How many bags of charcoal have you burned so far in 2021?


 
Tim Snyder

Tim Snyder

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I've burned 5 bags, 3 lump and two briquette. That's twice what I've ever used in a whole year and it's only June. Just curious what's an average or who's burned the most.
 
About 3 bags and a bunch of wood chips and chunks. I have 2 new bags and some used coals left. More than probably my whole life as I just got into it back in October. I did have a kettle briefly about 10 years ago and did some ribs but it was too much like work at the time.
 
Oh man I think I may have a problem... I started the year with a few bags of Weber Charcoal but was primarily using Royal Oak's Chef's Select. So I went through 3, 20 lbs. bag of Weber Charcoal, 5, 40 lbs. bags of ROSC and 2, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak lump (and I have a 3rd bag of RO Lump half used in the stockpile). Then I switched to Blue Hog Briquettes and B&B Briquettes a few months ago and have gone through 3, 17 ish lbs. bags of each and am almost done with a forth bag of B&B. I have also used 4, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak All Natural and opened my fifth yesterday. I have also used one whole 30 lbs. bag of B&B logs and just open my my second this past Wednesday (I love those for long WSM 14 cooks).
So doing some rough math I have used about 510 lbs of charcoal so far this year or to answer the question how you asked it about 20 1/2 bags of briquettes and 2 1/2 of lump.
 
Michael Richards said:
Oh man I think I may have a problem... I started the year with a few bags of Weber Charcoal but was primarily using Royal Oak's Chef's Select. So I went through 3, 20 lbs. bag of Weber Charcoal, 5, 40 lbs. bags of ROSC and 2, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak lump (and I have a 3rd bag of RO Lump half used in the stockpile). Then I switched to Blue Hog Briquettes and B&B Briquettes a few months ago and have gone through 3, 17 ish lbs. bags of each and am almost done with a forth bag of B&B. I have also used 4, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak All Natural and opened my fifth yesterday. I have also used one whole 30 lbs. bag of B&B logs and just open my my second this past Wednesday (I love those for long WSM 14 cooks).
So doing some rough math I have used about 510 lbs of charcoal so far this year or to answer the question how you asked it about 20 1/2 bags of briquettes and 2 1/2 of lump.
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I see you don't have a gasser so that accounts for quite a bit. I would say 65% of my outdoor cooks are gas. Also do you re-use coals?
 
Joe Anshien said:
I see you don't have a gasser so that accounts for quite a bit. I would say 65% of my outdoor cooks are gas. Also do you re-use coals?
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I don't have a gasser and I do cook a lot outside! When I was able to get Weber Charcoal (all through last year) on the regular I would always reuse charcoal. That stuff would relight wonderfully. However, I have greatly stopped reusing charcoal since I stopped using Weber because I have found some of the others I buy (the royal oat product) are hardly worth it with the size they end up and none relight in the chimney very well. I also use the cheaper stuff: the Royal Oak All Natural and Chef's Select (that I get for a great price at my local BBQ store) for shorter cooks so I don't feel so compelled have to reuse it because it was not that expensive. The Blue Hog does a good job on a second go, but I have found I use my "second tier" charcoals for longer or more intense cooks so there is not as much left over at the end of most those cooks. If there is charcoal left in the WSM 14 after a longer cook that does get reused.
 
Hard to tell because I’ve been using a mix of fuel but I would guess 4-5 bags total. I have a bag of Embers that I just can’t get through! That stuff is no bueno!
 
Used 16 bags (20# ea) last year, not sure on this year yet. I've been using the Smokefire a lot, originally to make sure that it was working well while it was within the return window, now, because it's just easy and is producing great meals.
 
I’m on about bag #9 probably will be through ten or eleven by the end of the week. Big family party though not as many as in years past. This will be for maybe 20 the big one here was maybe forty five. I’m just as happy to not have that many, I’m getting worn out from doing all this mostly by myself from set up, prep, cooking but, I get a little help with tear down at least. I’m a over prepper, don’t like surprises in the middle of laying out everything.
 
Michael Richards said:
Oh man I think I may have a problem... I started the year with a few bags of Weber Charcoal but was primarily using Royal Oak's Chef's Select. So I went through 3, 20 lbs. bag of Weber Charcoal, 5, 40 lbs. bags of ROSC and 2, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak lump (and I have a 3rd bag of RO Lump half used in the stockpile). Then I switched to Blue Hog Briquettes and B&B Briquettes a few months ago and have gone through 3, 17 ish lbs. bags of each and am almost done with a forth bag of B&B. I have also used 4, 17 ish lbs. bags of Royal Oak All Natural and opened my fifth yesterday. I have also used one whole 30 lbs. bag of B&B logs and just open my my second this past Wednesday (I love those for long WSM 14 cooks).
So doing some rough math I have used about 510 lbs of charcoal so far this year or to answer the question how you asked it about 20 1/2 bags of briquettes and 2 1/2 of lump.
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I see you’re from PA, are you getting the ROCS from Meadow Creek BBQ? They’re about 1 1/2 hours from me, I want to take a trip out there and load up. Where are you getting the B&B logs, haven’t been able to find them anywhere
 
So far (5) 20lb bags of KBB, would've been more but 2 cooks were with Gas then I got the Traveler and cooked 2 more times on it within the last 3 weeks.

Going back to charcoal this weekend is the count continues.
 
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