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Prepare Your Chimney For Winter and Avoid Fires

Let the coal cool down for a minimum of 3 hours, preferably 8. To prevent foul odors from the chimney in the summertime, sweep it after the last fire and deodorize with baking soda. Additional Safety Tips When the fire died down completely, shovel the ashes into a sealed metal container.

Take Your Grill Skills to the Next Level With These Tips

You can also easily manipulate the hot spots by controlling the burners in a gas stove, or arranging the coals only on one side so that half your grill is on high heat and the other on low heat. 2. Forget the grill marks Cross-hatching grill marks are only beautiful to the eye.

Yum! There's Nothing Like This Apple & Cheese-Stuffed Pork

If you'd prefer a smoky flavor, soak some wood chips in water while your coals are warming up. 5. When your coals are hot enough, place the pork in the center of the grid over a drip-pan, and spread out the drained wood chips over the coals. 6.

This Short Grilling Tip Will Make Your Food Taste Better

How to add smoke to gas and coal grills If you’re new to grilling, let us catch you up to speed. In order to add smoke to your grill, you add wood chips on top of the coals or gas burner. The wood chips will create smoke when they burn.

8 Magnificent Mines Around the World

Zollverein Coal Mine Source This coal mine in Germany started operating in 1847. For a long period of time, it was the largest operating coal mine in Europe, supplying coal to the local iron and steel industries, but it finally shut down in 1986.

These 3 Breakthroughs Are Making Historians Jump for Joy!

Instead, the Irish journalist, Senan Molony, says that the reason for the tragedy could have been due to the iceberg striking the exact same spot where the ship's hull had already been weakened by a coal fire.

This Historic Sunshine City Is Full of Blooming Flowers

Click on images to enlarge The city is located on the banks of the Guadalquivir river, and its easy access to the mining resources of the Sierra Morena (coal, lead, zinc) satisfies the population’s needs.

This Map Taught Me Something I Never Knew Before...

Did you know Australia makes this much coal? Or that India is full of precious stones? No? Neither did I. A lot of countries are famous for some of the products they make and export. The Italians are known for cars, the French for fine wine and cheese and Colombians have their coffee.

6 Common Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Barbecue

Wait till the coals are hot enough Whether you’re using lighter fluid or wood, you have to allow the coals to get completely hot. That means waiting until they turn completely white or grey. Starting to cook when the coals are still partially black is a common barbecue mistake.

What a Modern Ghost Town Looks Like!

We’ll talk about Ordos, a wealthy coal-mining town in Inner Mongolia. One of its districts, Kangbashi, is known as a modern ghost town. Kangbashi was designed to have more than 1 million people but remains absolutely empty after the project was launched in 2004.

These Wonderful Shots Are From Many Special Times Gone By

A 15-year-old trapper boy sits at a door to the entrance of a West Virginia coal mine in 1908. Trapper boys were paid a pittance to sit in the same spot for 10 hours at a time to open and close the doors when coal cars came past.

Neglecting to Clean These Items Can Be DANGEROUS

When cooking on a charcoal grill, always make sure that the coals are fully extinguished when you’re finished. When you no longer see any red glow on the coals, hose it down with water, and stir up the coals until they turn into an almost liquid mixture. [related_articles] 6.

Welcome to the Coldest Town in the Whole World...

The only road to Oymyakon, known as "The Road of Bones" A cloud of cold, blowing into a local building The local market in Yakutsk [related_articles] A coal-burning plant provides the locals with heating You can't even leave your shoes outside The only shop in the village is a general store A cattle

The Cheapest Energy: Are Renewables Becoming Cheapest?

In countries with favorable wind conditions, the costs attributed to wind power can be as low as one-half to one-third that of coal or natural gas-fired power plants.

These Are the Most Ridiculous Solutions I Have Ever Seen

(fire, coal and safety not included). "Officer I don't understand what's the problem, it says right here I'm a taxi!" At least he didn't get a tape player... "I think I can hold it for a bit longer." The latest in car safety. This is the way real men cook!

These Archeological Finds Continue to Baffle Researchers

Aluminum Found in 300 Million-year-old Coal Deposit Not many archeological finds spark hypotheses of ancient alien visitations, but this particular one certainly did. Aluminum was only supposed to have been invented during the Chinese Jin dynasty, which reigned over China between 265 and 420 AD.

10 Beautiful Horse Breeds Everyone Needs to Know About

Then in the 19th century they traded their plows and carts to become coal miners. In 1971 the last pony coal mines closed and today the ponies are kept as children’s pets and guide horses. They are thought to be highly intelligent, cheeky, and impulsive. 10.

All Made Equal - Fascinating Art Series!

Fur processor / A woman in a fur coat Motorcycle gang / Boys Choir Body-builder / Drag queen Coal Workers / Male Strippers Ballerina / Fat man Rock Band / Polka Band Abortionist doctor / Garbage man Christian Baptist / Neo-Nazi Bull rider / Rock singer Crack Whore / Escort Old Redneck / Orthodox Jew

12 Strange Towers That Will Make You Look Twice

Shime Tower, Fukuoka, Japan This 47 meter (156ft) monstrosity used to be a coal mine between 1941-1964. It was constructed during WWII to increase the production of coal for the Japanese Imperial Army.

The Fascinating Evolution of Kitchen Over 500 Years

The hearth has come a long way in a few decades - note the cast iron coal grate in place of the wood fire. And what about this new feature hanging above it? It is a mechanical roasting jack.

Explore the Most Bizarre Planets We've Discovered So Far

This massive gas giant doesn't reflect any light and is entirely coal black, despite orbiting at a distance of only 3 million miles from its host star.