Spitting Restaurant Charcoal

[Rivierabbq]

looked on several threads, but cant see an answer at the moment.

Bought one of the bags of restaurant grade lumpwood charcoal from Makro, and when i used it, it was spitting and crackling like mad, which resulted in food on the smoker (OFFSET) getting bits of charcoal/ash over the food...

In the end i used briquttes as usual, then used the lumpwood once i foiled the food,.

Is there any solution to this, or am i doing something wrong??

if you know of an existing thread, then please point me in the direction of it to save re-explaining...

Thanks in advance.......

Glenn

[KamadoSimon]

You are not doing anything wrong - some charcoal does this more than others.

Normally it stops once fully lit - so for your use in your smoker i would try adding charcoal to already lit briquettes or pre-lighting in a charcoal lighter before adding to the smoker.

Tis a pain, but this is why i stopped using the generic blue bags as you don't know who has supplied it and thus you can't know if you are going to get consistent results from it.

Hope that helps,

Simon

[keith157]

Here are a couple of threads

http://www.bbbqs.com/Forum/viewtopic.ph ... oal#p19093
http://www.bbbqs.com/Forum/viewtopic.ph ... oal#p16593

[Rivierabbq]

Thanks guys,

I have a few bags of Cocoshell briquettes coming, so will use the remaining stuff in conjunction with it..

Will look at the other threads too, thank you

[keith157]

IMO I'd not mix cocoshell, it's absolutely brilliant and leaves hardly any residue, but unless your just going to use the remaining lumpwood for grilling I'd not mix the two as temps couldn't be maintained.

[Rivierabbq]

Cheers, used the cocoshell before, and it is damn good stuff... Will hopefully pick up an upright at Grillstock, so will use the Cocoshell for that, then use the remaining 'normal' briquettes and the lumpwood for the offsets and grilling...


Again, cheers for the advice