Crazy Thoughts about a Charcoal Storage Container.

NPHuskerFL

Damn!  You're supposed to take the lump out of the bag?  

Mosca

There is a device in car detailing that fits in a 5 gallon bucket and does this. Grit Guard, available many places.

Abter

slightly off topic: charcoal dust and small pieces are great additions to a compost pile.  Unburned charcoal increases porosity, and also can help hold nutrients (on the particle surfaces) in the soil when you use the compost.  Lump avoids the problems of potentially getting chemical additives into your soil.  Charcoal ash is a different issue, and opinions are mixed about adding it to compost or directly into soil at all.  The calcium carbonate in ash makes them fairly alkaline.  If you have acidic soil, or are composting a lot of acidic material such as vegetable waste (typically quite acidic) you will be ok, at least in moderation. As always, pH testing your soil (and compost) is critical.

busmania

Make your own...$5. I still use mine ocassionally but now that I've been egging a while, kind of find it to be a useless, time wasting step unless the bag has lots of small pieces. http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1162787/my-voc-reducer-lump-filter

Tbla

Great.  I didn't even know I had this problem.    I gotta couple ideas involving a super-sized bucket and some sort of screen.   I'm a month out before I can work on this......  

motowfo

EGGcellent_Smithers.... EGGCELLENT Idea!! I may have to give that a try!!!

motowfo

Yumdinger... that's what I'm talking about!!!!  I appreciate the comments!!!

Botch

RRP said:
 
Yo, Jim...every time I get near the end I dump the bag in to a collector bag, after I get a little I bump it all into the hardware cloth sifter I made and then bump the good stuff into the coal bucket!

My Dad always used something like this.  Once Mom was carrying the steaks or burgers into the house, he'd pick up the the grill (cheap one, thinner than a Weber kettle) and dump the hot Kingsford briquets (lit with gasoline, of course) into this contraption on the gravel driveway and then poured a bucket of cold water over them, to put them out.  He'd later pick out the unburned pieces to use in the next cook.  Frugality raised during the Depression!