Coffee Briquettes - Free Heat

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@farhan.naushad]

The Worcestershire Cabinet Maker has a video that claims if you let the mixture sit for two months before packing it, the briquettes will burn longer. I have not tested it yet.

[@chojinuk]

You can make horse poo brikets using a similar method

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

@chojinuk 👍

[@g.w.hampton5525]

My mom had us kids making waste paper logs 50 years ago.. we were preppers before prepper was popular =)) RIP mamma and daddy.. you taught me a lot of good stuff

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Glad it triggered some good memories for you

[@valkyrie1066]

I get you! My grandparents survived the depression and kept scouting ways to save money. I'm glad; between that, and my dad's instruction on camping, we survived the pandemic okay. Now, we save on principal. (Garden, Chickens, Canning, etc.) I think they'd be proud. Pretty sure there'd be a "Told you so!" in there.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Nowadays most paper has forever chems, and there are harmful chems in chainsaw sawdust (from the chainsaw bar oil). So never cook food over any of those.

[@evenlyanxious]

oh wow - I forgot all about paper logs! My parents had us use newspapers if there weren't enough bags, and they also sent us out to "play" by going and picking up thick pine bark that had cracked off of fallen trees. Great memories. Also, had a carpet of green walnuts in our driveway for a month or two while everyone drove over them so they'd be easy to process. Weird, weird, weird how different my own kids are - how far removed from all of that, and have no interest in learning (never did.)

[@g.w.hampton5525]

@@evenlyanxious I'm proud to say my daughter and then my grandson even more were interested in learning how to do things I learned growing up on a small farm... many wonderful memories are in my head right now. My beautiful best boy, best friend, died from a terrible terrible cancer 2 weeks after he turned 21.. R. I. P. Nicholas Bel.. Nana loved you so much and will never forget teaching you how to use a little saw and how you would say.. backy forf.. backy forf. Blessings to all who love...

[@dougearnest7590]

Don't think coffee burns? Then you've never been to Starbucks.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Lmao 🤣🤣 good point

[@meanqkie2240]

Never been, don’t like their politics, won’t support them with my $. You can get spent grounds from your local coffee shop and have all the material you can blend, with other amazing aromas! Or use it in your compost.

[@Goat_Sass]

I was 2x a decade ago, both times inside it smelled like burned coffee

[@Froggo2103]

I thought I was the only one thought it even tastes burnt

[@krislarsen6546]

Free heat? Not even close. Think of how much coffee you have to go through in order to actually make those little bricks of coffee.

[@smorrnikow]

watching this from Switzerland. Don't even own a stove, but really love the idea and your effort.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I think our country could learn a lot from your country and how things are run. Lol but welcome and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Videos on briquettes are a labor of love. In about 2 weeks we got another one coming out about giant briquettes.

[@joycebelk4634]

You got my attention!!!! Please share how you manage without a stove.

[@joycebelk4634]

Is there a manual way to mix in case you have no electricity.

[@estherwijnbeek8072]

@@joycebelk4634 maybe a vintage handmixer(eggbeater) would do the job.

[@MasterKenfucius]

People saving their coffee grounds to do this will be blown away by the fact that they can get at least 30 lbs of used coffee grounds from their local Starbucks every...single.. day... You can get twice as much if you show up at lunch and before they close. They are begging people to take those from them so they don't have to carry it to the dumpster.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Our local Starbucks and most other coffee shops have stopped doing this. They used to put it in bags and put it out for people or people would call in and ask for it and not come pick it up not show up so they stop doing it. It's pretty sad really because you're correct 30 to 100 lb a day is what most Starbucks stores go through

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Have a talk with their manager. Show them that you can keep a schedule going. Give them a bin they can drop the bag outside for you and will be protected until you pick it up. The people at my store here know that I'll be pulling into the parking lot every single day around 7 pm and they keep in the same place for me. I even bribed them with some avocados from my trees here to sweeten the deal, because they want you to take it. But yes, I understand their reasons for not wanting to do it anymore in your area if nobody is willing to show some commitment. I'm a gardener, so that stuff is even more precious to me than it is for people who will make bricks for burning.

