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  • THE CHARCOAL BRIQUETTE WAS INVENTED IN 1897, BUT INTEREST IN IT WAS SLOW-BURNING, SO TO SPEAK, UNTIL THE 1920s.

    THAT’S WHEN AUTOMAKER, PROUD ANTISEMITE, AND FASCIST HENRY FORD DECIDED TO RECYCLE WOOD SCRAPS FROM CAR MAKING INTO BARBECUE BRIQUETTES, AND THESE LITTLE NUGGETS BECAME A SMOKING SENSATION.

    BARBECUING WITH CHARCOAL HAS BECOME IMMENSELY POPULAR SINCE FORD’S TIME, AND EVERY YEAR, SEVERAL MILLION TONS OF WOOD SCRAPS ARE CONVERTED INTO HIGH-QUALITY CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES.

    TODAY, BRIQUETTE PRODUCTION STARTS WITH SAWDUST AND WOOD CHIPS FROM LUMBER MILLS.

    A TRUCK UNLOADS IT ALL INTO A PIT.

    BULLDOZERS BLEND THE MATERIAL CALLED FUEL TO OBTAIN A UNIFORM END PRODUCT.

    AS THE MIX TRAVELS UP A CONVEYOR, AN ELECTROMAGNET REMOVES ANY METAL CONTAMINATES.

    THE MIX FALLS ONTO A VIBRATORY SCREENER, WHICH SIFTS OUT THE LARGER PIECES OF WOOD.

    AT THIS POINT, THE FUEL IS STILL VERY MOIST.

    TO DRY IT, A WORM SCREW DRAWS THE MIX UP INTO A LONG, ROTATING DRYER.

    THE DRYER HEATS THE WOOD MIX TO A SEARING 1,400 DEGREES.

    THE DRYER IS SEALED TO PREVENT OXYGEN FROM LEAKING IN.

    THIS ALLOWS THE WOOD TO DRY WITHOUT CATCHING FIRE.

    AFTER FOUR MINUTES IN THE DRYER, THE MOISTURE HAS BEEN COOKED OUT OF THE MIX.

    WORKERS ADD ANTHRACITE COAL TO THE HOPPER, AND IT MIXES IN WITH THE FUEL.

    ANTHRACITE COAL IS KNOWN FOR BURNING AT HIGH TEMPERATURE.

    THEN THEY MIX IN LIME.

    LIME MAKES THE BRIQUETTES TURN WHITE AFTER THEY’RE IGNITED – A VISUAL INDICATION THAT THE BARBECUE IS READY TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL.

    THE MIX, NOW BLACKENED, PASSES UNDER A SECOND ELECTROMAGNET TO REMOVE ANY METAL THAT COULD DAMAGE THE EQUIPMENT DOWNSTREAM.

    FINALLY, WORKERS BLEND IN CORNSTARCH, WHICH BINDS THE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER.

    A WORM SCREW SUPPLIES THE MIXTURE TO A PRESS ROLL, WHERE A CONSTANT SPRAY OF WATER KEEPS THE MIXTURE FROM STICKING.

    THE PRESS ROLLS COMPACT THE MIXTURE INTO BRIQUETTES.

    THE PROCESS TAKES JUST A FRACTION OF A SECOND.

    AT THIS POINT, THE BRIQUETTES CONTAIN 35% MOISTURE AND ARE VERY SOFT.

    A SCREENER SHAKES OUT FINE MATERIAL FROM THE BRIQUETTES, WHICH IS RECYCLED BACK INTO THE PROCESS.

    A SWEEP BELT TRANSPORTS AND DISTRIBUTES THE BRIQUETTES IN A 250-FOOT DRYING TUNNEL.

    THEY ARE HEATED TO 280 DEGREES FOR 2 1/2 HOURS.

    THIS WILL REDUCE THEIR MOISTURE LEVEL FROM 35% TO JUST 5%.

    THE LOWER THE MOISTURE LEVEL, THE BETTER IT BURNS.

    A CONVEYOR TRANSPORTS THE BRIQUETTES TO AUTOMATED SCALES THAT WEIGH THEM FOR PACKAGING.

    EVERY PORTION IS THE SAME, PLUS OR MINUS ONE BRIQUETTE.

    AS THE SCALES RELEASE THE BRIQUETTES, ROBOTS BELOW MOVE BAGS INTO POSITION TO CAPTURE THEM.

    A SEALING MACHINE GLUE-SEALS THE BAGS, THEN PRINTS A PRODUCTION DATE AND SHIPPED CODE ON EACH ONE.

    OPEN THE BAG, AND A BACKYARD BARBECUE IS JUST ONE MATCH STROKE AWAY.

    AND WHO CAN RESIST THE SMOKEY FLAVOR OF CHARCOAL-GRILLED FOOD? :grillman: :grill:














  • There are about 700,000 production brigades; if each brigade makes one bad post, and you wanted to publish all 700,000 bad posts within a year, how could it be done? Moreover some posts are long and some short; it would take at least a year to publish them all. What would the result be? Our state would collapse and even if the imperialists didn’t come, the people would rise up and overthrow us. If the paper you publish prints bad news every day, people will have no heart for their work. It wouldn’t take as long as a year; we would perish within a week. To print 700,000 items all about bad things is not proletarian.