Briquettes are made from raw charcoal that s mixed with binding materials to make the familiar bricks.
Charcoal briquettes in wood stove.
In fact wood briquettes are generally better for wood burning stoves than logs are.
Charcoal sawdust wood chips peat or paper used for fuel and kindling to start a fire the term derives from the french word brique meaning brick.
Traditional logs by comparison are considered suitable for burning when below 20 and most winter purchased logs are around 30 moisture content.
Coal burns much hotter than wood so coal based products can damage a wood burning stove.
They re inexpensive and easy to get burning evenly especially if you use a charcoal starter.
A stove as in claim 3 wherein the grate includes a perforated web for supporting thereon charcoal briquettes being combusted and wherein said grate web is provided with a plurality of air flow apertures therethrough arranged with the air flow aperture of largest area located in the center of the web and with openings of decreasing area size.
Wood briquettes not to be confused with coal or charcoal briquettes are a woodfuel made from compressed dry sawdust and or wood chips they will usually have less than 10 moisture content.
Wood briquettes generally have a water content moisture content of under 10.
Charcoal briquettes make a convenient and reliable choice.
Most high quality briquettes are dried down to under 6.
Also spelled briquet is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material e g.