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charcoal help uds

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I know its already been asked but I can't find anything I have finally finished the uds and now ready to session it I have bought some Australian heat beads and was wondering how much I need for a burn ie how many kg for say a 12 hour burn
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Can't comment for heatbeads, but I manage well over 12 hours on 5kg of lumpwood. Save your heatbeads and go to Sainsburys - the basics lumpwood is £4 for 4kg and is actually damn good stuff. Use the heatbeads when you cook
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im not sure id be spending the money on heat beads just to season it, id use some supermarket stuff and save the heatbeads for an actual cook
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I have not done a big cook yet 6hrs max, I switched to big k ach15 and never looked back it is better than any lump wood I have used.

I used under 5kg on my cheap offset and got a good 6hrs


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I used about 6kg of heat beads in my ProQ on my first ever cook and got 17hrs using the minion method. I was extremely happy with that.
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Thanks all sorry meant to say I was saving the heat beads for cooking with
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Artust wrote:I used about 6kg of heat beads in my ProQ on my first ever cook and got 17hrs using the minion method. I was extremely happy with that.
Ah ok you win :D range has them in at the moment, might pick up a bag or two.




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