Place the charcoal disc in your heatproof vessel and on a heatproof surface or coaster.

Use small metal tongs to hold the disc over your vessel while lighting. If you're nifty with metallic chopsticks, they work too.

The safest & easiest way to ignite the disc is with is with a long-handled lighter, otherwise a candlestick or long matchstick will suffice.

Hold your disc with your tongs and hover the flame from your lighter against an edge. Never hold the charcoal in your fingers when lighting!

After a while it will spark as the heat travels through the disc, and it will start to glow red. This could take about 10 seconds so don't worry if it doesnt happen isntantly.

Your charcoal disc is ready to load when a layer of grey ash covers the entire surface.

Carefully add your incense, resins or dried herbs to the indentation on the top of the tablet. Be wary not to touch the vessel or charcoal while doing this.

You can top up the incense as necessary, but resin incense is very strong and it only takes a pinch to scent a room. Using too much may create a lot of smoke.

The charcoal tablet will naturally go out once spent, turning to a light coloured ash. Allow the ash and the vessel to completely cool before disposal.

If you need to extinguish it in a hurry, place the disc in a vessel of cool water, but never pour water onto the disk as it will spit heat.