For the Japanese restaurant concept, see Teppanyaki.
For the video game boss with the same name, see DoDonpachi.
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The hibachi (Japanese: 火鉢, fire bowl) is a traditional Japanese heating device. It is a brazier which is a round, cylindrical, or box-shaped, open-topped container, made from or lined with a heatproof material and designed to hold burning charcoal. It is believed hibachi date back to the Heian period (794 to 1185).[1] It is filled with incombustible ash, and charcoal sits in the center of the ash.[2] To handle the charcoal, a pair of metal chopsticks called hibashi (火箸, fire chopsticks) is used, in a way similar to Western fire ironsortongs.[3]Hibachi were used for heating, not for cooking.[3] It heats by radiation,[4] and is too weak to warm a whole room.[2] Sometimes, people placed a tetsubin (鉄瓶, iron kettle) over the hibachi to boil water for tea.[3] Later, by the 1900s, some cooking was also done over the hibachi.[5]: 251
Traditional Japanese houses were well ventilated (or poorly sealed), so carbon monoxide poisoning or suffocation from carbon dioxide from burning charcoal were of lesser concern.[2] Nevertheless, such risks do exist, and proper handling is necessary to avoid accidents.[5]: 255 [6]Hibachi must never be used in airtight rooms such as those in Western buildings.[6]: 129
