't know them, they are steel cylinders that
make lighting charcoal a 1 match jobby.

Fill with charcoal - stuff bottom with 2 crumpled sheets of newspaper. Light
newspaper with match. Come back in 10-15 minutes, tip out and start BBQ.

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/chimney.html

Webers are £15 upwards.

OG wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Check out your local Aldi - they may be selling off their Charcoal Chimneys
at £3 each. For those that don't know them, they are steel cylinders that
make lighting charcoal a 1 match jobby.

Fill with charcoal - stuff bottom with 2 crumpled sheets of newspaper. Light
newspaper with match. Come back in 10-15 minutes, tip out and start BBQ.

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/chimney.html

Webers are £15 upwards.

Oh! that's interesting. Looks like I am going to be very busy
a.m.

On Oct 30, 11:37 pm, Dave wrote:
OG wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Check out your local Aldi - they may be selling off their Charcoal Chimneys
at £3 each. For those that don't know them, they are steel cylinders that
make lighting charcoal a 1 match jobby.

Fill with charcoal - stuff bottom with 2 crumpled sheets of newspaper. Light
newspaper with match. Come back in 10-15 minutes, tip out and start BBQ..

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/chimney.html

Webers are £15 upwards.

Oh! that's interesting. Looks like I am going to be very busy
a.m.

large old "nescafe" tin open at both ends - dib dib

JimK

JimK wrote:
On Oct 30, 11:37 pm, Dave wrote:
OG wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(
Check out your local Aldi - they may be selling off their Charcoal Chimneys
at £3 each. For those that don't know them, they are steel cylinders that
make lighting charcoal a 1 match jobby.
Fill with charcoal - stuff bottom with 2 crumpled sheets of newspaper. Light
newspaper with match. Come back in 10-15 minutes, tip out and start BBQ.
http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/chimney.html
Webers are £15 upwards.
Oh! that's interesting. Looks like I am going to be very busy
a.m.

large old "nescafe" tin open at both ends - dib dib

JimK

I found out after I posted this, that they are staying at our local fire
fighters training centre.

FFS if they can't come up with a solution, I don't know who can :-)

Dave

Dave wrote on Oct 30, 2009:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

My local co-op supermarket was selling bags of briquets recently.

--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
email: mike_lane at mac dot com

Mike Lane wrote:
Dave wrote on Oct 30, 2009:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Dave

My local co-op supermarket was selling bags of briquets recently.

I would need to know how big the store was before going to our local
one, which is about 5 miles away and is quite tiny.

Thanks

Dave

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Burn down the Scout Hut.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

Burn down the Scout Hut.


:-) Unfortunately, it is brick built. I have felt like doing this many
times over the years.

Be prepared. RAOTFLMAO.

Most Scout outings are like this.

Many thanks for all your help though.

Dave

wrote:
On 30 Oct,
Dave wrote:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts are
having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what, they
forgot to get the charcoal :-(

You can't have trained them properly. They should be able to produce their
own.

Modern H&S may prevent it :-(

I'm not the Scouter, but I am married to one :-(

Dave

Dave wrote:
wrote:
On 30 Oct,
Dave wrote:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts
are having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what,
they forgot to get the charcoal :-(

You can't have trained them properly. They should be able to produce
their own.

Modern H&S may prevent it :-(

I'm not the Scouter, but I am married to one :-(

Ah. So forgetting the charcoal was your fault then? :-)


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Dave wrote:
wrote:
On 30 Oct,
Dave wrote:

Can anyone tell me where I can get charcoal from tomorrow? Scouts
are having a sleep over and barbecue tomorrow night and guess what,
they forgot to get the charcoal :-(
You can't have trained them properly. They should be able to produce
their own.

Modern H&S may prevent it :-(
I'm not the Scouter, but I am married to one :-(

Ah. So forgetting the charcoal was your fault then? :-)

How could that be, she is hardly speaking to me these days:-)

Dave