This video is about B&B COMPETITION CHAR-LOGS I bought a bag of these at Academy Sports to try out. I can say they are ultra clean burning and I highly recommend them. Let me know what you think. #flyingsmoke #b&b
Great video, thank you! Just wanted to mention something regarding the smoke from your chimney in the beginning of your burn and my experience. The little bit of smoke you had once you started the chimneys was due to the cubes. If you start a chimney of B&B with the tumbleweeds, zero smoke! I figured this out last night when I started with one tumbleweed and needed another and decided to put a cube instead to experiment, oh my god the smoke. With tumbleweeds, clean burn with zero smoke from start to finish. Truly amazing. Thanks again!
I haven't bought starter cubes in years. We use scented parafin wax melts to keep the house smelling nice. When the scent dies off, we soak them up with cotton balls and BAM! you have got yourself a starter ball.
I've been having a hard time getting my fire lit and keeping my fire lit after I drop my chimney over the other logs in my charcoal basket, so I came to RU-vid for some direction and I think your video solved it for me! My chimney is probably half the size of yours and I don't have enough room to get a good amount of logs in there since they are so big to begin with. That in turn makes the few logs I have lit, poured over the charcoal basket not enough to get the fire going effectively! Anyway, great video! You got another sub!
These are all I use for long cooks! I run an 18.5” WSM. I can do a full packer brisket without adding fuel using Harry Soo’s donut. But I get kinda OCD with the way I put it in the charcoal ring. I put an empty chimney on my charcoal grate, and actually stand the logs up inside the charcoal ring around the chimney. I go two layers thick around. Pull the empty chimney out, and stand up any Char Logs that fell over. Then, once my chimney of lit charcoal ashes over, I dump it right in the middle of the donut. Can get an easy 12-15 hours at 225...
That 18 inch was my first smoker. It is a great smoker and puts on bark like nobody’s business! Thanks for taking the time to leave me your comments. It means a great deal.
I have 2 in the edit mode. We lost our French bull dog a month ago then the holidays. I am sorry that I have fallen off. Your comments mean the world to me!
i bought a bag yesterday. loaded to chimneys and that's all i needed for a whole chicken. Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation. No more Royal Oak. Got tired of pebbles after two hand fulls and end up throwing the bag away.
I like these charcoal reviews. I use this on occasion when I find it. Personally when I go hot and/or use my grillgrates, I never get the charcoal fully lit. The way I figure, the grill and grates have to preheat as well Once I have flames out the top, I dump and arrange my grates. Close or crack the lid, come back and take the temp. The hottest I’ve gotten was with B&b hickory lump. My infrared registered my grillgrates at 963 for the highest. And the grill wasn’t even full.
Great video. I came back to this video after coming across the char-logs at my local Ace Hardware. I am going to pick up a few more bags this week. I hear what you are saying about the kings Ford and the smoke. I smoked out my neighbors yesterday.
Great video, I’ve saw these at my Academy but had never tried, after watching this may give them a try. Thanks for the review and hopefully we’ll get to meet in Ft. Worth.
saw your jealous devil review and wondered if you had a review for the char-logs b/c I just picked up a bag last week and here we are lol. very nice review! and now i am super excited to try them on my next cook. liked and subscribed!
I have used the Briquettes and the Char-Logs. I stopped using the lump because I was always too many different size pieces in my bags, and I would get scrap or something almost like a paper or straw texture in my bags. I'm in Memphis too. Sometimes you just have to smoke in that heat
Love this video I am a B&B fan usually use their lump charcoal. Was wondering if you did a head to head with the B&B char logs against the B&B competition oak briquettes?
Just finished the burn-in on a new kamado style grill using these and they are perfect for this type of grill. Now they no longer have them at Academy. Can’t find them anywhere in NC.
Great video, your a trooper! Doing a charcoal comparison in that heat! Well I appreciate it. Never used B&B anything before mainly because it's not sold around here. I'm going to order a bag of the logs and a bag of briquettes to try out from Ace Hardware, they ship to my local store for free. Just bought a pair of those long Welders gloves from Amazon (thanks for the tip). The hair on my arms is starting to grow back. LOL.
Mike F I won’t get around charcoal with out them! And thank you for taking the time to comment. It means so much to us... so much so I’ll give you another tip: There is another type of glove I use too. They are Kevlar gloves... they are sold by BBQ dragon, but others have them too. Those gloves are rated at 900+ degrees.... BUT... they must stay dry. If they get wet, the heat goes right thru them. I guess I should do a glove video!
Do you think this charcoal would be better for using in a smoker than regular lump or briquettes if I was trying to get a less Smokey flavor in a long cook?
FLYING SMOKE thank you for the speedy response! I am most excited! If my local ace hardware doesn’t have it in stock I am going to have them order a bag for me!
Now that is a great question! First time I’ve been asked. If you watch the red “dots” on the grates you will have the answer. I use a Thermoworks IR gun that uses 5 or 6 laser points to get an average temperature. To me this is the best way to do it.
I can see this charcoal being a real asset in the WSM. Once dialed in, I'd think the temps and burn time could be repeatable and predictable. If anything, it would greatly narrow the gap with the WSM's wild temp swings most of us experience. This may also solve the excessively bitter white smoke water smokers are notoriously known to produce throughout a cook.
I agree. I just shot another video today using B&B Char-Logs and they were ready at 28 minutes. It is the log like shapes that made the difference. Thanks for watching!
I was disappointed when you filled both chimneys with the char logs. I was hoping you would compare the char logs with B&B's charcoal briquets. Your videos have convinced me that B&B is the way to go, but I'm still confused over which to use for low and slow cooking, the char logs or the briquets.
I am sorry, I tried to just show what they are. For long cooks I use the char logs. Then I add the wood chips i chose for flavor. They empart almost no charcoal taste so that’s a plus, and they burn a long time
@@FLYINGSMOKE that's a good trick too. I also do the same when I don't have any newspaper. Seems like it took a long while to get those going with the lighter cubes.
Picked up a bag today. No instant gratification for B&B in my area but ACE Hardware carries them and will deliver to any ACE store for free. ACE has a 15% off anything in the store about once every 6 weeks so the price is better. Hanging a chicken and rack of ribs on Sunday in the WSM and will use them.
I grabbed a bag of these, they're good for times when I want to increase the temperature of the briquets (not B&B obviously) since I'm done with lump charcoal.
@@g2skinny I'm tired of little pieces of lump charcoal all over the back yard I do a lot of walking back and forth with my chimney starter and I don't like worrying about the lump coal sparking an ember right in my eye.
Because I’m not cooking low and slow. This is hot and fast. I need even heat and while you can dump much sooner, you get cold spots and bad grill marks. But you can do what works for you.
So, tubular briquettes? Got it, lump is still better, lump ingredients (for anything but Royal Oak ‘lump’) carbonized wood chunks, nothing else Briquettes/tubes? Compressed sawdust and binders, and other unknown garbage. Lump for me, thanks.
