Product Description

Exclusive Prime Grade Binchotan Japanese White Oak Charcoal in a 10Kg box.

Exclusive quality, gourmet grade Japanese White Oak charcoal – the best in the world and its 100% Natural!

Masters of BBQ and cooking over hot coals, the Japanese have pretty much perfected the art of the bbq.

With this beautifully pure product you get all the amazing flavours of cooking over charcoal without any of the additional and sometimes unwanted flavours. Binchotan is traditional charcoal from Japan. It dates back to the Edo period when a craftsman named Bitchu-ya Chozaemon started producing the charcoal in Tanabe, Wakayama, during the Genroku era. The raw material consists of oak, especially ubame oak, today the official tree of Wakayama prefecture.

Synonymous with Yakitori and Unagi in Japanese bbq this incredible fuel can be used to cook anything on the grill. The fineness and high quality of Binchotan are attributed to steaming at high temperatures (around 1000 degrees Celsius). Although it is often thought that the binchotan burns hot, in actual fact it burns at a lower temperature than regular lump wood charcoal, but it does burn much longer longer. Which is why it is preferred by a number of highly skilled Japanese chefs and is the favourite for cooks of either Unagi (freshwater eel) or Yakitori (chicken on skewer).

Here is a very useful video on Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljhd1atJiF0