BerryPatchBBQ
Found some matches.
Which do you prefer and what brand? I have used all kinds. Just wandering how many different selections this will get.
Lump vs. Charcoal
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mikeleonard81
Full Fledged Farker
GFS lump in my stick burner just to get it going. Not a lot of junk in it. Burns HOT!
BrotherInArms
Knows what a fatty is.
cowboy lump coal
Smokin'Butts
Full Fledged Farker
B&B Oak lump, good stuff and it keeps getting better!
nucornhusker
Babbling Farker
Lump only. My favorite is The Good One, but I also like Kamado Joe, Big Green Egg, Royal Oak and Fire King.
CBQ
is One Chatty Farker
Both from Wicked Good - lump in the offset, briquettes in the backwoods
RobKC
is one Smokin' Farker
Stubbs briquettes are all I use in my Superiors. They burn clean and produce little ash compared to K.
Cut-n-Que
Well-known member
I like the Kingsford Competition.
Dex
is one Smokin' Farker
+1 in my Backwoods
dwfisk
Quintessential Chatty Farker
I had settled into buying Stubbs brickettes or Cowboy Lump, but I've just started making my own lump and I'm very happy with it. Made 2 batches now & have about 80 pounds on hand, so I doubt if I'll be buying charcoal except as a backup.
ShencoSmoke
is Blowin Smoke!
My local Walmart stopped selling royal oak lump so I tried cowboy lump and hated it. I couldn't get it to burn hot enough. Do you have that problem?
bigzthamoose
Knows what a fatty is.
I tried going with lump in my superior, bc of the whole idea that is burns cleaner, but, two for two, it got caught up in the chute, and didnt burn correct, causing a nasty smoke flare up, like when ya just start the coals. It sucked. Made my food have black crap, so i went back to Kingsford Competition Briquettes. In my gravity fed smoker, i say briquettes are best.
tonyb
Knows what a fatty is.
We switched from briquettes to lump about half way through the year and are happy with the results.
We get cleaner and longer cooks with the lump than we did with briquettes.
Right now we are using Royal Oak, mainly because it is easy to come by (Nature Glo and GFS are both just repackaged Royal Oak). We cooked a few times with Ozark Oak and loved it but it is much harder for us to get in Ohio.
We get cleaner and longer cooks with the lump than we did with briquettes.
Right now we are using Royal Oak, mainly because it is easy to come by (Nature Glo and GFS are both just repackaged Royal Oak). We cooked a few times with Ozark Oak and loved it but it is much harder for us to get in Ohio.
Dex
is one Smokin' Farker
Interesting... you get longer smokes out of lump over briquettes? I thought it was usually the other way around?
MarleyMan
is one Smokin' Farker
BB-Kuhn
Full Fledged Farker
For grilling anything less than an hour cook time, I really like lump. Hot as heck and starts fast too.
For smoking, I like the constant steady burn of charcoal briquettes if I am not using a temp control unit (fan system). I like how predictable it burns.
If you're going on fan(s), lump is cleaner and often more efficient.
It doesn't really matter. Get used to whatever you like and you'll get good at it.
For smoking, I like the constant steady burn of charcoal briquettes if I am not using a temp control unit (fan system). I like how predictable it burns.
If you're going on fan(s), lump is cleaner and often more efficient.
It doesn't really matter. Get used to whatever you like and you'll get good at it.
tonyb
Knows what a fatty is.
We were surprised with the result as well. We didn't expect that at all.
It is most noticeable in our big cooker (ABS Judge). We put in probably half as much (by weight, not volume) as we did when we used briquettes and get probably 20% longer cook time before we have to refill. The firebox on the Judge is pretty big and there is lots of air in the cooking chamber to feed the fire, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I'm not sure we have observed the same increase in our smaller cooker (ABS Bar-B-Cube, same general design as a WSM).
We control both smokers with a stoker.
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