 Okay guys as you've seen We made a fire, okay? We made a fire because today we're gonna be making our own charcoal And I'm gonna show you how that charcoal works later on when I make supper, okay? So what what we've got here is we got this paint can this is just a quart can it's not actually a paint can It's a polyurethane can okay, and we've got our lid now. Yes, it's already burnt now It's already burnt for a reason because I wanted to burn it and get Anything toxic out of there once you burn these there's nothing toxic in there left whatsoever now You can buy these cans that say Lowe's I think or you know Paint stores they'll sell these cans empty But you still want to have to burn them because they have a liner inside You want to burn them until there's no more flames coming out see so Okay, now we're gonna what we're going to do is we're going to cut up some of this wood here That's laying over here this two before Don't you don't want to use pressure-treated, okay? Do not use that if especially if you're going to be cooking This is not a pressure-treated piece of lumber. That's just a piece of pine And if you're going to be cooking with this stuffers a lot you can do with charcoal You can make black powder with it, which we're not going to do We're just going to use it for cooking You would probably want to use like an oak a cherry Apple walnut something like at a hardwood, but this is what I've got here now. You can also cut up little hunks of of you know Branches tree branches in and whatnot, but I'm just going to use this just proof of concept But I've done this many times before and I've seen a lot of youtubers doing it So I thought well, you know, I never made a video on it So that's what I'm going to do right now. Now. This is the lid when we're ready once I get everything Cut up and everything I'm going to this is just a quart can now if you're using a gallon can You might want to put three holes maybe a three six tenths in diameter. Don't have to be perfectly that size It's just a rough estimate, but I think I'm only going to put one pencil size Maybe two in this can in this in this lid and what we're going to do We're going to pack this as tight as we can with the wood that we're going to cut up from From that piece of two before right there. It's just pine. I know I should be using hardwood, but I don't have any That's not pressure treated. Okay, and then we're gonna fill this up. We're gonna put our lid on here I'm not gonna put any holes in the bottom a lot of guys will do that You don't have to do that and it's probably best if you don't so that way you don't have to babysit as much We're gonna put this on the fire that we have going on over there, and then we're gonna burn it It's a Usually a gallon takes about 45 minutes, but so this might not take as long But I'll show you once we put it on there It'll start getting hot the lid's going to be tight and there'll be gases coming out of here from the wood and They'll actually ignite and once it does you'll see a nice flame on there And then once the flame goes out you'll be about ready It shouldn't be done and you'll have your charcoal and you take the lid off and you dump your charcoal out now for what? I'm gonna be cooking tonight, so I'm probably gonna have to make two batches, but I'll show you the first batch how we do it and So what I'm gonna do first is I'm gonna drag my extension cord over here and let's cut up some wood We're gonna stuff this can full of wood and then we'll put our holes in here I'm probably just gonna punch them with a with a screw driver or something, you know You know just a couple holes there now once that's done you take it out of the fire and then you want to have an old wet rag or something and Throw it right on top of it and you let it sit and cool down Okay, and it doesn't take all that long to cool But make sure it's cool that you you can touch it without gloves on and then it's cool enough But make sure you cover that up once you pull that out of the fire Stick that rag on top and I'll show you all that later, too So right now let me get set up so we can get get this wood cut up And we'll get get it put in our can and then we'll get it put on the fire Sorry about the wind guys. It is windy today, but I don't want to do this in a garage make a mess I don't want to do it out front. I want to do it out back there where we're gonna have the fire So I'm not walking back and forth does not walking that great yet So and besides it's a beautiful day the wind does feel good, but it's still very hot So let's start getting this cut up. I'm just gonna cut it up and little hunks so we can fill our can up with it Okay, can you guys see all right? There's what we've got there all of them all these nice hunks wood. We're gonna I probably should go a little smaller about this size here And I'm gonna fill these up now you you can also use any kind of like a paint stirrer They give those things way you can use those and You're gonna now this not gonna be like match light. You're gonna have to have some kind of accelerant. So Which I'm just gonna use a little alcohol because I don't have any any Lighter fluid charcoal lighter lighter fluid or you can use zippo flow Whatever you got handy, but if you're real conscious about conscious about that You can use a paper towel and some vegetable oil or Sunflower oil What's the other one extra virgin olive oil you can use that that stuff as well to get it started and You'll be fine, but we'll get into that here here shortly after we get this all ready to go So we're gonna get these packed in here as tight as we can get them I'm gonna go ahead and make a cup with these a little smaller and Then we're gonna punch our holes in our lid Okay, so I've got my hammer in my screwdriver. This is a little screwdriver. So But I still think I'm only gonna need to put I'm just gonna put two holes in it just like