Charcoal can be broadly divided into three types.
Each type has different characteristics based on the manufacturing method and the type of wood used as raw material.
Black Charcoal is easy to ignite, has high temperature and is elegant. Charcoal is made from eucalyptus, acacia, lychee, mangrove, cinnamon and other types of wood.
White charcoal (Binchotan) is hard, burns for a long time, and the temperature can be adjusted freely. Raw materials such as eucalyptus wood, coffee wood, longan wood, and grapefruit wood are slowly carbonized in a charcoal furnace. The characteristics of this type of charcoal are that it is smokeless, odorless, and does not explode when burned.
This charcoal is made by pressing sawdust without additives into hexagonal “Ogalight” at high temperature and pressure, then firing in a kiln. Affordable but high quality, smokeless, odorless like binchotan white charcoal.
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| raw materials | Eucalyptus wood, ly chee wood, acacia wood, orange wood, mangrove wood, etc. |
Eucalyptus wood, lychee wood, Maitieuw wood, wood, coffee wood.. | Eucalyptus wood, lychee wood, mixed wood from craft villages. |
| Manufacturing method | ・Fire extinguishing inside the kiln (after carbonization, the kiln mouth is closed to cut off air and extinguish the fire) |
・Extinguishing the fire outside the kiln (at the end of the carbonization process, the charcoal, which is scorching hot at over 1000 degrees, is removed from the kiln and extinguished by covering it with ash or sand) |
“Ogalight” is made by pressing additive-free sawdust under high temperature and pressure into a rod shape, which is then baked and carbonized. Depending on the baking temperature, it can be baked to produce either a white charcoal finish or a black charcoal finish. |
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| Main Scenes | Yakiniku/Yakitori/Izakaya/Steak/Genghis Khan/Robatayaki/Hamayaki/BBQ/Irori/Indian cuisine | Yakitori/Eel/Yakiniku/Italian | Yakiniku/Yakitori/Eel/Izakaya/Steak/Indian food/Italian/Genghis Khan/Robatayaki/Hamayaki/BBQ/Irori |
| merit | ・It catches fire easily (because it is soft) ・It has strong heat (because it is soft, it burns vigorously) |
-Long burning time (because it is hard) -Freely adjust the heat with a single fan (adjustable by how hard you fan it) |
・Long burning time (because it is hard) ・You can choose between white charcoal finish and black charcoal finish ・Safety as it will not fly off ・Economical (because it is made from sawdust produced during lumber processing) |
| Disadvantages | – Burning time is relatively short (because it is soft and flammable) | ・It is difficult to ignite (because it is hard) ・It will burst if heated suddenly (it needs to ignite slowly) |
・It is difficult to ignite (because it is hard) |