[@WealthandTravelonaDime]

​@@PedroKing99because we have asked almost every local place. I would encourage you to ask in your area because it may be different but you have to think how many coffee grounds they go through so if they start bagging it up it's going to make a lot and without somebody to pick it up constantly they're wasting their time they can just throw it the trash can. So they quickly get sick of bagging it up putting it aside and people not showing up it's extra work they are a business. We actually spent an entire day in our town and three other local towns driving from coffee shop to coffee shop to coffee shop and they all said the same thing we used to save them but nobody ever came to pick them up. One of the local Starbucks even still has a basket area up where they used to put them but they said they don't do it anymore

[@wendyeames5758]

​@@WealthandTravelonaDimea local coffee shop, now gone, used to have a good policy. They had a 5 gal bucket at the back door. You took their bucket & left an empty one.

[@WealthandTravelonaDime]

@wendyeames5758 that would be awesome

[@YroyHqgfos]

Sir, thankyou for your video. I was raised by my grandparents in Northern CA., and we burned a log fire every winter. Grannies and grandpa would also have us Crack walnuts and almonds for our baking from scratch, we'd then put the shelks into a bucket, and after awhile themed be enough for him to shuck the contents into the fireplace. You want to talk about that being HOT?! Try also dried over the summer heat peach, apricot and nectarine pits left over from when we did all of our canning! THAT was HOT!! And when he mixed them in together, woo wee!! Wow! So I've been inspired by your coffee bricks and wonder IF mixing in some crushed pits and shell, along with citrus peels, orange, grapefruit, lemon, limes, kumquat, etc, what that brick would really burn like with that kind of a cocktail??!! And I was the one, as the oldest grand daughter that was assigned to clean out and up the ashes every couple three weeks or so. There didn't seem to have a whole lot of heavy ashes on the grate. Thanks again, I've been inspired to try something new, useful and very practicle. By the way, I'm now 62 yrs old and still try to live the way I was taught and raised. Blessings, M

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Such great ideas and excellent memories thank you for sharing

[@piehound]

Nice creative touch with the added coffee. I like homesteading stuff.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Agree

[@Ocean_breezes]

Interesting video. Taking scrap , sawdust, cardboard and coffee grounds and making firebricks. That's awesome.! Great idea.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you we thought it was a fun experiment

[@666toysoldier]

My coffee grounds and eggshells go into an old cake pan in the oven, where they are desiccated when I bake something. The crushed shells and coffee grounds are then processed in my old Waring blender and used in my garden.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We actually have started making briquettes from compost video come in soon

[@arcar66]

Great for the garden too!!

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Every time I watch KZbin videos, used coffee grounds become more of a valuable resource around my place. If you put them in standing water, it kills mosquito eggs. Earthworms love them (that's 110,000 uses, right there). They absorb stink from animal waste. Excellent compost. We need to drink more coffee 😂

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Agree ☕

[@AraceaeFanatics]

We've also found that you can also use spent grain collected from local micro breweries. Once dried, they burn well. Also if you vermicompost, this helps feed your maggots, or worms, and you can also feed spent beer grain to chickens, and hogs.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Another good option

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I bet the fermented grain is really good for animals, if not people

[@Jirekianu]

It does make sense that used grounds burn well. When you're brewing coffee you're extracting oils and other elements from the coffee to flavor your water. But there's still oils left behind. So finely powdered flammable material with traces of natural oils in it laced throughout other flammable things definitely makes for a solid burn.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Exactly

[@pkb1647]

Ahhhhh....organic chemistry flashbacks ... Those were the days.

[@kenfrutiger2471]

Over my 79 years, I've met a lot of people that can burn coffee, and I've met a few that couldn't boil water without burning it!!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Well you could say I burn coffee lol

[@zannejae]

Don't talk bad about my mother.

[@donaldwarriner1640]

Hilarious!

[@MichaelWillby]

You met my mrs ? The only person I know can explode eggs when boiling them .

[@maegardnermills4292]

Thank you. That is very resourceful for people who have the time and resources.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Exactly

[@happysmile1185]

Making coffee cakes. Well that is what I’m calling them when I show Girl Scout Leaders how to make them. Thanks for the fun video. You think your family drinks coffee these Leaders can out coffee any group. Love your videos!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@HW-ow9zp]

This is really cool. Love the thought of recycling something that is just pure garbage usually like coffee grounds, that's excellent, nice work

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you

[@knhc1]

I used to work in a place that made fire logs.We used wood ,bran , and chaff, basically anything fibrous. We did everything dry, and when compressed the ligans in the wood would glue it all together. Our was a hydraulic screw press. When compressed, there was a lot of heat generated.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We plan on looking into this style in future The problem is you have to have your substrate at a certain moisture content.

