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Originally Posted by OLS
I take a little nugget like this as gold. I have never ventured to THINK about HD selling charcoal.
I need to pick up a bag of quikcrete today, I guess I will try this out.
As for fuel though, I am really a lump charcoal guy. Mostly cause of the fact that briquets
are $hit for big cooking. Like was said elsewhere, you get store brand or cheap and it burns
store brand and cheap. Spend your whole day getting your pile hot again. The chunk is
the only thing I find burns for long periods. I also burn trash sticks alot, as I have several
pecan trees around. I use sticks and twigs to get my fire going, then add the charcoal and
wait 15 mins and i am rolling. Thanks for the tip on the Rancher stuff.
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Originally Posted by OLS
Sorry, by this I mean that the kind I tended to buy are $hit for long cooking.
I USED to buy briquets, and 7 in ten times, I bought the cheapest kind.
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To me, I've found that it doesn't matter if it's briquettes or lump; cheap is cheap and crap is crap and being cheap doesn't necessarily make it crap, and crap isn't always cheap.
True there is a greater number of fuels that are both cheap and crappy in the same bag. Some of the cheap briquettes are pretty bad (usually house brands), as are some of the cheap lumps (like cowboy, best of the west, imported royal oak). But there are also some really good inexpensive lumps (US made royal oak) and some good inexpensive briquettes (and KF is actually very reasonably priced when purchased in large 30-40+lb packs)
Some cooks like briquettes, some like lump, some like logs. It's whatever works for you, as there is no one be-all, end-all fuel that is perfect for everyone.