Big Frank
Full Fledged Farker
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2009
- Location
- Meredith NH
Part of it could be in my head but I think I can taste the briquettes (KBB) on the finished product. The other part was needing to refill the water pan and spend a good chunk of time monkeying with the vents (wind and fog weren't kind to it) which also led to increased fuel consumption which lead to needing to add more fuel which... I figure if I'm going to have to baby sit it as much as a stick burner I may as well get a stick burner. Or go in the totally opposite direction with pellets.
I put a Guru on it and while the babysitting needs have gone down some the taste still has me :mmph:
I suspected as much(briquettes)
Some people can taste the briquettes some cannot. Obviously you can. I stopped using briqs because I could taste it too.
Your problems are easy to solve.
1. Don't use briquettes , use lump. No off taste i can guarantee that.
2. Don't use water in your wsm. Some use a foiled pan, some use sand in the pan and some use no pan at all.
I've been cooking with KBB for over 40 years ,fed hundreds of people and never had a complaint about charcoal taste.
Bought a Primo XL a few years ago. My wife hated anything I cooked on it.
Tried 4-5 different brands of lump. I sold it last week and ordered a Blazn Grill Works Grand Slam.
I think the smell when you lite the charcoal gets in people's head.