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Resol ,
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We still use it to heat our tea.

TTimo ,

Coal for heating at my grandma’s place yeah. In the southern US, you can also see trains filled with the stuff going west along I-40.

Acamon ,

Use to have an open coal fire in my childhood home. Made many a coal fire. It’s very sooty on the hands!

LifeInMultipleChoice ,

It wasn’t charcoal? That sounds wretched. Would it not release toxins into the house?

Acamon , (edited )

Don’t think so! Defintely much heavier and more solid than bbq charcoal. I don’t remember it being very smoky, weird less so than wood fires (which have a distinctive and pleasant smell) or peat fires, which were also common in my region but would trigger my asthma. But possibly it was just that I was used to coal? Maybe someone else would have found it gross?

Edit: Doing a bit of research, it seems like historically home fires would use bituminous coal, but by the time I was a child it was anthracite coal that was used. Which only releases 20% of the smoke of bituminous coal. But it’s still a fossil fuel, and not charcoal.

sarmale ,

I used it at barbeques, other than that no

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

Is that not charcoal?

sarmale ,

Yes it was actually charcoal lol. Both coal and charcoal are translated as cărbune in romanian so until now I thought both of them were the same thing

RatBin ,

It’s a dark rock…for reasons I have lumps of coal embedded in the concrete of the basement

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I have no idea how they got there. Probably the coal used when they wete pouring the concrete left there. Again, no idea

oDIRECTORo ,

Yes, in west Virginia… The shits everywhere.

Dumbkid ,
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Yeah was an old quarry near my house when I young used to throw rocks and sticks of the huge cliff there, was a decent amount of coal around

Breezy ,

Me and my sister got coal for christmas one year we were extra annoying. Mother just brought in some from the grill bag, i know she wanted to make a point but my older sister litteraly said oh we can just grill out with this! Made our mom sooo mad. It didnt help we had copious amounts of gifts from our grandparents so it didn’t matter to us. We were mostly good kids, just brats. Besides the time we attacked the mail man, I believe that was the coal year.

T156 ,

Don’t grills use charcoal briquettes rather than actual lumps of coal?

Breezy ,

Yeah man maybe, i have no idea. My family used a coal grill and tossed what i think as coal into the bottom and lit it on fire to cook food. This was almost 30 years ago. If that wasnt real coal then 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Anticorp ,

Yes, that’s not coal.

AceFuzzLord ,

Closest I’ve ever seen outside of pictures of coal or digital representations of it would be charcoal, for grilling. Otherwise, I’ve never seen it, unless I saw it once in a geology class I did in the fall and don’t remember it.

Adalast ,

My father runs live steam engines.

acchariya ,

We used it to heat our house growing up. But only on the very coldest nights, normally we’d use wood since the coal would actually put out too much heat. This was the 80s through early 90s in New York state, us.

dream_weasel ,

I had a hookah for a long time, so yes.

MSugarhill ,

Not sure what the English terms are, but we used Steinkohle (stone coal) for barbecue in the 80s and 90s,so I guess yes.

MrsDoyle ,

Charcoal?

wratanar ,

Yes. We still heated our house with wood and coal in the 90s. I remember a big truck brought coal for us before winter. We even had a dedicated coal room in the cellar.

Matriks404 ,

Yeah, used it for heating, just until few years ago when we switched entirely to central heating, mainly because it become illegal to use coal for heating in my area.

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