Charcoal and wood chunks

[Steven D]

Hi,

I've always bought my charcoal and wood chunks from tesco or asda but read some bad things about purchasing it from there, has anyone got any good any recommendations on what to buy and and where to buy online?

[JEC]

Tesco is fine as long as you stay away from easy lighting stuff. Personly I get mine from BigK and pick up wood locally from trees (my father in law is a gardener), many people on here use Paul Goulden for wood chunks, he posts on here if you look for him. Links to both sources below

BigK go for RCH15 for smoking but others are equally good
http://www.bigkproducts.co.uk/Catalog-BBQ-Charcoal_29.aspx

Gouldens Wood Supplies
http://bbqsmokingwood.co.uk

[Steven D]

Hi thanks for the reply

How much roughly of a 15kg bag would you use for a 10-14 hour smoke for a large pork butt etc.

[keith157]

Hi Steven, I'm not sure you will get a straight answer as it depends on a lot of variables, including, but not limited to:- make and type of cooker, air temp, quality of charcoal, whether you use forced air act.
On the Harry Sol course they put a quantity of heat beads on at 10pm and it was still chugging along wwhen we left around 4pm.

[JEC]

As Keith said this is quite variable. For me on an XL BGE I probably get 5 10 hour cooks out of a bag, it would probably have been half that on my old WSM.

[Steven D]

OK thanks guys , its a new WSM 57cm and I live in sunny Scotland , it look's like with what you are saying it will just be trial and error. Hopefully I won't need a 2nd mortgage for the supply of charcoal.

[slatts]

Hi

I have a 57cm wsm and a bag of weber long burning charcoal (white bag) with a forced air system went 15hrs, took meat off but might of got another hour or so.

I believe the forced air system will pay for itself over time with saving on charcoal.

[Steven D]

Hi

I have a 57cm wsm and a bag of weber long burning charcoal (white bag) with a forced air system went 15hrs, took meat off but might of got another hour or so.

I believe the forced air system will pay for itself over time with saving on charcoal.

Hi, can you please tell me the size of bag you use and which force air system you have

[slatts]

Hi

I use the 7kg bag of weber charcoal and the wife got me the Pitmaster IQ for xmas.
If you click on the "the british bbq society" at the top of the page it'll go to the society's home page and there'll be a link to the "shop". You can buy the Pitmaster there.

The charcoal is about £12-13 a bag and the pitmaster is roughly £140

Hope that helps

[slatts]

Oh and the weber firelighters are great, 2 will get a full chimney going in no time