Charcoal Making | Living St. Louis

Living St. Louis producer Jim Kirchherr travels to Steelville, MO, an area once known as "charcoal country," to find out the process behind this barbeque necessity. Henry Struemph is a self-taught charcoal maker who takes aged bundles of wood and burns them down into charcoal.

[@midmojimmy]

FIRE KING charcoal is the best charcoal on the market, i use it in competition and its easy lighting, good heat, and long burn times :)

[@BeautifulSoulgurl]

:) love living here been here in Steelville for 9years now

[@PremierGrilling]

Lump Charcoal is the best fuel you can use for BBQ smoking! You will never use lighter fluid or briquettes again after trying The Good-One Lump Charcoal! If you want the best BBQ, it all starts with the best fuel and the best smoker!

[@pamtnman1515]

this is fascinating. we make our own small batches of lump charcoal and it is absolutely the best thing to cook on

[@MatthewHensley8304]

better watch out youll be hit with communist tax credits next.

[@pamtnman1515]

@@MatthewHensley8304 yeah, you are correct about rampant communism taking hold. Let’s go Brandon

[@mitchellbell713]

Excellent video. Very thorough!

[@ce9345]

Thank you EPA for putting businesses out of business. The EPA should be dismantled!

[@JeromeGardiner]

I was told that charcoal was used by the men in the mountains who made white lightening. It was hot, flameless and smokeless. Great for hiding from the revenuers.

[@badassbees3680]

Nice filter too

[@nelsontragura1441]

2024. Self taught is good. Shut off the banks and hypocrite governments.

[@douglasanderson1276]

Black lung! No respirator and all that dust

[@bulletinman]

Great story

[@nomad90125]

You believed in yourself. 🙏

[@jernigan007]

hello from 2022

[@treborretsnom6186]

That big operation, and he doesn't do retort? That's ALOT of waste.

[@Mr-Axe-Tv]

Wait what for is after burner to burn gasses which come out of char coal furnace ?

[@tvideo1189]

No filtered breathing apparatus at all, not even simple face masks. Welcome to witnessing Black Lung in progress.

[@dungeonmaster6292]

I wonder if they've had issues with it. Most likely the operators don't do it long enough to accumulate enough exposure.

[@lifeisgood070]

What a man :)

[@spikeymonkey2257]

What is this afterBurner they keep talking about? what does it do??

[@dooberoso]

I believe it captures gasses escaping from the heated wood and is then used to continue heating the wood.

[@minkusmaz]

@@dooberoso It burns the propane in those tanks to do complete combustion on the charcoal air output so it pumps out gases instead of smoke

[@dasleikjr]

I'm a colier too!
But I have problems with my burner getting waaaay too hot at times.

[@pamtnman1515]

Gotta really throttle back on air getting in

[@dasleikjr]

@@pamtnman1515 i'd love to, but the powers that be made it "idiot proof" 🤣

[@pamtnman1515]

@@dasleikjr i understand. It’s why I made two retort style charcoal ovens of my own design. I’m the idiot and I know how it works!

[@dasleikjr]

@@pamtnman1515 i'm the idiot they pay to make it work, and these ppl never have time to listen to a guy with no degree
Industrial culture is toxic

[@dimmacommunication]

9:10 how is this machine called ?

[@jblazingame]

Those workers need some respirators

[@alvisedwald]

Well you can go a head and use your paycheck for that, wouldn't that be great?

[@scottsnodgrass4361]

I love to hear local businesses like this in the spotlight. Kudos to you Mr Struemph. Unfortunately by the time your product makes it to St. Louis, the cost of your product exceeds reason for a product your burning. The greed in our retail chain is destroying our economy. There’s no reason a retailer should make as much as the manufacturer which seems to be the case in today’s retail market. I used to be a regular in Steelville, hunting and floating. When I get home from my deployment, I’d love to come buy your charcoal.

[@knucklehead4233]

2022

[@truckerenoch8824]

I can't say for certain, but this man and other large manufacturers probably lobbied to get the regulations passed. Big business does this all the time, unfortunately. Because they have enough money to comply, but the small businesses that competed with them didn't. Now instead of just being big fish in a little pond, they're the only fish in the pond and can raise their profits, because there's no small operations left to compete.

[@slappy8941]

You think he's a big businessman? 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-wx2lk4tz3o]

no one will make such a furnace for heating ....
you can warm a house or a greenhouse and get charcoal

[@pamtnman1515]

Can you please explain?

[@fullcircle4723]

Need a mask. That dust is toxic.

[@casualobserver2380]

Interviewer seemed a bit of a dunce.

[@nelsontragura1441]

That is PBS for you. They are two faced thugs.