Last night, lacking fireworks of my own to light off, I decided to spend the evening making charcoal. Used a steel 5g bucket as a retort, and loaded it with scrap wood from around the yard.
Went well, besides being a little nervous when the retort began sounding like a jet dragster staging.
Today went out and opened the kiln and broke up all the charcoal, then looked into the fire pit and scooped out all the coals out of that.
Question is, which method actually is more effective in making charcoal?