While wandering around the new HEB, I went down the pellet and charcoal aisle. There was Franklin charcoal briquettes, 100% post oak. I bought a bag, haven’t used it yet. Anyone have experience with it? I’m figuring if I use it, I’ll probably make the Texas Monthly Top 50. Well, maybe not.
Been seeing bags of these in my HEB grocery store but have never tried them. Seems the Franklin merc department is giving his barbecue a run for the money in sales !! Anyway, I have completely run out of Kingsford and grabbed a bag to smoke some meat with this weekend and was suitably impressed. Burned real nice in my SNS, not
Yeah my assumption is someone else is making them and Franklin is putting his name on it too. I’d be curious which firm it would be though. You’d think he’d use FOGO or something like that but who knows if they would let him brand their charcoal.
The Virtual Weber Bullet did a pretty thorough testing of Kingsford Original, B & B and Franklin briquettes. Here’s a link to their testing methods and results.
Kingsford Original charcoal briquets lit faster than Franklin Barbecue charcoal briquets and B&B Competition Oak charcoal briquets. This makes sense because Kingsford made significant changes in briquet design and ingredients in 2006, 2010, and 2015 to make the product light faster.
Kingsford appeared to burn hotter than Franklin and B&B.
B&B burned longer than Franklin and Kingsford.
Franklin produced the least ashes by every measure. B&B produced the most ashes by volume. Kingsford produced the most ashes by weight and as a percentage of the pre-burn briquet weight
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