<![CDATA[Lump Charcoal]]>I’m just about finished setting up my new Primo XL. Been trying to look for what is the best Lump Charcoal to use and every brand claims they are the best. Any opinions on what to look for? Thanks

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/topic/2393/lump-charcoalRSS for NodeFri, 11 Sep 2026 02:13:15 GMTSun, 07 Jun 2020 17:21:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:00:48 GMT]]>I have been using newspaper for years, but I would just about bet dollars to doughnuts, Double to nothing, that I have snuck some oil (not auto) or bacon grease in there a time or two maybe thinking I could ramp up everyone’s appetite or something. No Problems.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22740https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22740Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:00:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:56:10 GMT]]>Chef said in Lump Charcoal:

Has anyone done this, am I overlooking anything that could be harmful to the grill?

I’ve never done that, but . . .

Tex_77 said in Lump Charcoal:

I’ve also heard of people putting vegetable oil on paper towels and using them to start charcoal.

I do that every single time I’ve lit a fire in my (Weber) chimney for years and years without any trouble at all. Well, actually, I use newspaper, but I don’t know why a paper towel or bacon grease would cause any trouble.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22739https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22739Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:56:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:42:55 GMT]]>Robb
I should have said something after encountering the problem. But didn’t.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22080https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22080Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:42:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 02:59:53 GMT]]>RedJim64
Sorry for you, and that is inappropriate for them. Charcoal is packed at a specific moisture content that they are ruining. Can you be so bold as to tell them?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22076https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22076Mon, 14 Sep 2020 02:59:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:43:52 GMT]]>This. Needs. An. Explanation!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22065https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22065Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:43:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:36:27 GMT]]>calldoctoday It worked pretty good.

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]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22064https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22064Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:36:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:00:35 GMT]]>pr0wlunwoof Whoa, Now that’s Serious!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22042https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22042Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:00:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 10:46:39 GMT]]>calldoctoday I built a chimney from one of those helium tanks you can buy for parties. I found sitting it on my fish fryer burner the most effective way to start it. Now I use either a gas burner inside the fire box of the gravity feed or an electric wand in my kamado. My fatherinlaw still uses a chimney to start his weber. I think he uses a weber chimney also.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22039https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22039Sun, 13 Sep 2020 10:46:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:23:49 GMT]]>RedJim64 Camp Fire Cowboy Style! That was where the old style heavy Iron (like oilfield pipe, probably was or well casing) Academy, no brand came in handy. The new Academy is heavier than the Weber, but not as heavy as the old style. The Weber probably lights faster though, I think it had the cone shaped floor.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22022https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22022Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:23:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:08:01 GMT]]>Years ago I bought a Weber chimney when I was grilling exclusively with Briquets. Always worked well for me and got me weaned from petrol starter fluids. Then… bought a 20 pound bag of Cowboy Lump Charcoal and stuffed a load in the chimney. Heat was so intense I thought the chimney would blow itself apart! It didn’t. But the heat from the lump charcoal altered the steel of the chimney. Each time I use the chimney now (frequently) I see the scars I caused using the lump charcoal.

So today, this, Summer I did my best to build Lump charcoal fires without the chimney. It was like I was cooking the wood, watching moisture surface and bubble & pop. Enough heat to grill hot dogs. But little else. I’m a wiser consumer going forward.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22021https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22021Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:08:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:43:03 GMT]]>I have been just using a chimney starter with just newspaper since a hurricane back in 04 & they were out of lighter fluid & had one chimney left. Remembered a neighbor making his own years earlier, so I thought I would give it a shot. Have used nothing since. Works great, just go through a few of them & have really tried to come up with a better one, but not sure I am there yet. Academy used to have a good one in the old days when they were the real Academy long ago, but the one I ended up with after they changed & built a store here, although not bad, is not the same. Chimneys still work great though. One with a cone shaped expanded metal bottom seems to work best & course they actually work better when they start rusting out.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22019https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22019Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:43:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:33:04 GMT]]>My local ACE Hardware has continually let me down this year. The store does not store it’s lump or charcoal inside. Skids of product outside on a “patio” that has been exposed to the rain we’ve gotten here in abundance in SE Michigan. So waterlogged, it won’t light. Don’t buy charcoal, or briquetes there anymore.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22018https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/22018Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:33:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:07:26 GMT]]>Chef yeah i have done similar by spraying oil on newspaper. I use an electric starter on my kamado, but it does take a little while to get going. As long as your not adding a petroleum based excellerant you should be fine. At least with mine that voids the warranty as the excellerant can’t be absorbed by the ceramic causing it to burn off at high/uneven temps which could result in cracking.

Pretty much anything that heats or cools the ceramic unevenly is bad. Thats why it has the fire bowl to help disperse the heat to the outside ceramic. If the firebox cracks your odds of cracking the outer shell becomes allot higher. Ive managed to do this on the lower end vision grill, but i had documented cracking in the FB weeks after I got it so the warranty claim wasn’t much of an issue.

