Grilling With Charcoal?
I'm new at grilling with charcoal. Whenever I get done grilling, do I discard all of the used briquettes? Or do I only dispose of the ash around them? Thanks!
I'm new at grilling with charcoal. Whenever I get done grilling, do I discard all of the used briquettes? Or do I only dispose of the ash around them? Thanks!
Proud_Military_Wife
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try using natural charcoal instead of briquettes, no need for fluid just a propane or kitchen torch and you can reuse any sizable chunks that ae half burnt...
Doc Hudson
It really depends on the type grill you have.
If you have a grill with a cover, when finished, close the dampers, and close the lid. Next time you want to use the grill, pull the old charcoal out and put it in your starter chimney, add as much new charcoal as you need, start the fire, cook and repeat.
However, if the charcoal briquettes feel damp or spongy when you start to reuse them, go a head and toss them out.
Dump the ash as needed while the charcoal is starting in your charcoal chimney.
Doc
char__c is a good cooker
NO! That is bull it will relight!!! Do not throw them away unless you are a frivolous, wasteful and very rich person who doesn't mind spending unnecessary money!!!!!! If you close the lid and close all the holes it will shut the air off and the fire will go out. Next time add more new charcoal to the half burned coals, scoop it into a tall pile, put fluid on it all, let it set for 5 min. squirt again and relight. I put some wood kindlings under it all to help it burn and give it flavor too. Charcoal is to high to waste like that!!!! But you must keep the grill dry out of the weather. So water does not seep inside and wet the charcoal. We never discard them till they are used a couple times and completely gone. That's like burning wood in the winter, it is expensive and you don't throw it out if it goes out you relight it!!!!!!
Reuse
Letting the coals burn after you’ve finished cooking is “like leaving the faucet going,” according to Tom Mahowald, Nature’s Grilling Products’ director of sustainability. After the last burger’s off the rack, closes the grill and shutter the vent to kill the fire quickly. Next time you’re ready to barbeque, you’ll be able to reuse the charcoal.
One of these is very helpful: http://media.dwellmag.com/images/bbq-starter-chimney-lg.jpg
drinkard
i love charcoal grills, yet I have a gasoline grill. maximum grill afficianados like charcoal, yet agree it really is extra reachable to regulate temperature with gasoline. also, there is not a huge mess of ash to regulate. flavor contained in the foodstuff continues to be similar. the acceptable answer would were written by ability of the man who wrote, "charcoal yet we use gasoline." That sums it up in a nutshell.
mcurtisisme
dispose all the briquettes