Check out what @SacramentoWeber found sticking out of one of his Weber Briquettes.
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I caught it in the top of the chimney. It was pressed into a briquette with about 3/4 of the sharp end sticking out. Luckily the mail I was grilling up still turned out great.
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You should have seen the shit that used to roll out of cowboy bags...baling twine, unpyrolized plywood, a flip phone and so on...
They probably use scrap pallets to make the charcoal. I know I see some awfully pallet looking chunks in the RO lump. Never found nails, but there is always little chunks of clay left after the coal burns up. I never see them before the cook th
Pallet pieces even in the lump? Wow!
I've heard that at times charcoal companies will go and clear out fallen trees and wood after a storm. Do you think they're "carefully selecting" only the highest quality straight grained hardwood for fuel?
Time to get a stick burner for low + slow and start using wood (Santa Maria style) in my Weber. 🤣
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I found a strip of hardwood flooring in my Cowboy lump that was stained and had a sealed finish (polyurethane?). I stopped buying it after that. I haven't found anything in Kingsford blue, Green Egg lump or Jealous Devil yet.
I would be pissed if I found finished wood! We should really be making our own charcoal.
So far the worst that I've found in Weber briquettes have been the odd Royal Oak briquette that I started a thread about a year ago asking if they were the OEM for Weber. I set up the WSM to do ribs today and for the first time in ages, I came across Royal Oak briquettes. Two of them turned up so I set them aside to use when I open up another bag of RO briquettes.