where are the briquette guru's?

[sirmissalot]

I can keep a pretty consistent temp in mine if I build a fire in the smoker side. Between the intake and damper on the chimney it's not too bad once you get a good base of coals going.

[carvermoe]

I have 4 webers, They can do alot of great BBQ.
One thing I almost always do,is  count my briquets.Thats the way to control temp.
Also it's easy to add more for longer cook times. They work great for direct or indirect.

[Kc_Kracker]

well i can say a brinkman gourmet is junk, wouldnt stay lit all damn day even once they were burning HOT and all ashed up grey after 30 minutes it would go out and drop temp like crazy with the vent open or closed.

[deerhunter_98520]

I wouldn't use propane    charcoal/wood is the only way to go .....and using lighter fluid is the first rule you learn...never use it....get a stack and put newspaper under it and light it...it will get the charcoal going and your food tastes soooo much better

[BackStrappin]

Get yourself an Akorn Grill ... Fred Myer and Lowes carries them.

You can high heat sear , cook pizza or go low and slow . They  Hold Temps pretty well and with a few mod's they are even better . I havent had to do any mods on mine it I can do a 14 hour cook for pork shoulders .  It's a very efficient cooker.

I either use the Webber Lighter CUbes or A propane torch to light the charcoal .

Good luck .

[762Armo]

I buy the 50lb bags of charcoal from Cash n' Carry. I use it to bbq 99.9% of everything that I do. I'll stack the charcoal on top of each other, to make a natural chimeney effect, through a starter of sorts in the middle of the pile, and use a tad of gasoline to start it. Gasoline burns fast and evaporates, no after taste, compared to some of the presoaked briquettes. As far as the grill itself, you can use pretty much anything. I use skewers for most of my bbqing needs, so any surface really can be used. I've done it on the ground, putting up bricks/rocks across from each other and laying the skewers on it.

[Kc_Kracker]

I wouldn't use propane    charcoal/wood is the only way to go .....and using lighter fluid is the first rule you learn...never use it....get a stack and put newspaper under it and light it...it will get the charcoal going and your food tastes soooo much better

i think it was the crappy smoker because i went thru 2 sunday papers and a few cardboard boxes and they wouldnt burn at all. even after putting a handfull of ligtherfluid coals in there it still wouldnt get going i think the unit is vented badly

[Tight Spin]

Sounds like maybe your briquette's had been damp at some time. I   leave the lid open when i start mine and never have had  a problem getting them lit.

[Kc_Kracker]

they were brand new. along with the next few bags we had the same issue with. i modified it and now its good.

[rasbo]

I will use briquettes at times,but hard wood and gas put out better BBQ to me,coal taste crappy to me,I light with paper and chimney when I do use them..

[Kc_Kracker]

everyone thats helped thanks a ton, i posted a thread on our new unit, we call it the beast we bought the largest one available locally 

[KFhunter]

I wad up a couple fist sized balls of newspaper and stuff the bottom of the chimney with that, then I stick a small propane torch in the lighter hole and just leave it run 4-5 minutes

never fails to light that way.


Once I've got the briquettes in the chimney lit off good I spread them out with long tongs then stack more unlit briquettes right on top of them,  as long as they touch a gray one they'll burn too.  Could use a whole sack this way.   Good way to light lump too,  use standard pressed briquettes and light them in a chimney then spread them out and put the lump right on top your bed of gray kingsford type pressed ones.

[Kc_Kracker]

i just followed the directions on a youtube video, it said roll up just 1 piece of paper in a long twisted tube, coil it, stuff it underneath then light. hasnt failed in about 10 trys now. i have also read the kind like i have with a coil in the bottom instead of tin with holes works way better.

[Mossy]

Never had a problem with a weber chimney. If all else fails, throw a weber starter cube under it. Or, make your own......