[@giovanilevin616]

Not long ago I remember hearing about a startup in France that recycles coffee grounds to make pellets, so your idea makes sense to me.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

There's actually a place in England I know for sure it has coffee extruded blocks for wood burning.

[@slouchyjoe]

The Koreans still use briquets for heating to this day. But they make theirs into cylinders with many small holes molder into them for better combustion. The only ingredient I seen them use was charcoal and (undesirable) rice powder mixed with water as a binder. They made a press out of an old pipe, with rods welding to the bottom to create the vent holes, then they had a round metal plate, with holes, welded to a long rod that they pulled on using body weight to form the briquets, quite Ingenius actually. Those would work wonderfully in a mass rocket heater.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@ajsassafrass6883]

This is cool. Im a 'poor' working class, in a trailer. I can think of multiple ideas for cofee like this, and for the press. Thank you!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you for watching

[@johnkelly9451]

I enjoyed the video. Always a good idea to be resourceful. They actually commercially make and sell the coffee bricks. I never thought to make them myself. (I learned the newspaper, junk mail paper logs just to try it.) So thank you. -John's wife

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

@johnkelly9451 our pleasure

[@simonesmit6708]

In another coffee brick making video, the guy left his mix to ferment for about a minth to 2 months. He said it increased the burn time x 2.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yep if you look through the comments he's been in here talking. What he's doing is composting we're looking into videos on that too but he also uses dryer smaller particles of wood turnings and sawdust that higher quality wood will burn longer than what we're using with wood chips. But the compost in effect breaks everything down so it can pack in denser. But to counter that you should look into our giant briquette video if you want to see burn time

[@curtis5809]

I saw the same guy do these after letting it sit for two months (becoming compost). He said letting it sit that long was the secret ingredient for them lasting over two hrs. I’d like to try both but I would have to go to a wood shop or somewhere to get food sawdust. I don’t cut enough to make that much.

[@bongothom]

As someone who enjoys both coffee and camping, I really appreciate this video. Thanks

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Our pleasure

[@mybellegirls]

Okay, that was fascinating!! I’m always looking for something new to do with my spent coffee grounds. New sub.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@twcmaker]

This is okay. A good place to start. My Coffee briquettes burn over 2 hours 15 minutes.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yep I've seen your videos. They are an excellent resource

[@Freaysclaw56]

Excellent use of resources that would end up in a dump somewhere. The more items we can recycle the better. And, a perfect way to save money and create your own “fire wood” cheaply. Plus it can easily be stored in a small place with little mess and no bugs. Children can make the bricks, each child makes 24 a day and that would heat the home all winter.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Exactly. We did another video called Giant briquettes and you could have it be a family deal but those burn a lot longer

[@IndianMaidProducts]

Good for the kids too. They learn to work instead of being on phones and other e-gadgets. I don't let my kids or grandkids be on E-gadgets if they come to visit me. They claim to come to visit me, then DO THAT. I hate lies... And I'm not a pushover grandma.

[@JohnGault2398]

Coffee grounds are also good for compost, high in nitrogen.

[@krishadyn5211]

LOL you are trying to bring back child labor. People used to have children in order to get free labor. Is that still the case for you?😅

[@katkroll5013]

thanks. i will add my coffee grounds to my next batch of fire starters & logs!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Now that's an excellent idea

[@hawkeyejk33]

This is one of the best things I’ve seen thank you bro!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you for watching

[@keekers]

Thank you! New subscriber here. This is the first video of yours I'm watching. It's great to see another use for my used coffee grounds!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Glad to have you along.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you for subscribing

[@ravenrock541]

As a mechanic of three decades I've had plenty of experience with using an impact on a screw jack. You'll find that the screw inside the jack gets worn out pretty quickly. A hand turned crank will make the jack last longer.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We scrap a lot of cars around here so definitely no shortage of screw jacks. But even with speeding up with the drill I've seen guys with videos of hand pressed ones that could outrun this. So that's what we are looking into....that side The video we did on the giant ones was pretty good too and they burn a long time

[@World_of_Art2025]

Impressive! Never thought about doing something like this!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@lamontraub455]

TY REALLY A GREAT IDEA TO KEEP WARM IN THE WINTERS. GOD BLESS.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@erikw2012]

My only question is, does it fill the chimney pipe with any soot, worse or average for wood?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

No it does not. In fact it burns cleaner and more efficient than wood as there's no bark. And the biggest thing that causes soot and creosote is wood that has wet sap or wood that is wet. In a couple of my videos I showed how little smoke they make and that the pipe is completely clean.

