saychz316
Well-known member
To the Bretheren,
I currently own a few cookers. One of my favorites is my Vision Kamado I picked up from Costco last year. It took some learning, I am far from a master at it, but I can make some really tasty food with it. The Kamado is a really powerful tool in the backyard cooking world.
That being said. Lump charcoal is getting the best of me it seems. I can't seem to find any consistency in the bags. By consistency, I mean volume or size. I have tried Royal Oak. Really good stuff, but one bag will have nice decent size "lumps", and the next will look like a bag of 1" crumbs when I open it up. I have tried Frontier from Lowes, cooking consistency was a bit off, but not too bad. I have tried the hardwood lump at BBQ's galore and it was wet, dense, horrible burning lump. I tossed the bag after 2 cooks with it. But the common thread is size consistency. I understand that there are all different sizes in the bag due to it not being a manufactured product like briquettes, but an entire 20# bag of crumbs with maybe 5 decent size pieces to set a base with is getting tiresome.
I know the preferred method of fuel is lump charcoal for these cookers. Is it a crime to use kingsford in these things? Does it really ruin the ceramic and change the dynamics of the cooker and taste of the food? My cooker is very well seasoned by now, and I am really leaning toward just using kingsford blue exclusively now. I use it in my other cookers with wood chunks, and I absolutely love the way they work, consistently burn, and are consistent bag after bag. :thumb:
The Royal Oak red bags I get from Home Depot here in Orange County are by far the best I have used in terms of lump, but I am just tired of spending the money on a 4 or 5 bag purchase, and having 2-3 of those bags being mostly crumbs that plug up the bottom grate. :mad2:
Thanks in advance. Im headed to the Depot now to get some stuff for a home project, gonna give the lump one last go, but I think I am pretty much convinced on making the switch to briquettes all across the board in my cookers.
I currently own a few cookers. One of my favorites is my Vision Kamado I picked up from Costco last year. It took some learning, I am far from a master at it, but I can make some really tasty food with it. The Kamado is a really powerful tool in the backyard cooking world.
That being said. Lump charcoal is getting the best of me it seems. I can't seem to find any consistency in the bags. By consistency, I mean volume or size. I have tried Royal Oak. Really good stuff, but one bag will have nice decent size "lumps", and the next will look like a bag of 1" crumbs when I open it up. I have tried Frontier from Lowes, cooking consistency was a bit off, but not too bad. I have tried the hardwood lump at BBQ's galore and it was wet, dense, horrible burning lump. I tossed the bag after 2 cooks with it. But the common thread is size consistency. I understand that there are all different sizes in the bag due to it not being a manufactured product like briquettes, but an entire 20# bag of crumbs with maybe 5 decent size pieces to set a base with is getting tiresome.
I know the preferred method of fuel is lump charcoal for these cookers. Is it a crime to use kingsford in these things? Does it really ruin the ceramic and change the dynamics of the cooker and taste of the food? My cooker is very well seasoned by now, and I am really leaning toward just using kingsford blue exclusively now. I use it in my other cookers with wood chunks, and I absolutely love the way they work, consistently burn, and are consistent bag after bag. :thumb:
The Royal Oak red bags I get from Home Depot here in Orange County are by far the best I have used in terms of lump, but I am just tired of spending the money on a 4 or 5 bag purchase, and having 2-3 of those bags being mostly crumbs that plug up the bottom grate. :mad2:
Thanks in advance. Im headed to the Depot now to get some stuff for a home project, gonna give the lump one last go, but I think I am pretty much convinced on making the switch to briquettes all across the board in my cookers.
