Learning to BBQ
is Blowin Smoke!
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2015
- Location
- Cobourg, ontario
Around here all the stores I regularly shop at stock Royal Oak charcoal briquettes. It's the cheapest, $8.99 for 15lbs. One stocks Kingsford BB same size for $14.99. Figuring there's little difference between RO and Kingsford, and being the frugal guy I am, I've always just bought the RO. I felt experimental a couple of weeks ago and splurged for $20 for Weber briquettes for a 20lb bag (their bag is ridiculous with the zip seal thingy on the side, next time its just cut the top off). The weber briquettes are larger and leave way less ash. What your left with at the end of a quick grill (mostly what we do) is still usable, whereas the smaller RO briquettes are smaller when I'm done and shut down once lit again are pretty much done. I opened a bag of RO on fiday and i'm pretty much done of it now on sunday. Just seems the Weber bag lasted way longer with way less ash. Thinking it may be worth it to spend the extra money. What has been your experiences? I don't have the choices some of you have keep in mind. I just emptied the ash catcher and it was full after three short cooks with the RO.