OUR STORY · EST. 2022 · DUBAI
WE LEFT CORPORATE TO PLAY WITH FIRE.
We spent years in boardrooms. In 2022 we walked out, found a kiln, and started making the barbecue we couldn’t buy.
A kamado is an old idea — clay, fire, patience. Ours are fired three times, at 1400°C, 1700°C and 1800°C, until the ceramic is hard enough to shrug off a Dubai summer, a thrown bucket of water, and twenty-five years of dinners. We put that last part in writing.
We searched Ghana, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka for coal clean enough to sit under your food. We found artists here in Dubai who lay 99% pure gold into glaze and cut Diwani calligraphy from steel.
None of it was efficient. All of it was worth it. Come cook with us.
— MARTYN, FOUNDER & CEO · BURNT CARBON, DUBAI
THE STORY SO FAR — FIVE CHAPTERS
THE LEAP
Corporate life ends. A Dubai workshop begins — one kiln and a conviction that a barbecue can be an heirloom.
THE THREE FIRES
The triple-firing schedule is locked: 1400°C, 1700°C, 1800°C. Strong enough to warrant for 25 years.
THE COLOUR WALL
Seven glazes make the cut — olive, carbon, cobalt, pearl, signal red, desert orange, mustard — across six sizes. Forty-two ways to own one.
THE ARTISTS
Kintsugi in 99% pure gold, Diwani calligraphy in laser-cut steel. A commission floor opens — made to order in about three weeks.
THE TABLE
Deliveries from Abu Dhabi to Ras Al Khaimah, recipes traded on WhatsApp. This page belongs to the people cooking.
HOW A DOME EARNS 25 YEARS
FIRED THREE TIMES.
PROMISED ONCE.
- 1400°CFIRST FIRE
The body sets. Clay stops being clay.
- 1700°CSECOND FIRE
The glaze fuses into the ceramic — colour that lives in the surface, not on it.
- 1800°CTHIRD FIRE
The proof. Hotter than the dome will ever see again in its life.
That’s why every ceramic body carries a 25-year warranty — in writing, against material defects.
THE WORKSHOP
DUBAI — WHERE EVERY DOME IS FIRED.
THE BESPOKE FLOOR
GOLD SEAMS.
STEEL CALLIGRAPHY.
Our Dubai-based artists lay kintsugi seams in 99% pure gold — every commission made to order, about three weeks from sketch to fire. Laser-cut Diwani calligraphy is part of the same story, though it's unavailable right now.
THE COMMUNITY
FIRES WE’VE LIT.
— THE INVITATION
