Charcoal...

I like this charcoal.



I use it in my Weber grills, sometimes in the pit and I will use it in the new WSM's I bought.



Be my luck Lowe's will stop carrying it. But anyway...

The WSM is about ready for a break in cook. I had more access doors made because I don't like the loose fitting flimsy doors that came with them. A little fine tuning and they will be ready to go.

It'll make a Rabbit want ta smack a Dog!!!

Big Daddy

Rib Cook...

Always a stumbling stone somewhere...









I had talked about using the Nature-Glo lump charcoal and liking it a lot. Burns clean, very little ash, pure wood. I got it at Gordon Food Service here in Nashville.

Now...they don't carry it anymore. They stock their own brand of lump. I've used their charcoal before so I thought, what the hell, I'll give it a shot.

Never again...

It's true when they say you get what you pay for.

The Nature-Glo lump was $12 a bag, the GFS (Gordon Food Service) lump was $9 a bag.

Nature-Glo is good solid wood lump, no scrap wood. The GFS lump was trash wood kind of like Cowboy Lump when it started out. Cowboy has improved their quality some, but not enough.

GFS had a burnt smell to it too, I could tell it was scrap wood and not of very good quality scrap wood at that. So that brand will definitely not grace my firebox.

Luckily, I still had some Nature-Glo left to cook with...

The only other lump that is available around here is the Big Green Egg brand made by Royal Oak. A friend of mine cooks with it and he really likes it. It's about $15 a bag so I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Green Egg is a pretty big brand name. If I don't like it...I'll just have to order Nature-Glo on line and be done with it...

(I am not a sponsor nor a salesman for Nature-Glo. If I was, I would have a garage full of it and wouldn't be complaining about not being able to find it.)

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Big Daddy

Charcoal...part II

I used this lump and I like it. I'll have to be careful though because it does burn hotter than regular charcoal.

The pit did want to run hot at first, until I got use to this, but it didn't take me long and it was my fault, but she calmed down and settled in.



And the price was good too.

12 dollars for a 22 lb bag is not bad at all.



I'll do a few more cooks as soon as work settles down and experiment a little more with lump to see how little is needed and how long it will last to get my firebox timing in order.



Cooking is like therapy, it keeps me from doing dishes...
Big Daddy

Charcoal...

The last cook was done with regular charcoal and it produced a lot of ash to be contended with. The next cook will be done with lump charcoal.



I've read the reviews and this can be purchased here locally with no problem, so I'll give it a try. I can't find Rancher lump around here and I would like to try the Weekend Warrior lump, but I don't think it would be worth the price of shipping it from New England to Tennessee.

So I'll just try the Nature-Glo and see what happens.



Cooking is like therapy, it keeps me from doing dishes...
Big Daddy