What kind of lump charcoal do you use and what do you pay?

[Attjack]

Also. anyone get it by mail, like from Amazon, and if so is it all broken up to dust by the time you get it?

[lonnie mac]

I get fresh B$B here in town... Honestly haven't paid attention to price but I will look next time. LOVE my B$B!

[Spinaker]

Yeah Lonnie! I am with you brother!

[Attjack]

I am officially out of lump as of tonight. I had bought some 20lb Royal Oak bags for $10 IIRC. In retrospect, I realize should have bought more.

[Attjack]

For the record I realize now that I had bought 15lb bags.

[smn1285]

I ordered the Fogo brand from Amazon 5 or 6 times, 35lb bag for $50-56 is the best I’ve seen it priced. I really like that stuff. I haven’t ordered it in a while tho (primarily PBC and KBB now), but from what I remember it was primarily large chunks and I don’t remember being disappointed with it being all broken up.

[Keiferr]

I use Royal Oak for about $10 a bag .Occasionally use FOGO for really good cooks, and it shows up in good shape .

[Attjack]

RO from Amazon?

[Keiferr]

Attjack, I get RO from Home Depot.

[Attjack]

I think I'll stop by there today.

[Spinaker]

I use B&B. I love that stuff. It works great, burns forever and you get a nice range of pieces. I honestly don't know what I pay. I buy 10 bags at a time, or as much as they have in the store so I don't have to go back for a while. They only sell it at Wal-Mart in the TC, and I hate Wal-Mart, so I buy as much as I can at a time to avoid having to go back.)

I use FOGO too, and I think its the best stuff on the market, but it is pricey. About $50 for a 20 lb bag. If I remember correctly.

I used Rockwood for a while, but I think their quality has dropped and its no where near as good as B&B. IMHO.

[Craigar]

I swung by my local Ace Hardware store on the way home from work last night and picked up a bag of B&B to try out this weekend. I always forget about that place stocking BBQ MCS items.

[Spinaker]

I think you will like it! Craigar

[Craigar]

Spinaker the hardware store? Yeah, it might be a weekly stop. Ha! No, I'm sure I will like it. I haven't been steered wrong by The Pit in the past, so I'm sure I will like this brand. I'm just happy to have it available locally. I might have to see if I can talk them into stocking the B&B briquettes Jerod Broussard talks so highly about.

[WVsmoke]

Royal Oaks, 15# bag, $10 at Walmart (No sale it is their everyday price.)

[raven]

B&B 20 lb bag lump. I get it from Academy sports it's about $15. Never had an issue with it at all but it is all I have used.

[fuzzydaddy]

Academy currently has B&B lump on sale.

[Attjack]

Looks like a hell of a deal. Wish I could find that.

[raven]

Attjack Ace hardware stores carry them as well

[JeffJ]

Walmart had Western lump on clearance late summer - $6 for a 35 pound bag. Needless to say, I snatched up several bags. It burns pretty well but I have some gripes. It has a big variance on the size of the pieces with a bunch of tiny pieces at the bottom of the bag. But that's been the case for other more expensive bags of lump I've used in the past, so not a big deal. The biggest gripe is trying to handle a 35 pound bag especially when pouring into my small chimney. It's not the weight that's the problem, it's the size of the bag itself. It's hard to see what you are doing with a bag that big. Early this spring I dropped $25 on a 20 pound bag of Kamado Joe lump. I've used half of the bag and it's the best lump I've used yet. I save it for special occasions.

[Attjack]

Agree on bag size. I keep my open charcoal in a galvanized trash can so I need to be able to fit a bag of lump and a bag of briquettes in there. 35lbs would be too big.

[Fire Art]

I got some Rockwood I’m trying right now. this is never to be bought Again list but the bag was cool

[CandySueQ]

It's cheap and not sparky, so I use Brookshires Lump Charcoal from my local grocer. I really, really miss Ozark Oak.

Got some B&B oak briquettes I've been meaning to try. I really like the Kingsford Cherrywood briquettes in my Jumbo Joe.

[rwalters]

My preference is FOGO. I buy directly from their site. I buy the black bags for my kettle. Mostly smaller to medium sized pieces. Absolutely love their lump charcoal. With that said, it’s hard to pass up Royal Oak at Home Depot. Not a bad product and the pricing sure does beat FOGO. With that said, the FOGO definitely burns longer than the RO. Sometimes I wonder if the FOGO is actually a better deal than RO because of how many times I can snuff out the fire and reuse the pieces. At the moment, in my garage, the only lump I have on hand is FOGO

[allsid]

My go-to preference Attjack is FOGO. I have ordered it on Amazon and my only issue is excessive packaging (cardboard) but that is what you get ordering charcoal. I also met Jealous Devil charcoal at a trade show and they sent me a bag. I just recently finished it and realized how much I like it. The difference IMHO about mail order -vs- retail is time and time again charcoal purchased at retail has the broken and smaller pieces with a significant amount of dust making at times 30% of the bag useless. We had a discount code for Jealous Devil this summer but so few people took advantage of it, I did not think it was relevant to ask them for another.

[Craigar]

I'm sorry I missed the offer earlier this summer. If there should be another code in the future, I will be sure to use it.

[allsid]

Noted Craigar thanks!

[Attjack]

Looks like it's going to be Royal Oak for me. But maybe I'll get a bag of B&B to compare.

ACE
B&B 20 lb. - $17
Cowboy 20 lb. - $16
Royal Oak - 8.8 lb. $10

Home Depot
Royal Oak 15.44 lb - $13

[Attjack]

Yeah, that's why I'll give B&B a try too. At some point I'll try a higher end brand too. Really the only thing I don't like about RO is the sparks.

[jfmorris]

Is that Royal Oak lump or briquettes? I’ve been getting the RO briquettes at Lowe’s as it’s half the price of Home Depot, and they are right next door to each other here.

[Attjack]

jfmorris Lump. I still have a half pallet of Kingsford Pro Briquettes. The lump if for my kamado and veggie grill. I should have checked lowes though. Maybe I'll take a peek now just to see.