that. That's good enough for this can We've got our wood stockpiled in there the best they can then we're gonna put This lid on just like you would If you were fainting something or done painting something with something, you know Make sure that's on there. Okay. Nice and easy. I kind of hit it too hard But I think I'll still be able to use this can with no issues Now we're gonna take it over we're gonna stuff the fire and get it put on the fire, but before we do that I Found him found bigfoot. He's living in our backyard Look at this. There's his fur. I'm out front. I catch him doing that. I'm stopping his fucking ass There's his fur Right there. Look whole glob of it. He's been in a fight Look at what you guys think that is That's not Bruno's fur But it's red fur. I Don't know what it is Okay, back to the fire. Okay guys. We're ready for a can Now if you're using a gallon can of course, you're gonna need a bigger fire But this one might suffice it still got some wood I can throw on if it's not done in time Like I said, I may have to make a couple batches, but I'll show you this one. Let's get it set down here on the fire down in there nice and nice and good It don't have to set perfectly Square, you know, but you kind of want it setting up a little bit Like you don't want it on its side, but you know that that will be good there now Here in a couple minutes, I'll go ahead and fast forward this and You'll be able to see smoke start rising up through there You see the see the smoke coming up out of there just like that now here in a minute those are Those are our gases from the wood that's inside there You can actually run an internal combustion engine on that stuff So let's let it let's let it do its thing and we'll come back when there's flames coming up out of there Okay, guys, I don't know if you can see that or not, but you see right on top of that can those flames right there Sam See them flames coming out of there. That's what we want And we want to keep burning that until those flames are no longer there until nothing's coming out there, but smoke Okay, see them So that's that's pretty cool. So we are on our way. See check it out. See that So we're on our way to making charcoal, that's what we are doing right now I still have another batch to make again, but you're only gonna see this batch and then When we're done with this you'll see me Cooking monkey supper on homemade charcoal and the good thing about that is it's natural wood You know, you can get it from stuff laying on the ground like Like that right there You can cut that up and you can put it in that can Whatever just like I said make sure there's no creosote no paint You don't want that none of that on there And like I said if you're going to use it for cooking hardwoods best apple cherry oak walnut something in the nature of that and It would even be better, but for what we're we're going to do that's going to be fine. I think she wants me to make some chicken. I Wish I had a gallon can but all my gallon cans have good paint in them. So and That'd be a little harder to clean out than what that was so I'm just gonna make a couple batches here And then we'll do that. So I'll get back with you. Look at that. Isn't that cool? So I'll get back with you as soon as that's done. I'll show you how to put the rag over it which is self-explanatory But I'll still show you There's a good view of it. It's starting to die down though. So we're getting close to being able to take it off and Putting the rag on it and let it cool down. I've got the rag ready and everything so I've got More wood here for the next batch Well for the fire for the next batch. I've already got it cut up and ready to put in the cans. So Soon as that dies out We're gonna take it off the fire Throw a rag on it. We'll let it cool now If the lid like keeps popping off of that don't be alarmed It's no big deal. Just kind of get something and tap it back on or whatever It just means that you know, maybe you didn't have enough holes in there because that those are gases coming out And they will build up if if you don't have enough holes, but like I said, I put two holes in that one So it should be okay Okay guys, it's starting to peter out. I think we got it. It looks like that's about it boom shaka laka okay Let's see our charcoal Remember guys this ain't gonna be a whole lot because it's a little can but I found a little bit of a bigger can With a veil on it so I can I've already got it on the fire I've already got my second batch cooking so Let's see how we did. Let's see that in there Not cool That is pure unadulterated charcoal Now you can also use this for medicine You can use it for war paint You can but you can use it for walk water filtration system That doesn't look like much but there's there's quite a bit in there and I've got my second batch on there I'm gonna go and make a third batch just for the hell of it. Okay, but I've already got my second batch on there Because if you guys see this right here That's a citronella candle So I kind of melted it out of the bucket I'm using the bucket I Just got busted Anyway, I'll show you the other one. Oops If there's the other one see it's got a veil on it I can lift it out there a lot easier and it holds more wood. So All right Now soon as I get this all made We're gonna make us make ourselves a little grill and we're gonna cook some food on this charcoal Okay, guys, this is the pile of charcoal. I've got I've got a lot of charcoal here more than what I need But I just wanted to show you guys how much you can get just from them two little cans Okay Now what I'm going to use to light this is I've got a paper towel underneath here and I'm just going to use this Alcohol this is 91% now. I know what a lot you guys are gonna say you can't use that I'll make food taste funny. No, it won't it's alcohol. It will burn away. You won't taste it None of that. I would