Making Char from Natural Materials 🔥 

Great contribution on how to make and utilize charred materials.

Black hat you're the man bro...

Very interesting Video. Thanks a lot and greets from Switzerland Felix

Thanks for the tip. Never knew you could use mullin. Thanks for the video and have a wonderful weekend. - Josh

Cool facts. Good to know about punk wood. Great year around source.

I'm with White Oaks. I didn't about the Mullin either or the Trumpet Vine!! Thanks Matt

This was another great video! I always enjoy your videos very much, and I learn so much from them.

Great video mate. It's that mind set of making sure you can always make fire you will always be able to survive. I would like to see more videos of nature materials you can char.

If your going to use mullein be aware that if your in the USA it’s an invasive plant and those seed pods can hold thousands of seeds

Another great video Matt! Good job!!

Love your videos man always very thorough and informative. You seem to be a genuinely nice bloke as well makes for good watching

Very informative and educational. Thank you very much

Well done matt, u made firre.

Excellent video brother. I knew about charring punk wood, but never would’ve thought about the Mullen or the seed pod, very cool! Always learning from your videos.

Very good. Thank you.

Cattail-woll works to. press it in your chartin ...

Punk wood is a good one and easy to find, sometimes it will work without charing.

Very good info thanks for sharing

If you bring along my (admitted 6#) 3-4 quart smallest (stainless steel!) pressure "cooker" you can do all your cooking etc in it. But you can also make char and charcoal inside the hot air convection of the pressure oven. Same for processing pine/birch oil/tar ... even processing green wood for wood alcohol (methanol, toxic alcohol) for fuel and flame in alcohol stove, cleaning solvent. Process fatwood and pine pitch into pine tinder. Easy to put in that rose-flowered folding collander or a raised rack and put in any dry or wet punk wood, and make any options for charcoal, or further char, or totally processed for carbon and carbon powder needs. Even pull up all those cattails and bullrush, root tubers, stalks, and catkins, and process for char and dried tinder. Then taking any of the pine pitch crystals/powder, or pine/birch oil, recombine and spark up into flame and fire.

Great video brother!!! I like to see the experimenting with new material. Looks like it's a winner. Since you're a fellow pyro, check out Survival Sherpa's videos on the black sooty mold coal extended from a Beech tree, that stuff is amazing and will be available soon in fall, and his experiment with cocoa powder for ignition. You two would get in trouble together. Lol

Okay, so it's about the method which processes whatever is charred into another state that light easily. Again, your video is an eye opening look at something many of us think as old hat or that we knew everything about it already. What do you think about charred string or rope and popsickle sticks instead of just cloth? I was planning to create fire starters, but maybe charring them would be better than soaking in alcohol or some type of fuel. At least maybe better for the environment. The most abundant organic thing here are those long thin pine needles which litter my yard in here in Florida as well as pine cones and acorns in lesser amounts.

Great video! Out of curiosity, would these 3 charred materials also catch sparks from flint and steel? With punkwood I wasn't successful so far. Need to experiment more...

Thank you for your skills as an enthusiastic educator. Where I’m located in mid Missouri we have access to eastern Cedar and I cottonwood. Do these lend well to charring? Also, as a Boy Scout instructors use to recommend dryer lint. Have you ever tried charring lint?

Thanks! How long does it need to be in the fire?

Hi, do you think that you can char normal leaves ? But I can't get punk food I live in Spain It's too dry. thanks for the info.

Great video but, no cat tails?

cat tails