Originally Posted by
DoubleBuck
LAGS;
I have not actually weighed the wood, before cooking. Silly of me, in one way, because, I always weigh the charcoal, to see how much powder it will make. HighUintas told me the other day, that he weighs both the wood and the charcoal, because he is experimenting with how high temps and low cooking temps affect the charcoal. I bet he can add more to the subject. It's a worthy question. I do know, that, by volume, the Balsa charcoal was dang near airfloat, when I took it out of the retort. You could blow on a piece, and roll it around, easy. When grinding it up, which I do by hand; it had to be done with nearly zero air flow, because a breeze would blow it away, right now. It made me a pretty good mess, in Mama's kitchen, and took me a minute to clean up, afterwards. A month later, she was cleaning a shelf and showed me the sponge, which was supposed to be light yellow and was pretty close to black. ha. I've since switched to the well house, to do almost all my powder steps. Now, she's trying to wean me off her best strainer, which works perfect for the first screen. If I sneak it out, she don't seem to miss it.