Free shipping on AFire Coconut Charcoal

[mike.stavlund]

It took me awhile to see the free shipping offer, too.  I thought Duke was taking us for a ride at first!  ;-)

[Duke]

looks nice

please use it soon and report back

want to blog it on the frontpage?

I could do that. Let me pick up some ahi in the next few days and I will take some pictures.

[cbpeck]

I went ahead and ordered 3, no 2, no 4... ok 2 boxes to give it a shot. 

[Brickout]

FYI, this deal is back. http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/afire-koko-coconut-charcoal/

[G$]

Funny you should bump this, brick.

I ordered some last week.  Fired it up last night to cook some sausage and chicken breast. 

I am going to do a full scale review and compare at a later time but, briefly:

My take:

It works.
No strange smells.
They seem to crumble easy and I am not sure about re-usability.
A tad stubborn to light but not bad.  I used a parafin cube in a stacked circle of the kokos and it lit fine, just took a while.
I was cooking in the big 26 and did not use very much but it struggled  to throw enough heat for the job.  I used maybe half a package. 

In my opinion for this price everyone should try it just  for grins at least.

[swamprb]

I clicked the link and it was $3.99 a box with 10% discount on orders over $49 + free shipping. Not a bad deal.

I'd try some but I'm flush with 22lb boxes of Charcos Coconut Briquettes.

[Red Kettle Rich]

What was the deal on the Charcos?

[swamprb]

What was the deal on the Charcos?

Part of a group buy on a pallet of Charcos.

[jeffinsgf]

Well, I ran across the William-Sonoma 3.99 deal last week, just before a trip to KC. I bought a box, just to see. I took the box at its word and built a fire with 12 briquettes...according to them enough to cook for two. What a joke. After 5 minutes over that fire my burgers were just barely brown (more like gray). Unless I'm missing something, there's no magic in coconut briquettes.

I may try them on their own again, using what I feel would be a normal fire load  More likely though, I'll mix it in with my standard Ozark Oak lump, until it is gone.

[dazzo]

They didn't work out all that well for me either...

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/interesting-kettle-not-a-weber/msg116631/#msg116631

Although the price is right if you want to try them for yourself. They have a "SUMMER" code that may work for another 10 or 20% off too, but didn't try it.

[1buckie]

Pretty fuzzy (not warm & fuzzy) review from Naked Whiz:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag93.htm

For a real inexpensive deal, I can work with just about anything, though......as long as it's not like what the Whiz says about coconut in general:
"Bad coconut charcoal smells like a bad cigar."

This stuff rocks, but at over a dollar a pound, it had better:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag81.htm

[jeffinsgf]

At 3.99 clearance the KOKO is just slightly under $1 per pound. I'll stick to Ozark Oak at <70 cents.

[G$]

Pretty fuzzy (not warm & fuzzy) review from Naked Whiz:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag93.htm

For a real inexpensive deal, I can work with just about anything, though......as long as it's not like what the Whiz says about coconut in general:
"Bad coconut charcoal smells like a bad cigar."

This stuff rocks, but at over a dollar a pound, it had better:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag81.htm

FWIW, regarding the nakedwhiz review and my actual experience:
1) The package seemed to weigh MORE than what is was labeled and there was no 'filler' piece in the box like they described in their review.
2) I definitely did not smell cigar.

As stated above, a more detailed write up is forth coming!

[1buckie]

That's good....some of their reviews are pretty old & people do improve their products often enough....
I still have a lot of reg lump but have been interested in this stuff.....look forward to your findings....

[swamprb]

This is why I went with the Charcos!

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag96.htm