“When the power is out and the gas bottle is empty, using homemade charcoal and a cheap Thai cooker gets you back up and cooking”
Charcoal boils a kettle as fast as gas, is smokeless and doesn’t make your pots and pans sooty. Managed correctly, charcoal as a cooking fuel can be an environmentally sustainable and inexpensive fuel to complement your everyday cooking. Cooking with homemade charcoal can take domestic cooking “off-grid” by reducing our absolute dependence on centralised supplies of fossil fuel energy.
At the workshop, participants will have a hands-on go at making a batch of charcoal from wood scrap, cooking on a Thai cooker and exploring the use of charcoal for garden soil health.
- Date/Time: Sunday 22 March, 9am – 3pm
- Venue: Bellingen – Northbank Community Garden
- Cost: $60, includes morning tea
Contact: Zoe on {mobile prefix oh four}0 665 810 or info@cel.org.au
About the facilitators:
Bruce Teakle, Appropriate Technologist (QLD): Bruce has decades of experience as a blacksmith, fine hand-tool woodworker and home-spun electric bike builder. Bruce once built a gasifier for his car and drove the family to Mildura and back on just wood offcuts! Local co-facilitator
Andrew Turbill (Bellingen): Andrew practiced blacksmithing, woodwork, sustainable forestry and built his own yurt, under Bruce’s mentorship. Back in Bellingen with a family, Andrew put these skills into practice on a community, building his own place and permaculture garden. He loves nothing more than cooking up a batch of pancakes on his Thai charcoal cooker!
