Are there any good "long burning" charcoals?

jealous devil is the best lump on the market, hands down. burns clean, lights with 0 sparking, smells right. never tested burn time with it tho, i just...cook stuff lol

I’d say for the longest burn..

B&B Competion Char-Logs

With that said….

Twin pack of Cowboy at Walmart is hard to beat right now!

Get’n Smokey said:

I’d say for the longest burn..

B&B Competion Char-Logs

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I agree, the char logs have significantly longer burn time and you can also get more into a given space than other charcoal fuels.

B&B logs. Hands the best "molded" charcoal. No additives, no chemicals. They start slow but run forever. Anything B&B has been stellar. My local ACE carries all the B&B offering and all have been awesome.

Just like the bags say "A little goes a long way"



When it comes to lump the green bag. Again burn hot, burn long and very little spark at start up.

From personal experience for over 25 years....


Lump charcoal burns hotter because it is almost pure carbon, so with proper airflow management you'll get a longer burn time.


From a small 8 lb bag of lump, I get a 14 hour burn in my Down East Beast with plenty of orange coals to add more lump if needed.


The downside is that lump charcoal is very fragile. People often complain that the manufacturer puts in small pieces; but that is not the case, it breaks up with poor handling and shipping after it leaves the production facility. I wrote programs for the Programmable Logic Circuits in a temporary packaging facility after Katrina. Lump manufacturers also have a line of briquette charcoal and the small pieces and the dust is diverted to briquette production.


Always take bags of lump from the center of the pallet. Gently rotate the bag to listen for excessive breakage. Get to know the department manager (I take mine vac-sealed BBQ) and he'll take a fresh pallet off the storage racks and let me pick and choose all the center bags. He even call me when he gets a new pallets delivered.


But it also looks like I might be trying the "Char-Logs". I've never seen them before.

mjr said:

Will those work in a bullet-style smoker? I have a Weber Smokey Mountain.

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Yes...works very well in my WSM...I usually start with a small amount reg B&B lump...and feed it with the logs.

I agree, B&B Char-Logs are the longest I've used. I've only used them in my Offset and not in my Kettles though, but I'm sure they would work great.

Char logs are fantastic! Works really, really well in the Santa Maria....it chits the bed in the IVS.

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jbounds286 said:

jealous devil is the best lump on the market, hands down. burns clean, lights with 0 sparking, smells right. never tested burn time with it tho, i just...cook stuff lol

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Saw Jealous Devil at Home Depot today so figured better check it out.

i tried those charlogs once, i felt like there was more ash at the end than charcoal that i started with

I'll second B&B for everyday use. I usually buy a bag of fogo or jealous devil here and there. I recently did a pork shoulder in my backwoods chubby g3 and filled it with B&B oak. I got 12 hours out of the cook, where I'd say I get about 10ish with KBB.

Inthewoods said:

Char logs are fantastic! Works really, really well in the Santa Maria....it chits the bed in the IVS.

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Bummer to hear that, I wanted to try a bag out.

I use the B&B Competition Oak Briquets and love them, long burn, moderate ash, no bad flavors or smells.