Second hand Binchotan with gold price !
Binchotan is supposed to be the premium charcoal. Authentic Japanese binchotan should be very dense and produce a metallic sound when the pieces are tapped together.
Unfortunately, I received broken fragments that were not very dense. I tried them yesterday, and the heat did not last long at all. After just one hour in the konro BBQ, there were no solid pieces left.
This seems more like second-grade binchotan, even though it was sold as “gold” grade. I will not order from here again.








