I thought I'd make a post showing the capacity of the 2 Weber charcoal chimneys in pictures. Hopefully this will give you a visual and save you the need to count briquettes.
Here's a side by side of them for comparison purposes.
This pictorial used standard Kingsford Original briquettes
Large (regular) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, right side up.
This is dropping the briquettes in by twos
20 briquettes:
40 briquettes (between top 2 holes, roughly):
60 briquettes (holes buried):
80 briquettes:
100 briquettes (full but not heaping):
And below is dumping the bag straight in until it looked the same fullness as above, then counting how many there were. I thought dumping them in all at once might lead to less in there since they'd fall in all odd placements. As chance has it there were exactly 100 full briquettes and some small pieces!
Large (regular) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, upside down. Using the chimney upside down is helpful for smaller loads, plus a lighter cube will fit right in the concave grates nicely.
20 briquettes:
40 briquettes:
Compact (small) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, right side up.
10briquettes:
20 briquettes:
30 briquettes (near top of holes, roughly):
40 briquettes (full but not heaping):
Compact (small) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, upside down.
20 briquettes (full, slightly heaped):
Here's a side by side of them for comparison purposes.
This pictorial used standard Kingsford Original briquettes
Large (regular) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, right side up.
This is dropping the briquettes in by twos
20 briquettes:
40 briquettes (between top 2 holes, roughly):
60 briquettes (holes buried):
80 briquettes:
100 briquettes (full but not heaping):
And below is dumping the bag straight in until it looked the same fullness as above, then counting how many there were. I thought dumping them in all at once might lead to less in there since they'd fall in all odd placements. As chance has it there were exactly 100 full briquettes and some small pieces!
Large (regular) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, upside down. Using the chimney upside down is helpful for smaller loads, plus a lighter cube will fit right in the concave grates nicely.
20 briquettes:
40 briquettes:
Compact (small) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, right side up.
10briquettes:
20 briquettes:
30 briquettes (near top of holes, roughly):
40 briquettes (full but not heaping):
Compact (small) Weber Rapid Fire Chimney, upside down.
20 briquettes (full, slightly heaped):
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