We've talked about what charcoals people like in various dimensions (burn length, etc) and while it's been mentioned in passing, I don't think we've had a post/thread about ash. Soo0...
For a given amount of charcoal, do you all see much variation in the ash left? Does it matter to you? I've used KBB mostly but it does tend to leave a bunch of ash and I wonder if that means I'm getting a charcoal that's lower quality than others that seem to leave less ash.
I don't care that much about cleanup - gotta do it, so... eh. But if the amount of ash remains correlate with quality... how? The nature of the smoke? Burn length? Or do they now correlate with anything?
FWIW I have a bag of Weber on deck. I've been burning Kingsford Hardwood (which makes me ask precisely what KBB is, if not hardwood). And the Hardwood stuff has been pretty nice and seems to leave less ash... but I don't see a significant difference with burn time. If anything, it burns a little faster than KBB.
Thoughts?
I think the big deal ( well it may not be that big of a deal) is clean smoke. If you light up KBB and B&B in a chimney starter next to each other, the KBB will kick out a ton of smoke while you can barely see any smoke coming from B&B. You have to wait a while with KBB to get to clean smoke in a kettle and adjust the vents etc. While B&B, FOGO, JD you can get to clean smoke right away. RO is also pretty smokey as well but I like their natural hardwood product.
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