Jealous devil briquettes


 
Mark Foreman

Mark Foreman

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Found JD briquettes at my local HW store.
Anyone have any experience with these? The reason I ask is the local COSTCO doesn’t have Kpro in store but the JD is available. However, at $20 for 20 pounds, I thought I’d seek some of your experiences before purchasing.
 
Amazon and Walmart sells JD lump and both deliver. I'd personally skip the briqs and buy the lump.

JD XL lump is on sale at Walmart (15# sack). And WM does free delivery. That's just $0.98 per# which is very good. Only beat that price once, maybe twice.


But if you want briqs, the price for JD seems quite expensive as the XL is the same price per #.

Call the Costcos near you to see if they have the KPro in stock. I kinda hate the ash that KPro leaves behind when done. JD lump is very clean burning with limited leftover residue.
 
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Can confirm I had Walmart deliver 90 pounds, both briqs and lump on sale.
Free shipping and packed well.
 
Great for low and slow, not great for a hot and fast sear. I'm not sure why but they absolutely could not deliver a decent sear on some steaks I reverse seared a while back. It probably performed the worst of any charcoal I've tried. My guess is that it's because the briqs are so large that the lit surface area of charcoal in a chimney is less than what a lit chimney of smaller briquettes could produce.
 
I just used them in my 18.5 WSM this past weekend. They are great for low and slow.
  • 8:30 am: Started at with full load of JD Briquettes and minion middle using a coffee can and started with Kingsford Professional (they get hot quick like always).
  • 9 am: Put on (2) small pork butts for 7 hours. Temps locked in at 225 - 250 and only needed one small vent adjustment in that 7 hours. Just fantastic. Nice clean smoke.
  • 4pm: pull pork
  • 5 pm: Put on chicken legs for dinner. And that ran at +/- 225 for 1.5 hours (1 vent adjustment), before I tried to raise temps to 300 deg (dry, foiled water pan). I had trouble getting temps up at the end of my chicken cook which isn't unusual for my WSM and my typical B&B orange bag. I had to vent the side door a bit (via turning door upside down) to get 300 and above.
  • 8 pm. Pulled chicken, closed the side door, but was running all vents wide open.
  • 10 pm: Thermometer was still over 275 and there was maybe another hour or so.
Conclusions: 14 hours of low and slow without reloading (our temps were in the mid 80's and high humidity). Likely more as I ramped it up to get hotter via venting for 1.5 hours. I was extremely happy with the cook. Less ash than B&B and I think it was a cleaner burn. The new B&B since they got bought out, isn't as good IMO, and I think I will move to JD for my future LAS cooks.
 
Todd K Wisc said:
I just used them in my 18.5 WSM this past weekend. They are great for low and slow.
  • 8:30 am: Started at with full load of JD Briquettes and minion middle using a coffee can and started with Kingsford Professional (they get hot quick like always).
  • 9 am: Put on (2) small pork butts for 7 hours. Temps locked in at 225 - 250 and only needed one small vent adjustment in that 7 hours. Just fantastic. Nice clean smoke.
  • 4pm: pull pork
  • 5 pm: Put on chicken legs for dinner. And that ran at +/- 225 for 1.5 hours (1 vent adjustment), before I tried to raise temps to 300 deg (dry, foiled water pan). I had trouble getting temps up at the end of my chicken cook which isn't unusual for my WSM and my typical B&B orange bag. I had to vent the side door a bit (via turning door upside down) to get 300 and above.
  • 8 pm. Pulled chicken, closed the side door, but was running all vents wide open.
  • 10 pm: Thermometer was still over 275 and there was maybe another hour or so.
Conclusions: 14 hours of low and slow without reloading (our temps were in the mid 80's and high humidity). Likely more as I ramped it up to get hotter via venting for 1.5 hours. I was extremely happy with the cook. Less ash than B&B and I think it was a cleaner burn. The new B&B since they got bought out, isn't as good IMO, and I think I will move to JD for my future LAS cooks.
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How much residual ash when totally done cooking? KPro was like 30% by weight iirc.
 
I use them and love them, my favorite so far. Using b&b currently, also good but I still prefer jealous devil
 
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