Binchotan
Ubame oak fired to near-pure carbon. Rings like metal when struck, burns clean and without smoke. For the courses that need violence.
- Burn
- 4 hrs
- Smoke
- None
- For
- Wagyu · duck
There is no dial at Ember & Ash. Every plate is cooked over binchotan and local fruitwood, lit at four in the afternoon and fed by hand until the last seat leaves. The kitchen reads heat the old way — by the colour of the coal and the sound of the fat.
Ubame oak fired to near-pure carbon. Rings like metal when struck, burns clean and without smoke. For the courses that need violence.
Dense, sweet-smoked, the wood of Cantonese roast houses. Slow to catch, slower to fade. It perfumes butter, bread and fat.
Pruned from orchard trees, seasoned a full year. A brighter, sharper smoke that loves shellfish and anything glazed.
Cultured butter · lychee smoke · kombu salt
Cooked at 220°C
Young leek · brown-butter sabayon · hazelnut
Cooked at 340°C
Flower crab · calamansi · crab-fat chilli oil
Cooked at 460°C
Pork jowl · fermented bean · pickled shallot
Cooked at 580°C
14-day duck · lychee · Sichuan pepper · plum
Cooked at 720°C
A5 striploin · bone marrow · burnt onion
Cooked at 860°C
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