Charcoal Consumption....just curious

[Paul Morrison]

I use about two bags a month between my BGE and Engelbrecht Cooker. I've been cooking ~2.5 week on one of the cookers. Anything from hamburgers to 16 hour brisket cooks.

[ssandy_561]

I use about 2 18.6 bags of Kingsford blue bag a month. If it is not raining I am cooking on the grill. I usually just grill during the week and BBQ on the weekends. I also reuse as much charcoal as I can when I am grilling.

[BGWolf]

Between 1-3 bags a month on my XL BGE

[ecowper]

Obi-Dan for a typical cook of burgers, chicken breasts or steak on the Hasty-Bake, I need a full chimney, which is 80 briquettes or about 4.5 lbs. An 18.6 lb bag of Kingsford has four chimneys worth of charcoal in it, give or take. I typically do that sort of cook 2x weekly. So the 2 pack of Kingsford Professional that I buy at Costco takes care of a month worth of that sort of grilling, usually.

Then I do 2-3 long, low and slow cooks per month, especially in the summer. Those require 1/2 to a full bag of charcoal typically. I've been using KBB for those cooks, but David Parrish has me convinced to try Professional for those, too.

This has been pretty typical usage for me now for about 2 years or so. My wife has gotten used to picking up the 2 bag pack of Professional at Costco every time she goes :-)

[Obi-Dan]

The PBC uses about 8 lbs per cook. I use that once a month. I will grill on my Weber Kettle 2 other weekends but I can often use a half chimney plus whatever coals I have snuffed and left in there. My wife had a heart attack when I showed up with 5 two-packs from HD during their Memorial Day sale.

[ecowper]

those 5 2 packs should last you a long time, though. And the Memorial Day sale means you got 'em cheap

[Breadhead]

It totally depends on how much bread and pizza I'm baking on the BGE. Those cooks are at 500° up to 800°. You burn massive amounts of lump at those temperatures. When cooking lots of those items I can use 80 pounds of lump in a months time, easily.

With 1 load of lump I can smoke a brisket for 16 hours and have lump leftover. With that same load of lump I can barely bake 3 Neapolitan pizzas at 800°.

If I'm in a bread & pizza frenzy I could burn a 1000 pounds of lump in a year.😆

[Spinaker]

I would say for me. About a 30 lb. bag of lump every other month. I only use lump in my Keg. I use Kingsford in the PBC, but I haven't run that baby in months. But when I was, I'd say a few bags of Blue an white a month.

[Chiefsilverback]

I've been using the Kingsford 100% natural briquets for the last couple of weeks and I have a feeling they may be a little smaller than regular KBB?

Here's 80 briquets in a Weber chimney:


And here's 100:

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[Huskee]

I've found with KBB if I load the chimney by hand, counting the briquets, I can fit 90 easy or 100 with careful placement. If I dump them fast out of the bag 80-85 wants to fill the chimney for the most part. If you just counted them out and placed each one I'd say you're right on par.

[Kpaxfaq]

I'm guessing I use about 10 Double packs of KBB a year. I buy them all when they are half off a couple times a year.

[David Parrish]

I used a bag and a half just this weekend.

#eatingoodintheneighborhood

[ecowper]

That was me last weekend. This weekend I was off taking my kid back to college (sophomore year), so charcoal usage was pretty light.