[@erikw2012]

@thefrugalhomestead7873 thank you for answering. That was a safety concern I had, as I have had pipes glowing back when I was learning to use a wood stove (years ago)

[@luisebird8341]

Funny vid of college teams

[@TheSuperMegaUltra]

I've been planning on doing paper briquettes. I also started saving coffee grounds for other reasons but now i have ANOTHER reason. Thanks!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Glad to help

[@JudiChristopher]

WOW ... WOW WOW EXCELLENT VIDEO Thank you for sharing this great video... WOW.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Our pleasure

[@ernie548]

I compost all of mine, in a.mix. Earth friendly reuse is good.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Many different uses we are actually working on a video where we take actual finished compost and make briquettes

[@metalted6128]

Great information!! I heat my shop/ garage with a pellet stove. I’m going to try your method making pellet fuel. My stove can burn corn/ cherry bits. Or wood pellets. Any free BTUs is great!! Here in Michigan winters.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

That should work out good

[@abcstardust]

This is one Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your know how!!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Glad to help

[@tracybowling1156]

This is ALOT like making paper. Just bigger batches. Very interesting!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@Rockondane]

Thanks Frugal Home- I wish to learn how to live off grid in SD. The difficult task is finding a little sliver of land to buy, in which to do so. There has got to be a sliver here that the billionaires have not bought and are trying to sell for 5x its value !

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

It's our there keep looking. It Will be the best purchase of your life once you get it

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@pokerfacetv4644]

One of the coolest things I've ever seen. 😊

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@deborahpadgett2417]

Very cool idea, thank you for sharing this with us.❤❤❤

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Our pleasure

[@ecoedge-h3q]

Awesome idea bro. Like the channel new sub. As an ex stone mason i personally would try this with a concrete whip and a round bucket for mixing less struggle and consistent mixing.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Makes sense

[@GergC0521]

Coffee has oil in it, so they should burn pretty well and pretty hot

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

That is true and the roasting process burns off a lot of the bad oils off the outside.

[@GergC0521]

Can't wait to try this!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

@GergC0521 👍

[@stacyhazelwood4033]

Mind blown. I have never. I throw all this stuff away everyday. We have a business where we shred paper labels that have sensitive info on them. My only question is, the labels that we shred have a lot of glue in them. Do you think that the glue would not burn as clean and might gum up our chimney or might burn too hot?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I would doubt there'd be any issue in fact the glue is probably water soluble so it probably would actually help them hold together.

[@rayminthecat]

I buy 40 lb bags of deer corn for less than 10 bucks and fill small bags and paper boxes to throw in a hot wood stove- and the smell is like being at a movie theatre outside! Also hard wood pellets for pet bedding works, and cedar chips is our go to to lite the stove.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

All excellent ideas

[@LL-yc5jp]

Dude - 1 bushel /60# corn sells for under $4 from a farmer.

[@djiceyfan]

I wonder if using used tea in the bags or loose leaf would work just as well...I'm not a fan of coffee scent

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yes

[@junkemails5050]

There’s something that really makes it burn, not sure if is the oil or what, but ive noticed the coffee paper filters would burn so easy like if had some combustible added. Discovered it for using the coffee powders for gardning and was about to burn some branches then i used some dry ones, and it burns easy

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Oils in coffee

[@lindarobinson195]

Interesting. I am age 76 to young to drink coffee I was age 35 learned to drink tea. Wish I saw this 7 years ago I was lucky had truck loads of coffee for fill and soil made better. Never considered this program thanks was interesting. Yours truly Evans w Robinson ret sgt

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We are working on new videos where we made them from a compost pile very interesting.. thank you for watching

[@sugrue8526]

Avocado peels & seeds are magic. Ensured fire starter and surprising long duration burn. Growing up we had a basic wood stove. Burnt a lot of wood. Hotter than hell while tending fire. Ice in the toilet in the morning. These last 20 years with Vermont Castings Encore, is amazing duration, efficiency, comfort. Also, never liked guacamole and still don’t. Plain avocado is quick good energy food. If they are hard when you buy them, leave them on counter until first touch of softening then refrigerate. If they rot, you get to burn them.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Makes sense

[@robertpekar1972]

I suggest adding one kilo of potato flour to such a bucket. While burning in the fireplace, you clean the chimney and fireplace glass.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@TODinWY]

How about using a small batch concrete mixer?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

That would be awesome That's how you do big batches fast

[@brokenbravo83]

Would a garbage disposal work to grind all that up? Ive removed so many from kitchen because they cause pipes to clog up and have one hooked up above my compost bin. All the kitchen scraps and garden water goes thru the garbage disposal before it falls into the bin of compost, it chews everything up into a nice even mush

[@brokenbravo83]

*garden waste* not water...

