I have used exactly two bags of B&B lump in the past - a bag of oak, and a bag of hickory. Both of those bags had mostly what I would consider to be medium sized pieces of charcoal - from half the size of a briquette to maybe double the size.
On a recent visit to Academy, all they had was the hickory, so that is what I rolled with. I opened it this morning to do a burn in of my new SNS Kamado, and went to dig into the bag with my charcoal scoop. Clunk. Hitting something, can't get around it!
The top of the bag had a full "log" of charcoal about 15 inches long, and 3-4 inches in diameter! It was the entire width of the top of the 20 pound bag! There are a lot of other big hunks in there too. I had to dig around with my hands to get smaller charcoal for starting the fire with a Royal Oak tumbleweed starter.
I realize lump is not processed the way briquettes are, but you would think there would be a lot more consistency, or some process of chopping pieces of wood down to size before they get converted to charcoal. Very frustrating.
On a recent visit to Academy, all they had was the hickory, so that is what I rolled with. I opened it this morning to do a burn in of my new SNS Kamado, and went to dig into the bag with my charcoal scoop. Clunk. Hitting something, can't get around it!
The top of the bag had a full "log" of charcoal about 15 inches long, and 3-4 inches in diameter! It was the entire width of the top of the 20 pound bag! There are a lot of other big hunks in there too. I had to dig around with my hands to get smaller charcoal for starting the fire with a Royal Oak tumbleweed starter.
I realize lump is not processed the way briquettes are, but you would think there would be a lot more consistency, or some process of chopping pieces of wood down to size before they get converted to charcoal. Very frustrating.
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