Weber Briquettes: Nailed It!!!

[Mike in Roseville]

Check out what @SacramentoWeber found sticking out of one of his Weber Briquettes.






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[SacramentoWeber]

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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[Hell Fire Grill]

You should have seen the shit that used to roll out of cowboy bags...baling twine, unpyrolized plywood, a flip phone and so on...

[Walchit]

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

[Mike in Roseville]

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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[CurtP]

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.

[Walchit]

I would be pissed if I found finished wood! We should really be making our own charcoal.

[Lightning]

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.