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Honestly that might be a really good idea

[@barrywise7185]

Saw a video last week of a farmer making briquettes from coffee grounds from a local coffee shop mixed with livestock manure from his farm. said the smell of the coffee completely covered any bad smell from the manure and that it burned *real* good, but yours look like they burn just fine as well

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

There's going to be a video much like this. Using compost that has manure in it

[@IndianMaidProducts]

Getting hardwood sawdust is very difficult in ND and the rest of the Great Plains. I figure leaves will work, though.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Any kind of organic matter would work. We are testing compost right now and that can be made out of anything

[@spaaggetii]

I use to work on a worm farm. Yep Worms. We would go to the local cafe's, McDonalds etc and pick up the used coffee grounds. Worms love them, Good food for them and keeps the farms moist. Would have a more productive venture if the cafe's and etc would not throw the coffee capsules and packages in their also. Worms don't get the buzz from caffeine hit, Well not the used coffee grounds. But if have a coffee machine and use the package stuff, empty the used grounds into a tub. Put them in your compost or worm farms etc. Remember that worms hate the heat, but will rise up if the rain or water starts to submerge them. They will drown. I would love to try to make coffee ground brickets. I reakon it would smell so good also.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

👍 we've done some worm farming here in an Ibc tote. Probably no better way to improve your soil then to integrate worms into it.

[@oceanmichelle2167]

Curious if you have tried using coffee chaff and coffee grounds instead of sawdust. Roasters certainly have loads of chaff to give away. Thanks for your video.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

No roasters in our town but I will look into in more thanks

[@waltershoults8803]

The major upside is if you live in the South/Southeast , you get superior mosquito 🦟 control and protection from burning 🔥 coffee ☕️ grounds. It’s a heckuva mosquito repellent 👍🌎👀

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Interesting good to know

[@70cimabue]

The downside?…..I live where there’s a lot black bear….coffee smell attracts the bear and the coyote….😂😂😂….don’t want that…

[@waltershoults8803]

@@70cimabue fear

[@nsde5945]

​@@70cimabue🤣🤣🤣 geez

[@az55544]

By the time you need to light a fire, the mosquitos are long dead.

[@AdamWest-h5z]

Thank you for the education

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment it's appreciated

[@fireflyfarmletontheeno777]

Any idsues with creosote from the coffee bricks? Coffee beans have an oil, so am curious about that. Thanks!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

No they conbust pretty completely. I would guess most of the oil gets burnt off during roasting and then what's left as you make coffee runs off. But there are some woods that have natural tannin oils too. I will say these burn more like charcoal so you have less build up in your chimney compared to burning dirty bark

[@anniegaddis5240]

Are you actually adding COFFEE, or the Coffee GROUNDS?? I don't drink coffee, but I can get the GROUNDS for free from a little Coffee Shack over by the Dollar Tree! Also I don't have access to sawdust, but am thinking ,just MAYBE, I can get it for free from our local lumber yard? As for the paper, I can shred up my junk mail and soak THAT. Sound ok so far? I don't want the brick maker, but I see no reason why I couldn't build a make shift wooden mold on my driveway. and just STAND on a make-shift press. I'm getting a small wood stove from Tracter Supply, will these work well in THAT? It will be heating a 12x28 tiny home in my backyard until my house is rebuilt. If I work on these all next spring/summer/fall, am hoping for enough to last me through our zone 7B winter here in Tennessee next year.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Seems like it would work.