rather use this stuff than I would lighter fluid. Okay, so You're just going to take it just like you would regular charcoal And get it saturated on there And then once you once you get it lit you're going to want to burn down just like you would regular charcoal You know until it's white ash. That's what you want to cook on. You don't want to cook on the flames Okay, so there's that it's pretty well saturated now You're going to want to let that set for a minute so it can get get soaked up in there and absorbed up Okay, so I'm going to let it soak for I don't know about a minute and a half and I'll be back with you Okay, guys, so I've let this saturate and soak so I'm going to just use a match here light this up Always stand back. There you go Now you're going to want want to let that burn down Let me move you back here a little bit so you don't burn your nose off Now you're going to want to let that burn down Just like you would regular charcoal just till you know until it's like a white ash Now white ash is very very hot and that's what you cook on so I Knew a guy a few years ago When I lived in Ohio has been a while several years ago He was like 72 or 73 and he was always complaining that he's meat was burning on the outside. It tasted like Lighter fluid and it was cold on the inside while he didn't know that you had to let the flames die out He was cooking over flames like that. Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to let that Burn down then I'm going to Make a nice layer of coals there and I'll set up my grill and then we're going to throw some chicken on there See that's kind of what you're looking for right there. See how red and Everything that is see that white hot ash. I was talking about right there. That's what you're looking for this This is hot guys. That's very very hot. You can cook a lot of stuff on that I'm just that little bit right there. So let me get my grill set up here. Do you have our chicken out here? I know a lot of guys a lot of people like to put foil On there, but I don't care to do it that way, but you can if you want it doesn't hurt, you know It's just a matter of preference. That's all It doesn't hurt a thing because there's no pathogens or anything gonna live on that, you know So we're ready throw some chicken on there guys but Let's let let's let this get real nice and hot for when we put our chicken on there It's gonna grill it now what I've done is I've boiled my chicken. So I don't have to cook it a real long time on here But you don't have to I just do it cuz it's a little quicker So let's give that a few minutes to get hot and then we'll throw our chicken on there. I've got it marinating Okay, let's start some chicken on here. I've made my own barbecue sauce marinade. I Made it out of barbecue sauce homemade barbecue sauce and some other stuff. I'll show you that sometime later. Leave it me a Comment and in the comments and I'll show you how to make that if you want to know how to make it now This has been I like the to marinate them 24 hours, but I really wasn't planning on doing this So this has only been marinating for about six hours, but it'll be fine So and what I've done is I've took some of this marinade with my little brush and I brushed it on here First so that way it kind of seasons the grill Hear that Now this is not going to take too long. It's only going to take You know about a minute per side Now I'm putting it bone side down first and then I'll flip it over just take some of my marinade here Make sure it's got plenty on it. Yeah, let it drip down onto them hot coals. Oh Yeah Pretty good. All right, I'll be back with you in just a minute All right guys, it's been about two minutes Maybe three. I'll check these flip them over Oh Yeah, look at that. I Don't I don't know if you guys can hear them sizzling but look at the griddle marks awesome very nice Get this one Very nice. Very very nice. Now. Let me let them cook for a little bit and I'll take them off and show you the finished product Okay, guys, I wish you could hear them popping and sizzling. Let's get these plated up. Oh Yeah, look at that. You can turn them if you want them a little darker than that Look at that nice And that'll stay hot for a while where you could also roast marshmallows on it hot dogs, whatever And get you in the shot here. Look at that. They're pretty aren't they then if you want You take some more of your marinade if I'm getting a shot here Just kind of go over them a little bit. Give them a little bit of a shine You're gonna want to let these rest for, you know, four or five minutes not too long maybe even three to four but there you go and That's how you do it. That's how you make your charcoal. Okay guys, I just want to say thanks for watching All in all this doesn't really take that long if you're outside doing something You're having a fire anyway, you know making some charcoal, you know, I mean If you don't have that many fires or anything if you if you really don't have the time Yeah, by all means just go pick you up a bag But I had a little time today. I'm still you know recuperating, but So I just kind of took my time walked around a little bit, you know had to exercise my leg and stuff anyway But this is this is what it is right here. I want to thank you guys for all your support Thanks for watching and Thanks for You know bearing with the wind noise, and I'm sorry about that. I Don't have a wireless lapel mic for this camera so but Thanks again guys Hopefully, you know if you try it, let me know if you tried it different ways Let me know there are a couple different ways and if you plan on trying it Let me know in the comments below. All right. All right guys I'm gonna go in and get monkey fed and get myself fed and I'm gonna relax for a while So thanks again guys appreciate it. Shea bear the myth of man alleged. I'm gone for now. You all be cool Have a great week. Bye. Bye