Weber Briquettes

[RichBrew]

Has anyone else noticed that Weber now has their own briquettes? Has anyone tried them?

https://product.weber.com/briquettes/

Scott

[Huskee]

$25/ 20lb bag. Yowzers.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/weber-launches-charcoal-briquettes-big-143000675.html

[Mr. Bones]

Huskee mebbe it has their "Lifetime Guarantee"??? :-)))

[DWCowles]

Nope, not for that price

[RonB]

I love Weber products and their great customer service, but I'm not spending that kind of $$ for charcoal. I buy a bunch when it's on sale at Lowes or Home Depot. Unless Weber can come close to that price, I'm not buying...

[emil.glatz]

<rant>I think Weber, like most every company, is struggling to expand market. Weber's key, if I was an executive there, would be to integrate horizontally: partner with AR and provide training on how to use their product; build a partnerships with renown grill artists; and I can understand their expansion into probes, brisket, etc., but that's too widget focused. Dear Weber, get into services! A grill is only as good as the operator.</rant>

[Histrix]

I'll certainly give them a try when they are available in my area. No binders and filler means less ash so it will be interesting to see how they compare to lump in that regard. There is also a lot to be said for consistency in size of fuel.

The MSRP may be $24.99 but who knows what the street price will be. Even at MSRP it compares to some of the better brands of lump.

[SMOG MAN]

That's exactly what I thought

[JeffJ]

If it burns really hot and really slow perhaps fewer coals are required for ample heat? If they burn hotter perhaps they provide better sear? Less ash is always a good thing. This is all musing on my part. All I can say is at that price each briquette better be something special.

[Lowjiber]

At twenty-five bucks a bag, I should be able to just lay a pork butt on top of the bag and have it be cooked to perfection in thirty minutes.

[Catmandu]

Maybe I'd try them if they advertised it as "The last bag of charcoal you'll ever need - they're reusable!"

[Nate]

Anxious to see what deals actually pop up in retail locations like when KBB goes on sale a couple times a year.

also anxious to see what the ash amount is as well as how they burn... The price difference starts to demenish rapidly if it is a longer lasting better burning product.

Kind of of gets me sometimes (and I catch myself doing the same) that we will spend all kinds of money on smokers, accessories, thermometers, enhancements like a guru or SnS, and then slap on an expensive SNF piece of meat but then want the cheapest fuel source to make the whole thing actually happen.

[Huskee]

I think they'll sell enough to be around long term. There are some who think Kingsford is too average and want the bigger & better and will pay for it, whether it's legit or psychological. I think some of that cost is the plastic resealable bag too. That itself probably costs 5x the cost of the 3-ply paper of Kingsford bags to manufacture. I leave my bags covered or indoors so that's not a selling point to me....but there are plenty of times when I forget and my open bag stays outside, in the rain & snow. I've started placing my open Kford bags in garbage bags for that reason.

[tbob4]

The seal will not protect the bag from my dogs. I have a shed for my BBQ equipment and charcoal. When I leave the charcoal out the dogs act like its a bag of dog treats. I get in trouble, not the dogs.

[Atalanta]

Years ago I bought a heavy duty rubbermaid trash can with locking lid to store my open bag of charcoal. Keeps out rain and snow.

[Craigar]

$19.99 at Lowe's. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Weber-20-Po...tes/1000156169

[Meathead]

We will be testing them.

[Craigar]

We wouldn't expect any less.

[Noverini]

Any tests yet?

[Craigar]

I bought a bag last weekend and went to use them Tuesday and I couldn't get the cotton pickin' bag open. Being that I was in a hurry I went with the old KBB. I am hoping to test them out this weekend for the Daytona 500.

[Mosca]

KBB is okay, but my experience is that it can give off chemical flavors if you don't let it get hot enough before putting the cook on. When Stubbs went on sale at the end of last year I bought 4 bags, and I love it. It's a better product for me than the KBB. (But I'm still going to use up my KBB.)

I'm thinking the appearance of this product is directly related to the Summit Charcoal. It must have something to do with optimizing results. Weber have been making charcoal grills for 60 years or so, and for whatever reason have never seen fit to make their own fuel. I'll be interested to see the results, particularly in the Summit Charcoal.

[Lowjiber]

I'm a KBB fan, but when Lowe's had Stubbs on sale for $4 a bag last fall, I bought ten of 'em. Frankly, I can't tell the difference. I still have four bags left.

When they go on sale again, I'll likely buy a couple of dozen bags.

[kjozsa]

As KBB's not available at all in Europe (not around here at least), we've been using Weber briqs all the time (the previous one earlier and this new one which just got introduced some months ago). They go for about $18 for a bag of 18 lbs here and they are much better than other noname "brands" sold in the country.

Weber briqs considered as the mainline, I must say I'm not a fan of cooking over briquettes at all. We have quality sources of lump here which burn much much cleaner than briqs, have basically no smoke even at lightning time (!) and have a really pleasant smell on their own. Compared to this, these new Weber briquettes are really stinky and the food is tasting clearly different too.

I absolutely understand the points about lump burning inconsistenly but I plain see it as a tradeoff. At the end of the day I still much prefer lumps over briquettes for high heat grilling and I'll try to use them for low and slow also with an SnS Plus. Actually the ability to do slow cooking over lump was the primary reason I ordered one.. we'll see how it goes!