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Not sure if everyone is aware but Macro will now deliver charcoal and there is no need to have an account with them. It's £11.99 for 12kg and delivery is free if you spend over £60 or it's £2.99. It's their usual restaurant grade Fuel Express stuff and I've just taken delivery of a load for the winter. Hopefully this will be of use to some other members who are struggling to get charcoal at this time of year.

You can get pretty much anything from their online store and you don't have to be a member AFAIK.
It's 9.99 in store, so I guess that's where the membership comes in. I don't know if you have to pay to be a member. My company do mine.

Still handy to know though.

I'm using it at the moment and I have found it to be much more smokey than the BGE stuff I was using before and does contain some impurities (bits of string, brick and plastic so far)

You get what you pay for, it's half the price of BGE stuff.

I've found their delivery pretty unreliable... I ordered some in plenty of time to be delivered for my Dad's birthday BBQ in the middle of August and I had to email them to investigate where it had gone by the start of September. Even then it took them another 2 weeks to get my order to me.

I would second the imputrities comment, mine has loads of string, and I'm not that impressed with the size of the chunks. It's mostly small lumps by the time it has gone through the delivery process.

I've never had an issue with the size of the chunks although I have had a couple of bits of string in it. No great chore though as it's so cheap.

I've even had to break some of the silly big bits up.

I've never noticed any taint on the food either which is the main thing.