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I've been doing a series of lump experiments to see how many cooks I can get out of a full firebox of lump. Although done on a non KK kamado this experiment focuses on the charcoal. Ceramic Chef being the fine kamado gentleman he is, sent me a box of KK Extruded Coconut Charcoal to test. TY again CC. I started by breaking up the charcoal into smaller pieces and filled my firebox. This took 21 logs (out of 24), approximately 17.5 lbs. I then did a series of separate cooks. I got 13 separate cooks out of that load of charcoal. Here is what was left after the 13 cooks. I've done this experiment with other brands of lump. This was a very impressive run using the KK Extruded Coconut Charcoal. It burned very consistently and I was beginning to think it would never run out. Very little ash production. It worked equally well for Low-n-slow and for high heat. Here is a list of the 13 cooks I did along with a couple of the more interesting money shots. A mixture of Low-n-slow, MD heat and high heat cooks. Basically whatever I felt like cooking that day. 1 Pork Sirloin 2 Bisquick Chicken Pot Pie 3 Kung Pao Steak and Shrimp 4 Pork Roast and Stuffed Scallops 5 Chicken Breasts 6 Baked Spaghetti and Meatballs 7 Garlic Lime Street Tacos 8 Whole Tilapia w/ Cedar Wrapped Asparagus 9 French Toast Stuffed w/ Fresh Raspberries 10 Raspberry ABT's & BBQ Chops 11 Undecided Pork Loin 12 CI Italian Steak 13 White Castle For Breakfast Cook 13 is sort of silly but a running joke with wilburpan After this run there are no doubts in my mind how efficient and easy KK Extruded Coconut Charcoal is. A great product for sure. Get some, you won't be disappointed.

I'm letting others do the cooking this week. On vacation.

I post 4+ kamado cooks per week (with plenty of pictures) on another forum but I'm not cooking on a KK yet so I feel it might not be appropriate to post them here. Ceramic Chef can attest to this. Some of them are just no flair dinner's but others I feel I hit it out of the ball park. I have recently done a lump experiment using KK Extruded Coconut Charcoal which yielded 13 separate cooks on one load of coconut. Very impressive results. Will post a summary of this within the next day or two.

I surely hope the 32" Big Beast doesn't get jealous. Good luck on the new grill. Enjoy !