FOGO 17.6-POUND PREMIUM HARDWOOD LUMP CHARCOAL BLACK BAG

Nice charcoal

I only grill over hardwood charcoal and happened to run out of my store-bought brand early in the pandemic, so I explored what I could get online. After a lot of investigation on settled on this brand, and I have been pleased with it. It costs more than I would have paid for the store-bought kind, but it is a big heavy bag, and it came well-packaged in a custom external cardboard box (so I'm continuing to store the bag in the box for now).The charcoal lumps are very nice clean pieces of varying sizes, some quite large. I always light charcoal using the chimney method and usually it takes a while for the fire to get going, but I've noticed that this charcoal seems to light in less than half the time compared to what I'm used to. It burns well and seems to last for a long time, because I've been able to close the grill and save the half-burned charcoal to re-use for next time (probably because the pieces are so large to start with). So I think it is justifiably to call this "premium" charcoal (who knew there was such a thing?) and I'm tempted to stick with it rather than go back to the cheaper but less effective kind I used to use.

Great for low cooking in a smoker, provides a great balance of sweet somke and proper heat. Somewhat irregular in size requiring some care, a perfect product for a proper coal bead and Great for use with wood chips

I'll never go back to briquettes. Lump charcoal is just superior in every way.Fogo burns clean and without adding much smoke flavor. Comparing it to the Kiawe Hawaii lump charcoal which I have been using, the Fogo lights faster and even, has even less ash, burns longer and the temp seems easier to regulate. Fogo lasts long enough to cook your food, eat, then let the kids make smores with the embers. Excellent.Kiawe, mesquite, and other lump charcoal add various degrees of flavor and smokiness which is definitely not a bad thing. Fogo is a more neutral lump charcoal.

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