Have used these a lot. They work fantastic. I switched over to natural gas, because I was sick of running out of charcoal, or propane.
inb4: "If it isn't charcoal, you ain't grilling". Have done several blind, side by side, taste tests with avid grill men who swore up and down there was a huge taste difference. (natural gas vs charcoal). No difference.
Charcoal gives a smokey flavor but not from gas. Either you put chips in the gas or you left the lid off and did hot-and-fast cook with the charcoal, which would be dumb.
Keep all your mail with personal information, phone numbers, addresses etc. Use that to stuff in the bottom of those charcoal chimneys. Works great and I haven’t had to shred personal documents in a long time. (I use my BBQ nearly every day.)
It’s basically a metal tube similar to stove exhaust. Inside near the base, about 3 or so inches off the bottom there is a grate that you put the charcoal on. Under the grate you can put newspaper or those little soaked starter cube things. The small fire utilizes the chimney effect for a solid charcoal lighting with no lighter fluid needed. Once the charcoal is well lit, you dump it into whatever grill you are using.
I like to take this contraption and place it on top of my side burner for pots on my propane grill and set it to high. It lights the coal in zero time. They are a great investment if you use charcoal regularly.
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inb4: "If it isn't charcoal, you ain't grilling". Have done several blind, side by side, taste tests with avid grill men who swore up and down there was a huge taste difference. (natural gas vs charcoal). No difference.
Shit, I know I just opened pandora's box here.
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I like to take this contraption and place it on top of my side burner for pots on my propane grill and set it to high. It lights the coal in zero time. They are a great investment if you use charcoal regularly.
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Best I could find for Pennsylvania chimney
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