There’s no reason I need to make charcoal—I don’t normally use it for anything, and if I did, bags of it are so easy to buy. But I find the whole process of exhausting wood sticks into little brittle ...

We’ve tested a bunch of methods, but this one takes the prize for simplicity. In this video, we walk through how we make high-quality charcoal using just a few tools and some well-chosen wood. From ...