Fired my WSM up for the first time today. I prefer RO briquettes to Kingsford for grilling, so I used them for this too.
Question for more experienced WSM users: why did my 22.5 use an entire 15.4 LB bag of Royal Oak Briquettes in 8 hours today running at 270? This is stunning to me. Many guys are getting 16+ hours out of the same size bag of Kingsford Blue. I cannot believe RO is this much worse. As a matter of fact, one test another guy ran on his website (that another Brethren linked to a while back) showed it to be superior to Kingsford Blue in how long it lasted. Was this just one weird / bad bag of charcoal or something else? It was this exact bag:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Royal-Oak-...BgDqeGEMbNgULtLQuAG0BjaHqAPFqHHhoCvGoQAvD_BwE
Question for more experienced WSM users: why did my 22.5 use an entire 15.4 LB bag of Royal Oak Briquettes in 8 hours today running at 270? This is stunning to me. Many guys are getting 16+ hours out of the same size bag of Kingsford Blue. I cannot believe RO is this much worse. As a matter of fact, one test another guy ran on his website (that another Brethren linked to a while back) showed it to be superior to Kingsford Blue in how long it lasted. Was this just one weird / bad bag of charcoal or something else? It was this exact bag:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Royal-Oak-...BgDqeGEMbNgULtLQuAG0BjaHqAPFqHHhoCvGoQAvD_BwE