Basics for using lump charcoal for smoking?

[Happy Hapgood]

My .02 is that it just plans for it to burn hotter and faster than coal. Need to experiment and decide.

Good Luck!

[riverratdave]

Originally Posted by 70monte

I smoke with Lump charcoal all of the time in my Good One smokers but they are a different design than what you are using. My temps stay pretty steady but I don't know if that is because of the design of my smoker or not.

I have smoked food on other cookers that I use briquettes in and I can't really tell a difference in taste but I don't do any back to back tests either.

I never smoked with lump until I got my Good One, only used it to grill steaks.

The Good One is designed around using only lump by controlling the burn and it does a great job of giving 275 for 6 hours on about 10 lbs of lump.

Didn't think I would ever use lump for smoking, think again.

[70monte]

Originally Posted by riverratdave

I never smoked with lump until I got my Good One, only used it to grill steaks.

The Good One is designed around using only lump by controlling the burn and it does a great job of giving 275 for 6 hours on about 10 lbs of lump.

Didn't think I would ever use lump for smoking, think again.

I was the same except I had never used lump at all, just Kingsford blue bag for everything. I did try briquettes in my Open Range once when I didn't have any lump and it worked okay.