Would you use lump charcoal or briquettes in a hibachi and why?
I have tried that with big lumps in the past. I get dirty and they can be hard to break into decent sized pieces. I usually only managed to break off little pieces. The one time I tried smash it with a rock, it broke into many small pieces.Lumps can be broken down.
That would probably work, but I'm sure I would still get dirty.Hammer and chisel time!
For a few years I lived in an old log cabin. We did have electricity and used it for cooking. But, I did "... go into the forest to cut wood and drag it back to the house and build a fire ...". We heated with wood. It was standing dead wood. If I had been cutting down live trees, they wouldn't have been much use in heating until the next year. I used a bow saw to cut down the trees and to cut them into suitable size for the 50 gallon drum wood stove.Grilling with live fire is a dirty business. Be glad you live in an era when you don't have to go into the forest to cut wood and drag it back to the house and build a fire in your wall-sized fireplace in your house.
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