Supagrill Wonder Briquettes

[Askoir]

Hi All,

Has anyone used these on seen any reviews on them yet?
Keen to see how they stack up against Heat Beads as they are a lot cheaper.

Links to them

http://www.supagrill.co.uk/supagrill-wo ... %93-12kg-2
http://www.coals2u.co.uk/supagrill-wond ... 80%93-12kg

Thanks,

Zak

[ConorD]

I have a stack of heat beads to get through but may try them after just to see and not a bad price if they are as good (£1/KG)

[Askoir]

Picked up two bags so will try out over the Easter weekend & let you know what I think of them.
Hope they are as good as they say as I have always got on well with Supagrill products

[ConorD]

Have you used Heat Beads to compare as I love them - mainly cos there is so much left after a cook.

[Askoir]

I have used heat beads quite a few times but not recently. Have a few bags in my garage but saving them for special occasions. I mainly use big k restaurant lump now but for longer cooks have been working my way through the many bags of Weber briquettes I got when Argos were selling off the 3kg bags at £1.99 each. If these new briquettes are anywhere near as good as heat beads then I will be very happy considering the cost.

[Scantily]

I too would be very interested in how these perform. I mainly use restaurant lump from bookers and have tried heat beads for a few cooks. Didn't notice any distinct advantages apart from the obvious benefits of the consistent briquette shape and none of the crushed up chumbly bits you get at the bottom of lump bags, downside being they're mighty expensive!

[Scantily]

I have used heat beads quite a few times but not recently. Have a few bags in my garage but saving them for special occasions. I mainly use big k restaurant lump now but for longer cooks have been working my way through the many bags of Weber briquettes I got when Argos were selling off the 3kg bags at £1.99 each. If these new briquettes are anywhere near as good as heat beads then I will be very happy considering the cost.

Hello buddy, any update on how well the new wonder briquettes compare against heat beads & restaurant quality lump?

Thanks.

[Askoir]

Done a couple of cooks with them over the weekend. On both occasions it was rotisserie chicken using weber charcoal baskets on a weber performer. These briquettes are nearly twice the size of normal briquettes. A fair few of them had broken into pieces in the bag but were still usable.

Initial thoughts are
- they light really quickly
- leave a fair amount of ash
- not sure if that much better than normal briquettes as in burn time & heat output
- not in the same league as weber briquettes let alone heat beads.

Going to do some more tests this week & maybe try them at the same time alongside other briquettes to get a more accurate comparison & confirmation that my above thoughts are correct.

[Askoir]

I too would be very interested in how these perform. I mainly use restaurant lump from bookers and have tried heat beads for a few cooks. Didn't notice any distinct advantages apart from the obvious benefits of the consistent briquette shape and none of the crushed up chumbly bits you get at the bottom of lump bags, downside being they're mighty expensive!

I used to use the blue bag lump & still have a couple of bags left but now use Big K restaurant lump which I think is loads better & has less waste than the blue bags.

I'll also try to do a comparison against restaurant lump as well this week.

[Deano]

Thanks for the update, shame they were not as good as hoped