[@donaldwarriner1640]

Just a suggestion that when I was composting human manure I learned not to use sawdust from a lumber yard as so much of it is saturated with chemicals. Not what I would use in a garden. I would think the same applies here.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Generally I agree you need to verify there isn't a bunch of chemicals in the wood/sawdust you're working with. Most sawmills use water or chainsaw chips obviously there's bar oil. Lot of people say that's not good but consider the wood itself has oils in it. Or some pine has pitch in it. All are chemicals. Coffee also has oils in it prior to roasting than most of them are burnt off. I think you really have to be careful like you stated on some lumber yards use pesticides that are very nasty. You're definitely correct know your source

[@keekers]

These would be great fire starters!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

They actually really are because if you put them on one small coal it'll take right off

[@steve_frenchcougar1747]

coffee beat wood for amount of heat generated but good luck getting 3 cords i personaly use coffee to help start a fire or pack grounds in a tp roll when i go camping

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

This is true I just find it helps Make the briquettes more dense by adding some to wood chips and a very small amount of paper. That said we are working on making briquettes from compost with coffee in it

[@aspitofmud6257]

Can these bee used as fire starters by adding ingredients like wax, crisco, etc?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

You don't have to add anything these things take off easy. And if you really want to see something awesome if you've only got like two or three little coals in your fire set one of these on top of it and it will take off

[@stevezelen4651]

What would happen if you used the dry bricks to make char? I’m wondering if the resulting product could be used to smoke pork or other meats?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

In India they make these but add charcoal and press them under a lot more pressure. They use them for cooking smoking ect.

[@proberts34]

First time viewer. Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing this video. One question. What's the drying time for the bricks during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

It varies based upon what they're made of what the moisture outside is if you're indirect sunlight... In the direct sun of the summer if you're flipping them maybe a day or two. If you've got them inside a damp garage in the middle of autumn probably a week

[@proberts34]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Thanks for the information. I might get one of those nifty nifty 4-slot presses and start diverting my paper recycling material.

[@steve.o33]

Ive got the single model for my amazon boxes. Those boxes are pretty much only good for heat, you dont want to cook with them because the starch they use is pretty toxic. Ive got a home made press as well, and i found that the saw dust and coffee grounds burn super hot, but not as long. I got my blocks up to almost 2300°f with my forge. But it takes alot of those blocks to keep it going that hot.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Those would be probably pretty good for a forge

[@steve.o33]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 absolutely, anything that burns 1800°F is good. Cheaper than coal, and burns alot cleaner too. Plus it smells amazing lol.

[@tonyhorton152]

Try drilling holes in a 5 gallon bucket make the bottom like a strainer and then use another bucket to squeeze the water out and make big pucks like half the size of the bucket . Then you can mix your mixture in a bucket tower of sorts and the. Just squeeze out the excess water .

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Check out our giant briquette video where we did that

[@sillysailor5932]

Im not a wood worker would a 50 50 paper coffee mix work?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

You could try the ratio back and forth to find what works best I would guess if you're trying just to do paper and coffee 3/4 paper 1/4 coffee would probably be a mix that would hold together and dry faster. The big thing if you're trying to do paper with coffee shred the paper as much as possible and let it soak overnight

[@JudiChristopher]

I am going to ask a stupid question... Can you put these in an offset smoker? I would assume you couldn't use the paper products to make these But to put into a Smoker... could you use the Coffee Grounds and Wood Shavings??? Surely there is a way to make these Bricks that we can Smoke Meat???

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I would guess so. It would definitely make an interesting experiment

[@JudiChristopher]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Exactly... I was thinking not the paper waist as much as the Oak Sawdust... and Coffee Grounds... Dried Vegetable Scraps??? Dehydrating Vegetable Scraps with the Coffee Grounds? THINKING of what would Smell and Taste Good... without making White Smoke.. or a Burnt Taste. I was a Chemical Engineer in the Oldfield. *Retired I will explore this and get back to you. THANK YOU so much for sharing this EXCELLENT VIDEO.... Holy Moly this Helped me so much. GOD BLESS YOU!!!

[@JudiChristopher]

Another REASON this video means so much to me is.... This. I am 70 years old... have been taking care of my ill mother for the last 7 years. She has passed away (very sad) and I find myself on my own again.... and needing to have to go back to work, because I do not make enough money to live on my Social Security. Since I will not have a home here shortly.. I have decided to buy a Tiny RV with a Stove like yours (smaller) which is great... Your Briquettes are perfect for that. BUT... I am also going to go back into the BBQ We used to have a BBQ Cafe... do not want the hassle of a cafe again... but would love to SELL BEEF JERKY... EVERYONE LOVES BEEF JERKY. This is why I'm interested in making these Briquettes. YOU are a Genius for making these... I"m sure TEA Leaves would be great too. YOU are also a God-Send to me... For the first time since my Mama died, I feel like I can get back on my feet. Don't feel so lost now. Thank you again God Bless

[@davidstewart5811]

great idea

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@Father_Brother_Son]

