Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
A related note on charcoal:
Recently I got a bag of hardwood charcoal from Whole Foods to use in the little portable Weber we still have. I'm the FIRST one to call bullshit when the hippy-brand variety of some staple product doesn't work well enough (recycled plastic toothbrushes, for example) but this charcoal has been amazing.
- It's chunks of hardwood, can't tell what species anymore but they're not reconstituted sawdust.
- It weighs less than regular briquets.
- I lights 1,000,000 times easier than briquets... I have yet to need anything more than a small brown paper bag, torn and crumpled, and 1 single match. No chimney lighter, no fluid, nada.
- It burns longer than briquets. I don't even fill that little grill, and I cook 2 times minimum on it by just clamping down the air holes when the food's done and letting it go out. Next time I use it, I just toss a couple more pieces in there, and it all lights up.
- IT DOESN'T TASTE LIKE LIGHTER FLUID. Can't explain how much nicer that is. No petroleum smells, no nothin'.
Again, not to preach the hippy or anything, but that is a vastly superior product for you non-gas folks out there. I give a fuck if it makes mother earth happy. Shit works.
Hardwood charcoal is where it is at. I never use brisquets anymore.
I need to get on some hardwood charcoal for my grill. Too bad there isn't a Whole Foods in this area yet. Where do you get yours, kfish?
