To understand how serious we are about eco-friendly briquettes, check out the lengths we go to in making them.
Shisa Eco-Briquettes are renowned for providing a strong, low smoke flame and a hot coal. This makes them ideal for all sorts of braai situations, whether you’re flame grilling, making a potjie or doing a regular “dop en tjop” while watching rugby with friends.
The reason for this quality fire experience? Well, it’s as much about the macadamia nutshells as it is about the process we use to turn them into briquettes.
First, We Crush Them
After the macadamia nuts have been shelled, the nuts go in their direction, and the shells come to the Shisa factory. Here we put them through a hammer mill to crush them to size which, for our process, is 5mm or smaller.
This size is ideal for us to shape and bind them into the logs that give you that amazing braai fire. After the crushing, the product is tested for moisture content and then moved to the next phase of production.
Then We Bind and Shape Them
Next the crushed macadamia nutshells move to our staging station where they go through our custom-built extruder. The extruder is, in essence, a giant corkscrew (auger) inside a forming barrel with heating elements inside. This corkscrew moves the crushed shells through the heated forming barrel, binding and shaping them in the process.
This method creates the hardest, densest logs, which translates into a longer burn time and hotter coal.
Then We Package Them to Save the Environment
Once the logs are forced out of the forming barrels, they are cut to size at the end and follow a conveyer belt to the final packing station where they’re packaged and made ready to save the environment one braai at a time.
Our hard and long burning briquettes not only give you a great flame and hot coals, they also streamline your braaiing process by eliminating the need to burn wood. This is why the log shape we create works perfectly because you can pack it like wood and burn it into charcoal.
