Charcoal Briquettes In Wood Stove

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.

Charcoal briquettes in wood stove.

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. In fact wood briquettes are generally better for wood burning stoves than logs are. Also spelled briquet is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material e g. Wood briquettes burn hotter than logs but as not as hot as coal so they are perfectly safe in either a wood burning stove or a multi fuel stove.

They re inexpensive and easy to get burning evenly especially if you use a charcoal starter. Traditional logs by comparison are considered suitable for burning when below 20 and most winter purchased logs are around 30 moisture content. Charcoal briquettes make a convenient and reliable choice. Coal burns much hotter than wood so coal based products can damage a wood burning stove.

Wood burning stoves are not designed to burn as hot as multi fuel stoves ones which can burn either wood or coal. Briquettes are the hot new thing for your wood burning stove so cut out the logs hugely popular elsewhere in europe briquettes are beginning to take off in the uk and they re good for your. 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.