In charcoal business field,
wood charcoal and bamboo charcoal are always compared by users. When people produce
charcoal briquettes, they will have a headache of choosing raw materials, so which one is better? To give people more information, here we summarized the following points for your reference. It's just a theoretical comparison, please kindly be noted that.
Wood charcoal is mainly from wood sawdust, just a few people will add some cotton stalks, straw, peanut shells, corncob and so on. But the best way is to use sawdust only.
Bamboo charcoal is made from bamboo dust, which are mainly from chopsticks producers and toothpick producers. Bamboo dusts are very good materials for producing bamboo charcoal briquettes.
1. From the raw materials point of view, the bamboo dust quality is better than wood dust. As the bamboo dust is pure and with smaller size, the density of bamboo is even higher than sawdust.
2. Under the same condition of carbonizing temperature, 1 kg bamboo charcoal burning time is a little longer than sawdust charcoal that are from common wood, except the very good quality hardwood materials.
3. Regarding the heating value, here we make comparison from the point of the proper use. When people cook BBQ, they just use less bamboo charcoal to get the same result. Furthermore, once oil falls down to the bamboo charcoal, no open fires. So here we say that bamboo charcoal is better than wood charcoal.
4. When charcoal burns, white dust can fall off by itself or not. This will affect the charcoal briquettes heating release. The good charcoal briquettes will fall off naturally, and keep the charcoal burning in a higher temperature and vice versa. Bamboo charcoal and wood charcoal have the better similar white dust, but for the charcoal made by stalks, it is not as good as wood and bamboo charcoal.
5. From the appearance, Bamboo charcoal has less crack in appearance than wood charcoal.
The following table will help you to understand clearly.
|
Item |
Ash content |
Sulphur content |
Heating value |
|
Common wood charcoal briquettes |
10% |
0,016 |
6,000 Cal |
|
Pine/fir wood charcoal briquettes |
5% |
0.005 |
7,300 Cal |
|
Bamboo charcoal briquettes |
3% |
0.003 |
8,000 Cal |
From the above points, we can see that bamboo charcoal quality is better. But in reality, the supplying amount of bamboo charcoal is limited, so the price of bamboo charcoal is much higher than wood charcoal. So which kind of charcoal is more competitive? Either has their own competitive points. People will choose the right charcoal according to their needs.
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