[HN Gopher] Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Popu...
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       Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Popularize Charcoal
       Briquets
        
       Author : RickJWagner
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2024-01-25 12:48 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | > there are plenty of backyard barbecuers that would rather do
       | their grilling over hot coals, specifically charcoal briquets.
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       | Better yet, lump charcoal. My kamodo-style grill has a porous
       | ceramic body, and using briquets does nothing but ensure that
       | everything you cook on it afterwards will taste of lighter fluid
       | -- but even on the weber, lump's far nicer.
        
         | aidenn0 wrote:
         | It seems that if what you're cooking tastes of lighter fluid,
         | perhaps that's because you're using too much lighter fluid?
         | Unless you are talking about briquettes that contain a
         | petroleum-derived accelerant, in which case I can only point
         | you to the ones that do not.
        
       | georgecmu wrote:
       | I'm disappointed the article neglects to mention the use of
       | actual coal in Kingsford briquettes. I imagine charcoal alone
       | would not be energy-rich enough to get the temperatures.
       | 
       | Anyway, the environmental permit applications for their plant in
       | West Virginia (close proximity to coal) are available online and
       | make for interesting reading:
       | https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/titlevpermits/Documents/Ma...
       | https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/titlevpermits/Documents/No...
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       | For example, one can learn that their VOC emissions are in excess
       | of 100 tons/year or that they can use 80,000 tons of coal per
       | year. I guess folks that are willing to saturate their food in
       | vapors of lighting fluid wouldn't care about a little bit of
       | coal...
        
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