I’m trying to decrease my coffee consumption and have my wife do the same. Question: would this work equally well with used tea?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yes

[@Debbie4729]

This is a great video! I have a question,though-how long does it take to dry them?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Everyone ask that I can put it this way if it's out in the sun in the dead of summer all day and I'm flipping it throughout the day probably anywhere from 1 to 3 days. If it's in a cold damp garage say in the middle winter in cold temperatures it could take weeks. Sitting next to a wood burner maybe 24 to 48 hours. It also matters how much moisture you squeeze out of them

[@StudioUAC]

does it make the place smell like coffee?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

My stove is sealed so you really don't get any smell I have smelled it outside though

[@charliezicolillo]

WOW Hi can i use these in my smoker.I can use different wood sawdust.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

You can but I would use less paper

[@winnipegnick]

You may want to turn it into charcoal briquettes. I saw a few videos where a person was taking banana peels and turning them into briquettes. You can do the same with this mix. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpWWoqdtadR9adUsi=ddlhw9BKq3muWhkM

[@GabrielSBarbaraS]

I just let the grounds dry in the sun and shovel it into the fire, seems to work with little effort compared to make bricks from the coffee grounds, we do the same with sawdust.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Nothing wrong with that

[@Sewjourner]

Very interesting. Not something I will do. However I would like to copy the press you made for other purposes!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@d.marbus1493]

Coffee beans contain oils and they don't all leach out when you make coffe adding water to this mix doesn't do much either. So oils in the bricks will make them burn hotter

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@worldtraveler930]

I have a question and a suggestion: First the question, How do you keep your blades from cutting holes in your plastic bucket? Now the suggestion, go to an RV store get a Maserator and it should speed things up with a lot less hassle!!! 🤠👍

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

It actually doesn't cut I'm not exactly sure why I would guess it's probably because of the paddle on the bottom keeping it away from the sides. And it's funny you mention that because I just switched out the macerator on my sister's RV and set up a system where you use a garbage disposal in its place at the external hose. So maybe I'll look into run it through one of those. The big problem with this is putting too much material in at a time might clog the blades especially the paper being a macerator or a garbage disposal

[@Darkwolfsbane]

Now I'm wondering how the ash from that would serve as a base for cement/concrete bricks. Keep it useful even when it can't burn anymore.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Probably great additive might have a high lime content so possibly be good for soap

[@Darkwolfsbane]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 did a quick bit of research, it has potential as a cement mix on its own (might need to play around with ratios of sawdust/paper and coffee grounds in the initial mix, but the coffee ash has everything else necessary to make ashes into cement). mixing it with bacon grease could also make for a decent soap too, though you'd want to run the grease through a filter or two first.

[@tracyalan7201]

Fascinating. As I watched the video, I know it was something for a handy person could do for themselves, but I was just wondering if it made a difference about the brickets, if the sawdust used was from treated lumber, that burning might create a toxic element, if used for a fireplace or outdoor firepit? If it wasn't an issue, I was wondering if counties, that have problems with paper/cardboard waste, since recycling of paper isn't so valuable, that perhaps the waste management of cities, consider using all the bulk of waste paper/cardboard, which could be used as fuel for power plants, might consider part of the recycling used the massive loads of paper to make briquettes for fire place/fire pits and sell it out to the public? If they are safe for those charcoal grillings, wouldn't that be an recycled usage of paper/cardboard waste and for wood working shops of endless sawdust? During my career in government, one of the methods of important document disposal was shredding machines, incarceration, and mulching in huge vats of water (like a giant washing machine). The shredding/mulching will still be producing either fine chips/dust or mulched paper going into dumpsters, why not just mulch, stain with coffee grounds and compressed to brickettes?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Treated is salt based now so I still would not use but I agree there is so much waste we could compress and use for fuel

[@bartjames100]

Great idea.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@mra5814]

I repair coffee machines and go through about 2kg of beans a week when testing the machines. My workshop is near a coffee roastery who roasts at least 300kg daily, and they throw away a lot of husks that are waste from the roasting process. Using the husks and used grinds, I have made some rather half-decent briquettes. Grinds + husks + flour to help bind (like paper maché) The form I made creates holes through the briquettes which I believe helps them burn better.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Sounds like a great setup

[@MatthewMontana]

I wonder what the r - value is for these blocks? For stucco later.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Probably one

