I just realised that I have never seen or used it, neither crude oil of course, but there are more variants of it than this natural mineral that powers a lot of the world.
What led to you seeing or touching coal?
We use coal for bbq here
I think you mean charcoal. Coal would probably make your food taste awful.
In my language I don’t think there’s a distinction between the two, but you can say it’s barbecue coal etc.
There better be. Charcoal is semi-burnt wood. Coal is effectively ‘solid’ oil. Cooking with regular coal would be horrible.
Did you never seen someone grill? Or had art classes? I’ve even seen the massive coal mines being excavated here in Germany.
Did you never seen someone grill? Or had art classes?
That’s not coal; that’s charcoal, which is typically a wood byproduct.
Went to a open cast lignite mining operation once. The scales are quite impressive. Once standing at the bottom of the pit vision of the surrounding landscape just fades and you feel a bit like in a wasteland of sorts.
I assume many people are familiar with hydrocarbon gas for cooking or heating. Coal can also be converted to liquid or gas fuel form chemically but the process is quite complex and usually not economical.
Then there’s crude oil. Never been near it but its ubiquitous in its refined forms, just go to a gas station.
EDIT: the coal typically used for barbecue (charcoal) is made from wood and is different from the stuff mined from the earth. Many people seem to not know this.
You’ve never used charcoal for a grill?
Charcoal isn’t much like what most people think of as coal - the hard, slightly to somewhat shiny mineral like anthracite. Having grown up near rail lines that transported coal, it was pretty common to find near the tracks.
Charcoal is more like a compressed powder, similar to pencil lead, not hard like a rock and shiny.
This mf never had a grill party.