I’m more mindful with the replacement as I now know its limitations. I like the kamado cookers, but I think their best at grilling and indirect cooking. I havent done much low and slow and I think it would struggle to keep up with a decent vertical smoker. The longer I live the more I come to find that the Swiss army knife marketed types just don’t deliver like advertised.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21990https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21990Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:07:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:55:45 GMT]]>Chef I can see no reason how it would be harmful. It might possible add some additional smells that make you want to eat the grill!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21967https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21967Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:55:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:54:01 GMT]]>Chef No I think you are good, it would be no different then using butcher paper that you had wrapped a brisket or pork shoulder in. I’ve also heard of people putting vegetable oil on paper towels and using them to start charcoal. A lot of the time I will use a propane torch to start the charcoal.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21966https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21966Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:54:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:13:56 GMT]]>Okay guys, yesterday I cooked bacon in a microwave. When I do, I place a paper towel on top. I used that paper towel to start my lump charcoal in my Primo. It started very fast, much more than with other methods. Has anyone done this, am I overlooking anything that could be harmful to the grill?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21964https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21964Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:13:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:47:12 GMT]]>TexLaw Yes, just for the Rita incident alone, you are jarring my current extremely slow memory, I was working at times all the way from Lafayette up to Sam Rayburn if I recall at some point in time. The worst was in Lake Charles or at least the South end as I recall & down into way down into south Calcasieu Parish & across the ferry. But, also pretty bad all the way into Port Arthur & over that way as I seem to recall in my mind. Believe me, I was there. Glad to hear though that Beaumont was left with not so much damage as I am sure it is much larger now for certain that when we were last there or even when I last worked over that way for something.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21154https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21154Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:47:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:31:42 GMT]]>calldoctoday The big difference between Rita and Laura is that Rita mowed down Beaumont and the surrounding area. Laura didn’t do much until you got to Orange County, from what I’ve heard. It’s a small difference by geography, but a huge one when it comes to population and damage. Lake Charles got mowed down by both.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21152https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21152Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:31:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:16:09 GMT]]>TexLaw I am with you on every item. From slightly east of Rita (but still just about same basic area) to those darn Bradford Pears that don’t give you any pears to eat. Speaking of Pears, my son finished his work early today so he & my wife are out picking a load of real Pears that just ripened. Looks like I have more work ahead.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21149https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21149Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:16:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:10:34 GMT]]>calldoctoday It went east of Rita’s path and also looked like it was a smaller storm (just more intense). All my family and friends in the Beaumont/Port Arthur seemed to have come out just fine, as the storm only grazed them (they were expecting worse, but the storm went further east at the last minute). You don’t have to go very far east to start finding significant damage, and it just gets worse from there.

I’m sure things are far more terrible around Lake Charles than what I’ve heard, especially if you go a little south. Much of the good reports I’ve heard from family are a lot of good fortune (such as a tree falling but missing the house).

Reports like those just make you grateful. We had two trees in our yard fall during Ike. One fell across the street but did not hit anyone’s car (not that many folks left them parked there). The other, a large live oak, fell across our front yard and only hit a silly ornamental pear tree that I didn’t like in the first place.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21146https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21146Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:10:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:58:06 GMT]]>TexLaw We are glad to hear that you & your family are all OK. We still know folks in Port Arthur, but they went on over to Ft. Bend County & are all OK. Same basically for folks we still know in the Lake Charles area. Reading the news early this morning, you would think otherwise, but sometimes, that is normal for the news. Keep your fingers crossed & hope all stays that way. It looked to me yesterday late like that thing was going to follow the path or Rita & it just about did. Based on personal or might I say professional experience with that & many others in the area, it would be amazing if things were not a whole lot worse.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21143https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21143Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:58:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:48:03 GMT]]>calldoctoday I’m essentially in southwest Houston. We got a little rain yesterday afternoon, but not enough to show up on the rain gauge near my home. We got a little wind, but nothing I would think twice about if I didn’t know there was a storm out there.

I have a good deal of family and friends around Lake Charles, and I’ve been busy checking in with them through this morning. Reports are good (perhaps I should say “fortunate”) so far. I know plenty got hit badly around there, so I’m grateful.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21140https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21140Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:48:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:14:19 GMT]]>calldoctoday I’m about 50 miles west of Houston, and we got nothing. It’s been so long since we had any rain, my poof well pump has been running 24/7 for weeks.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21120https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21120Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:14:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lump Charcoal on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:59:01 GMT]]>Chef Well Chef, then just make sure you at least invite all of us & don’t forget the Tequila & the Topo Chico too! By the way, isn’t that ##!!%4 storm headed your way or are you far enough to the west of it. We hope you are all OK.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21087https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/21087Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:59:01 GMT