My brother and I went out for a wander to a wonderful place in the woods I found yesterday. The area was perfect for a little fire so I thought I'd take along some old denim and try to turn it into charcloth.
Punched a tiny hole in the lid of an old tin and stuffed the tin with the denim and placed it on the side of the fire...
Couldn't remember how long to keep it on the fire for so we decided that it must surely be ready once the vapour stops coming out of the hole .
After about 15-20 minutes there was a pop; the lid flew off of the tin and the contents caught fire...
Wooops!
After it cooled down I tipped it out to see if anything was worth keeping...
(The pile on the left is the amount of charred denim that crumbled into dust as soon as I picked it up, the measly right pile is the stuff I think I can use!)
Ah well, we live and learn! We had a good laugh about it on the way home