Fire-cooking is truly rising from the ashes. With barbecue enthusiasts sourcing top-quality ingredients, caring about their origins and creating flavours to be remembered.

But what about their flame?

Amidst Britain’s booming fire-cooking culture, we know that proper charcoal isn’t just a source of heat - it’s the essential ingredient to any great barbecue. House of Charcoal has curated a collective of UK based, artisan charcoal producers who work with thousands of acres across beautiful British forests to create pure, clean, sustainable charcoal, smoking chunks and fire starters.

We don’t just believe, but we know that British charcoal is the best you can burn.  Simple.  We know because our founder is a barbecue fanatic and also the brands we are proud to partner have delivered millions of tons of charcoal over the years to avid cooks (professional and back-garden) who know that using the best charcoal will deliver the best results.  As many of our recent converts have stated, our charcoal is a game changer.

House of charcoal exists because we need to shout and scream about the difference high quality British charcoal makes to not only the flavour of your barbecue, but the efficiency and performance of the burn.  Well-made charcoal delivers a super subtle flavour profile that differs by species. Burn properties however differ greatly but with HoC website guidance, you can choose a profile that suits your pallet and intended burn usage.

It is also worth noting that a little goes a long way and great charcoal, HoC British charcoal, is super light in weight as it is charcoal you are buying, 90+% carbon, made brilliantly: no lumps of wood, no chemicals, no nasties, no rocks or chunks of metal… just natural, pure and truly truly sustainable.

The backdrop of global charcoal production is on the whole dark.  Britain produces less than 3% of the charcoal we consume in our back gardens and import over 110,000 tonnes from all over the world. Crazy.  Deforestation on a critical scale, forced and child labour in horrific working conditions (10% of the world’s slavery is involved in charcoal making), unnecessary travel miles impacting our environment; not to mention the chemicals and poor burn properties of unknown woods and additives to aid burns in the ‘blue bags’ and other heinous charcoals.

So why cook with poor quality imported charcoal when we have the best solution that has been grown and manufactured in the UK, protecting jobs for our rural communities.  Yes, it is more expensive, but it is so much more efficient than many other imported charcoals and gives you an unrivalled subtlety of flavour and outstanding burn profile.  You get what you pay for.

So avoid buying poor quality charcoal from garage forecourts, DIY stores, supermarkets and online marketplaces.  Make sure you buy sustainable British, pure and natural charcoal made from British trees as it makes sense for your cooks, our planet and the people that live on it, as well as the critters and creatures who live in our woodlands.

Buy online at www.houseofcharcoal.co.uk