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Big Green Egg charcoal works well, but is expensive. Guy on this site rates lump charcoal:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag11.htm

He says Royal Oak makes BGE charcoal. Royal Oak is available 25 miles away. BGE charcoal is 40 miles (80 round trip) but they also have Wicked Good Charcoal, both competition and weekend warrior.

Available in my town: Cowboy, which I like but is skimpy on smoke flavor and doesn't get super hot. Also Lazzari Mesquite, which gets hotter than Cowboy and which looks more like real mesquite wood with round branches and shit. But it pops and sparks a lot. I bought my first bag of Lazzari tonight and after I got done lighting the fire, I had little black pieces of charcoal floating in my gin tonic. Not good. I did not taste grit on the steaks (except maybe I did because I was looking for it.)

So, does anyone have a recommendation for lump charcoal. Is it worth ordering?

These are my desired attributes, in descending order of import:

Impart a mild smoke taste
Not produce a lot of ash
Be easy to light
Not be too goddamn expensive

How 'bout a 10 lb bag of shut your fat face

BucketHead wrote:How 'bout a 10 lb bag of shut your fat face

How 'bout you learn what the "dumb end" of baseball bat is?

Tim, what search terms got you to "NakedWhiz.com"?

"Best Lump Charcoal"

seeahill wrote:
How 'bout you learn what the "dumb end" of baseball bat is?

Jerk-off, twit, pathetic little needle-dicked shit weasel

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Hey you dumb bitch I posted that same shit a few weeks ago on Dr. Mengele-Row's post about getting a BIG GREEN EGG for Father's Day. So guess what? You're stupid and you have a tiny dick.

Shapecharge wrote: So guess what? You're stupid and you have a tiny dick.

Shapecharge wrote:Hey you dumb bitch I posted that same shit a few weeks ago on Dr. Mengele-Row's post about getting a BIG GREEN EGG for Father's Day. So guess what? You're stupid and you have a tiny dick.

Charcoal name?

BucketHead wrote:

seeahill wrote:
How 'bout you learn what the "dumb end" of baseball bat is?

Jerk-off, twit, pathetic little needle-dicked shit weasel

The "dumb end" is the way you go.

I don't know, but I was watching "How They Make Shit" on the science channel the other night with the shorties, and they were talking about how Henry Ford made wooden Model-T wheels, and how they had tons of scrap wood left over, and Henry said "Hey, I ought to do something with all this shit laying around, and so he started to make charcoal briquets, but then he approached his friend named...wait for it...Kingsford, and said, "Why don't you make this shit, I'll sell you the scrap wood. You'll get rich and I'll get richer."

And that's the story of charcoal briquets in America. They've got carcinogenic binders in them, probably. They add something to it, I wasn't paying close enough attention.

Timmah we's just playin' witchu. I am going to try the Walmart shit after I'm finished with my BGE stuff. Much cheaper.

nafod wrote:I don't know, but I was watching "How They Make Shit" on the science channel the other night with the shorties, and they were talking about how Henry Ford made wooden Model-T wheels, and how they had tons of scrap wood left over, and Henry said "Hey, I ought to do something with all this shit laying around, and so he started to make charcoal briquets, but then he approached his friend named...wait for it...Kingsford, and said, "Why don't you make this shit, I'll sell you the scrap wood. You'll get rich and I'll get richer."

And that's the story of charcoal briquets in America. They've got carcinogenic binders in them, probably. They add something to it, I wasn't paying close enough attention.

First they gotta make "lump charcoal." Then they pulverize it and bind it and stamp it into briquets. So the lump charcoal we were talking about above doesn't have any binders. It's just charcoal, and only really really hep cats use it.

I suggest this: http://scandinavianfood.about.com/od/co ... xhowto.htm

Given your history, you should really stay away from fire.

seeahill wrote:

nafod wrote:I don't know, but I was watching "How They Make Shit" on the science channel the other night with the shorties, and they were talking about how Henry Ford made wooden Model-T wheels, and how they had tons of scrap wood left over, and Henry said "Hey, I ought to do something with all this shit laying around, and so he started to make charcoal briquets, but then he approached his friend named...wait for it...Kingsford, and said, "Why don't you make this shit, I'll sell you the scrap wood. You'll get rich and I'll get richer."

And that's the story of charcoal briquets in America. They've got carcinogenic binders in them, probably. They add something to it, I wasn't paying close enough attention.

First they gotta make "lump charcoal." Then they pulverize it and bind it and stamp it into briquets. So the lump charcoal we were talking about above doesn't have any binders. It's just charcoal, and only really really hep cats use it.

Dried Elephant Dung is highly sought after for its flavor imparting.

I don't know about the BGE, but charcoal doesn't provide the smoke in other smokers. That's what the smoke wood is for.

Pinky wrote:I don't know about the BGE, but charcoal doesn't provide the smoke in other smokers. That's what the smoke wood is for.

Yes, in ceramic cookers, like the BGE, the charcoal provides smoke taste. Some charcoals provide a lot. I don't want that. I want a touch. When I want intense smoke flavor, I throw soaked wood chips on the fire.

seeahill wrote:
First they gotta make "lump charcoal." Then they pulverize it and bind it and stamp it into briquets. So the lump charcoal we were talking about above doesn't have any binders. It's just charcoal, and only really really hep cats use it.

Nope, not true ... I use it.

The Crawdaddy wrote:

seeahill wrote:
First they gotta make "lump charcoal." Then they pulverize it and bind it and stamp it into briquets. So the lump charcoal we were talking about above doesn't have any binders. It's just charcoal, and only really really hep cats use it.

Nope, not true ... I use it.

Unbeknownst to you, you may be a hep cat.

Timmah what the fuck is wrong with you? Nobody gives a shit about fucking charcoal. Tell us some cool stories about druggin' it up and bangin' celebrity bitches back in the 60's and 70's when you were writing for Rolling Stone. We've put up with your shit the whole time waiting for this. I've politely asked you to do this before and you basically blew me off. You don't have to name names but give us enough clues so we can figure it out like...she was tall and lean and had a short dude singing partner who's name rhymes with "Honey" and her name rhymes with "Hair." See? That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about for fucks sake.

Tim, Royal Oak and Kingsford are the standards for competition BBQ.

Nobody wants to hear about Tim and Chaz.

Shapecharge wrote:Timmah what the fuck is wrong with you? Nobody gives a shit about fucking charcoal. Tell us some cool stories about druggin' it up and bangin' celebrity bitches back in the 60's and 70's when you were writing for Rolling Stone. We've put up with your shit the whole time waiting for this. I've politely asked you to do this before and you basically blew me off. You don't have to name names but give us enough clues so we can figure it out like...she was tall and lean and had a short dude singing partner who's name rhymes with "Honey" and her name rhymes with "Hair." See? That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about for fucks sake.

Went out with a famous groupie who'd lived with Paul McCartney for a few months. She claimed "Why don't we do it in the road" was "her song." She was writing a book about her experiences and was apparently working her way through writers and journalists: perhaps a envisioning a second book. She told me, essentially, that I was bigger and better then Paul. A few weeks later, I was having drinks with colleagues and and it turned out that they, too, were bigger and better than Paul. Either Paul wasn't much, or she said that to all the boys.