Today is National Charcoal Day - Hot Promo's Today!

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National Charcoal Day is May 26th. Manufacturers and suppliers of charcoal, meat, and barbeque grills are using the day to bring attention to their product, pricing specials, and even GIVEAWAYS!

Specials:

MasterBuilt Charcoals has a free t-shirt giveaway on the IG account, based on your imagery with a MasterBuilt & hashtag: Masterbuilt (@masterbuilt)

KamadJoe is also giving away a tshirt. And a contest for a grill, Firestarter, and bag of charcoal (better than a lump of coal from Santa). Kamado Joe (@kamadojoe) • And separately $200 off a pallet of charcoal!!! Kamado Joe

Danny & his brothers at Wahl burgers have joined with Coleman Natural Meats for a giveaway, albeit it's titled as a Memorial Day event.


The briquette was made popular by Henry Ford, its invention wrongly attributed today to Thomas Edison. It was Ellsworth B.A. Zwoyer of Pennsylvania who patented the briquette. May 1897 and, on Aug. 3, 1897, the U.S. Patent Office issued patent Nos. 27,483 and 27,484 to Zwoyer. The patents were good for 14 years.

Zwoyer had other patents #667050 “Machine for making artificial fuel” and in 1927 for manufacturing a "Briquetting Method" and "Method of Carbonizing Fuel Briquettes”. He later built them at “Zwoyer Fuel Company in Buffalo, NY and Fall River, MA; but other small companies were also producing them locally.

However, it was Ford who commercialized the use of briquettes by 1929. Reuse, recycle, repurpose is not a 21st century idea. Henry Ford was keen on utilizing everything in the manufacturing process. He had excess wood & sawdust from his automobile plant.Consider this fact:

“Nearly one-million board feet a day was used to manufacture the popular Model T’s, whose chassis were made mostly of wood.”

Kingsford was the cousin of Ford’s wife, had property in “Iron Mountain” Flint, Michigan, and was a successful car dealer as well as operating a timber company. Conversations between Ford, Edison, and Kingsford eventually led to Ford commercializing the use of briquettes, twenty-three years after Zwoyer applied for his first patent and within the time-frame of his 1927 patents. They were originally named Ford Motor briquettes and sold at the dealerships. After Ford died they were re-named Kingsford, not after E.G. but the town of Kingsford where they were made in Michigan. Mr. Ellsworth Benjamin Ashe Zwoyer passed away in 1946.

Additional reading: Popular Mechanics Aug 2012 - A Brief History of the BBQ Grill

Iron Mountain Daily – Dec 2018 Kingsford fuel: The burning history of charcoal briquettes:

USA Today: Feb 2013: How Charcoal is made


National BBQ Day was May 16th, with a focus on what can be barbequed, outstanding recipes and techniques, and stories of successful barbeque events.

Contrast Charcoal Day which is designed to give attention, increase interest & sales, benefitting those who sell & manufacture grills and other necessary equipment..

Then if you are not thoroughly convinced of the value of barbecuing wait for July 4th -10th , it is National BBQ week when there is a convergence of focus and emphasis on equipment, recipes, techniques, and imagery all related to barbecuing.

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