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Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 14, 2007, 08:00:48 AM: What do you do with your charcoal ashes?
You know. the ashes left over from BBqing

There has GOT to be some use for this stuff LOL
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Xargos on May 14, 2007, 08:09:47 AM: Hmmm, I'm not going there...Goodbye.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Ghosth on May 14, 2007, 08:11:20 AM: Yes you can save a barrel of it, trickle water through it, save the water, boil it off to make lye, and eventually make soap out of it.

Its a long hard process thats time consuming, smelly, hot, and dangerous at times. To end up with a soap that will probably peel your skin off, remove paint, and disintigrate clothing in a couple of washes.

OR you could just throw it in a garbage bag and send it to the dump.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Toad on May 14, 2007, 08:16:35 AM: Some folks use it in their garden; I just toss it.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Xargos on May 14, 2007, 08:17:33 AM: I must have been up for too long because when I read soap, my brain was telling me soup.:eek:
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Post by: Nilsen on May 14, 2007, 08:56:48 AM: I suppose you could save it for winter and use it to cover the yellow snow.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: storch on May 14, 2007, 09:20:25 AM: I toss it around my rose bushes. they seem to like it.
Title: Re: Charcoal ash
Post by: Odee on May 14, 2007, 09:53:24 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DREDIOCK
What do you do with your charcoal ashes?
You know. the ashes left over from BBqing

There has GOT to be some use for this stuff LOL
I use it in winter to de-ice the driveway and steps. Spring time it makes a great mixer with the horse apple fertilizer for the wife's garden. So if you count the BBQ pit, and three fireplaces at my house, I have plenty of ash to go around.

Add our two horses, and some mucked hay, and you have a steady supply of fertilizer... hmmm, I should bag that stuff and sell it to the farmers. Be the next Vanderbilt of this decade. :rofl :rofl
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: 68ROX on May 14, 2007, 10:31:40 AM: Being plants that thrive in hot, volcanic areas....

Hot peppers (I grow A LOT of Jalepenos, Habeneros, and Tobascos) seem to like some (about 20%) ash in the fertilized mulch/dirt I plant them in (5 gallon buckets).

BTW: Planting them in 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled around the bottom has been a big craze around there, as the plants can be brought indoors when the cold snap comes in the fall. The plants go dormant indoors for the winter (water ocasionally) and when Spring arrives, put back outside.

You get 2 crops a year out of them and they continue to grow like small trees.

My 4 year old habenero is laden with early peppers and is now over 3 feet tall. It has grown almost a foot since I transplanted it into the 5 gallon bucket.

I have seen Jalepeno plants locally grown in 5 gallon buckets get to over 7 feet high.

68ROX
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Odee on May 14, 2007, 10:43:17 AM: Yup... you should see the size of our tomatoes. Awesome stuff once you get the right mix down
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 14, 2007, 02:58:50 PM: Whle wood ash is supposed to be good for plants
Supposedly from what I've read.Charcoal ash is not because of the chemicals used in the bonding proccess.

Typically I've just tosse dthe stuff under bushes.
Hasnt seemed to hurt them and hey. Im not plannin on eating my shrubbery any time soon.
And if it ever came to that. I'd have alot more to worry about then the chemicals used. LOL

Wood ash I just mix in with my compost pile
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: LePaul on May 14, 2007, 04:15:27 PM: I thought charcoal was pushed together via high pressure in the manufacturing process?
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: majic on May 14, 2007, 04:44:10 PM: I believe it has some sort of binding agent.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: 68Hawk on May 14, 2007, 04:51:16 PM: get a bunch of those cheap leather pouches, with the strings around them and the beads.

fill the pouches

Bingo, you got a bunch of marketable portions of Jerry Garcia's ashes.

Find a concert and sell, just follow your nose.

Wouldn't put them on my driveway in the winter though, they'd track in something fierce.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Odee on May 14, 2007, 05:06:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by LePaul
I thought charcoal was pushed together via high pressure in the manufacturing process?
It is. However Matchlight has some added ingredients that are toxic, which mostly burns off by the time it goes to ash stage, unlike the charcoal fluid you pour on regular briquettes... Some of that stuff stays toxic in the ash.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: LePaul on May 14, 2007, 05:56:01 PM: Thank you, Odee-wan-Kenobi. You're my only hope ;)
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Odee on May 14, 2007, 06:00:53 PM: Quote
Originally posted by LePaul
Thank you, Odee-wan-Kenobi. You're my only hope ;)
:O You.... :huh you... :cry you let out my true secret identity? :lol

I didn't think anyone but the carpool would ever call me that. LOL
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: eskimo2 on May 14, 2007, 06:09:02 PM: Stick it in your vise; crank the handle really hard for a long time. You’ll get diamonds I hear!
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Post by: texasmom on May 14, 2007, 07:32:04 PM: home-made face camo for the kids when they're playing 'army.' just not fun if it gets in their eyes when they sweat.
Title: Charcoal ash
Post by: Odee on May 14, 2007, 11:08:03 PM: Quote
Originally posted by 68Hawk
...Wouldn't put them on my driveway in the winter though, they'd track in something fierce.
This is why Totes makes goloshes... or over boots, or Slip on boots.

Put on, go out for chores, take off on doorstep and place on towel near entry before going inside. No fuss and little muss.