Stubb's All-Natural vs. Kingsford Competition Briquettes 

Nice intro jam. Brings back memories

Stubb's BBQ in Texas is owned by an African-American family and that picture on the bag I believe is of the gentleman who started the bbq pit. Even in Texas, people compare their bbq to Stubbs, Snow, and Franklin. Their food is legendary.

Great test, beautiful family!

Great Video, Your a blessed man, Beautiful little Princesses.

The enthusiasm of your "sidekicks" is cute. Good job dad.

Stubb's is the best I will not stop cooking with them and using his sauce...

I love the Stubb's, I just tried it and love it. And your kids are adorable.

Nice vid! I like Stubbs better than anything.

I'm from just outside of Chicago and I am just getting the chance to use Stubbs. I usually use Kingsford and never heard of Stubbs til my brother from Georgia brought me a bag. Think i'm gonna enjoy using Stubbs now i gotta figure out where to get it lol. Thanx for the video buddy

Great comparison, your daughters are a riot. I've always used lump. I have a Treager and a Weber master touch, I will find some Stubbs to try a low and slow in my weber kettle.

very cute kids .....great test going with Stubbs all the way

I just picked up a bag of Stubbs in (believe it or not) Mindanao, Philippines. I went to RU-vid to find a review and yours was great and your little "Squealers" are adorable!

Stubbs rocks! Great product! Good mom/pop kind of Company! American family lineage of quality, tradition and poring love into their work! AND IT SHOWS in the results when you want to crank up the smoker. All the best reasons to support this product. Wild oak is also great!

that was a cool review man and your daughters cracked me up. pretty little ladies. i have tried all types, but the problem i have with lump, with the brands here in southern Illinois, is there is so much waste as in unusable, too small, basically dust in the bag. a 20 lb. bag may be $13 or so but you might have a few lbs. of unusable product. that adds up with as much as we grill. the briquettes sure do produce alot more ash making for more clean up. i'll try that stubbs again. its been quite a while. thx for the informational review. just subbed and apologize for the long winded comment. -Travis

Stubs also makes a good Sauce too. Mr. stubs was on the Late show years ago. check it out when you get the time.

Epic intro

Yep, CharGriller all the way. Bout time for me to upgrade, but convincing the wife that I need to after I turn some pretty good stuff out is hard to do!

too cute,,,

I know that with Lump Charcoal when it is heating up it will pop and spark small embers I didn't see that effect from the K Comp Briquettes which leads me to believe that the K briquettes may be more charcoal with fewer fillers vs 100% lump charcoal like Royal Oak. Stubbs briquettes look to burn longer and hold up better. I've never really been a kingsford fan at all... just got it because it was on sale

Stubb's is the way to go if you are using the WSM or Kettle but nothing is more natural than Lump Wood. If you can control the temperature a mixture of briquettes and Lump (Royal Oak or other smaller lump) is the way to go to get the fullest possible flavor. Enjoyed the Great Review #BBQCrasher

I went to Costco and they had a sale one the Competition. $16.00 for a 2 pack at 18 lbs a bag. I bought 6 packs in total so I would have coal for the rest of the year. I want to do a small cook on the mini just to see how they would do and on the start up was tons of smoke. I thought there was a forest fire! It was so ridiculous. I was upset I bought so much. I thought, "No wonder it was on sale.". I'm going to buy another brand, mix it in doing a 50/50 and see how it goes.

I'm not a hippie when it comes to charcoal. I use alot of brands. Good review though

Unfortunately, Ozark Oak went out of business not long ago. :( If I use lump, I get it from a place called Helping U Barbeque here locally. Otherwise, it's Stubbs.

There is a youtube clip of Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield on the David Letterman show from 1991. His picture is on the charcoal for marketing similar to Col. Sanders being on KFC chicken even though he had little to do with it's modern form.

The problem with Kingsford is they mix limestone in with their charcoal. They do this so that it will burn longer and more evenly but you essentially get screwed on how much overall heat you get out of them and then there's that mess of "ash" afterwards which is actually rock. Before I even found this out, I knew something was up because when rain got into my pit, the "ash" was like a sludge very similar to the limestone powder my company sells when it gets wet or when you drill a well and hit limestone rock that comes up all wet. There's no doubt that Stubb's is the best. I don't think they put any limestone in it at all. If they do it isn't much because my 6 hour burns don't leave a whole lot of ash behind and it's nothing like the rock powder that Kingford leaves behind. Also, comparing it to lump it's very similar in ash content and lump for sure doesn't have any additives.Always smoke with Stubbs it's worth the price.

Kingsfeeeeeeeeeeeeerrd. Haha, that was great. :-)

I think the Kingsford burn hotter, so because of that, they burn quicker. I use Stubbs BBQ Sauces, so I'd be interested in using the Stubbs briquettes with my smoker. Have you tried the stubbs in a smoker??

Kingsford says "high heat for searing". It's gonna burn fast. You need to try a different version of Kingsford for comparison.

I've always been told that you shouldn't put the meat on the grill till the charcoal was completely ashed to get the full heat. Is this true? If so, then Stubb's would take longer to put the meat on the grill.

Unfortunately, there are some pretty nasty substances that can legally fall under the term “all natural “. I use briquettes from time to time in my PBC but prefer natural hardwood lump mixed with wood in everything else. I’ve used Kingsford’s all natural lump briquettes but it’s expensive for the amount you get.

Ozark Oak is what I use to and I live in Arkansas

A good father

awesome review and your girls made it even better, I am having a problem finding the stubbs briquets in Charlotte, NC, where do you buy it?

I think you picked the perfect girls to be the judges

It's funny that you say kingsford has all these other fillers in their briquettes. They made a RU-vid video that states they only use 3 ingredients. 1. They have a small amount of lime that is used for creating that the gray color to let you know the charcoals ready. 2. They use cornstarch asCD a binder to hold the wood together and then 3. the remainder is wood pulp. Since there are only 3 things that they have listed I don't know why you would say that they have all these other things in there. I mean have you analyzed the charcoal to be able to justify your statement? I've had very good success with kingsford. It's readily available I usually get it when it's on sale I get to 2- 20 pound bags for 10 bucks I just picked up another 6 double bags today. When I smoke food I always supplement with the wood chunks as well. Here's the video link. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3TZROSXHxI.html

Great review from the cute munchkins! Is that a Chargriller in the background?

cute

You couldnt pay me to cook with kingsford

I believe Royal Oak beats them all.