[@velvetvideo]

i would've been interested in a temp reading from the stove top-plate surface

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We have done multiple videos but unfortunately the top of the stove does not show correct temperatures because this is a reburner it has pipes in the top that ignite with an insulation layer between it and the top so The edges of the door would probably give you more of a measurement like you're used to. That's why the temperature on pipe and on top of my stove Don't register correctly

[@KnifeCrazzzzy]

Man this is awesome! 👏🏻

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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[@VincentLowe]

Great video! Thanks

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Our pleasure

[@DavidCorbett1984]

Wow, 1.5 hours ! 👍 good deal

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Might want to go check out our gigantic briquette video that one burned much longer

[@houghchrst1]

Can dry leaf mulch be added to these? Would that work?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yes the only issue would leaves is you get a little more smoke but not enough to matter

[@Sirtomalot-c5s]

Ever tried tea? Tea bags etc?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I would think it would work just fine

[@arielleshort2072]

For those who don't have a press, can you use a butter mold press that can be done by hand. Or a wooden brick mold. Also do you know if you can use that chicory coffee grounds?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yes you can use any kind of product in it chickery coffee would be fine. As far as a mold if you watch our giant briquette video all I did was used to buckets I drilled holes in the bottom bucket then put a board across and sat on the top bucket putting the materials inside the first bucket then putting the second bucket into it worked pretty well actually but you could make it out of anything wood it doesn't matter. There's also so many easy plans or ideas on KZbin about bricket presses

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Put the coffee in the middle of the mix. I used to have the single press and I found that the briquettes burned better if they were not too dense. IE leave some card not broken down.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

We go back and forth on this cuz our giant briquette video that thing burned forever and it wasn't pressed super hard but it was really dense We're going to be coming out with a new video soon where I literally went to the compost pile dug out some compost that was finished and mixed it with cardboard paper and a little bit of coffee and even at 100% dry it probably weighs almost double what the same of this mix did. We have not burned any of it yet but I think it'll be interesting

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Cool. I have not made them since 1984 LOL but I recall that, although I needed more of them. the less compressed ones left behind a lighter ash - most of which disappeared when disturbed. A big consideration for us at we had a fireplace with a build-in back boiler.

[@lawnranger05]

How safe is this long term in a wood stove? Does it leave any residues like certain woods you shouldn't burn, like pine ans creosote?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I have not had any build up in my chimney in fact these burns so completely they're actually cleaner than firewood in my opinion. Obviously just like any other combustion thing they burn more complete the hotter you burn them. The ash lays down and compacts better which means cleaning out the stove less often. Since you really have no bark or dirt the combustion is very complete

[@jasonrist6582]

can that mold be press you have be used to make adobe or papercrete bricks?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

I would think so

[@thatswhatshesaid1]

What percentage of moisture retains in the coffee when you burn? I can't burn anything more than 20%

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

You can burn at any percentile. Burning cleanly obviously you're correct you need to be under 20%. But this is different this is the same difference as charcoal. The moment it's dry you will know cuz it will literally weigh nothing. And the coffee has already been dry roasted previously so it's like taking a piece of oak and dipping it in water only the outside will absorb any small amount of water and it can dry off very quickly. So when you make these and then put them out to dry once they're dried out the coffee is back to dry roasted again That's why they weigh nothing

[@thatswhatshesaid1]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Gotcha, we have a masonry heater, thing burns at 1800 degrees but the wood isn't 20% or less you can blow some of the mortar out, looking forward to trying this.

[@shutincharlie3461]

Does it smell good when it burns?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

It's a sealed stove so I can't really smell it except for when I open the door and then it smelled pretty good when it was open

[@MrAbsalomdavid]

Those are straight up bricks! Very nice. U could build a house with those!

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Lol pretty light weight for that but such a cool project with real world applications

[@MrAbsalomdavid]

@@thefrugalhomestead7873 at least you would then know how long your house made of those bricks would burn! About 1hr 45 min! Sorry! Terrible joke heheheh!

[@ajsassafrass6883]

Not if they are flammable. But, you could make bricks of cement or something.

[@Byplasse]

Do these produce more or less creosote in the chimney, do you have to sweep it more often ?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Less as they burn more completely.

[@KENICUSONE]

How long is the drying process?

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Everyone asks that on a dead hot summer day if you were to flip it throughout the day probably 1 to 2 days out in the sun In a damp garage in the middle of winter unheated maybe 2 weeks

[@derrickboatman1560]

I like that drill press

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

Yeah it works pretty good