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Sucess with charcoal Well tonight I had a fish to cook....tuna steak, looking mouthwatering without doing anything to it. I came home lit the BG egg with wood shavings and added a few large handfulls of lump charcoal. I had a birthday party to go to, so instead of indulging in greasy pizza, decided to wait until I got home to grill the tuna and savour it over a bed of shaved carrotts and arrugala...I love shaving things. Well to my surprise after 3 hours of burning, the coals were still decent enough to cook my fish. I have to say, I am quite impressed with using charcoal, that bag had been in my garage since I bought the BGE a few years ago. So from now on charcoal it is. Oh by the way, I have contacted Dennis about buying a KK. Maybe next time I cook a fish it will be on a devilishly handsome white kkk mon, I mean blue tiled OTB KK.

Jason that is a really good idea, burning wood off to the side, outside the cooker. Maybe I could burn the wood in the BGE and then throw the coals in the KK. Or maybe that is just a huge pain in the arse and I should just suck it up and use charcoal. When using charcoal, does it really heat up the KK quickly? I am not going to keep asking you 20 questions. Thanks for your responses. Peter

hardwood No, I start a small fire and when I have a steady flame, I add larger pieces of hardwood and close the lid, with about half of the air vent open. I can control the temp to some degree, but I usually have flames shooting out the top of the exaust. After about 1 hour, I have a beautiful bed of coals and cook over that.

One question I haven't seen asked is can you burn hardwood in the kk? I currently have a big green egg and use hardwood only. It may be that I don't do enough grilling with charcoal, but I heat with wood and have about 30 acres of woodlot, so it seems a waste to have to by charcoal. I am just concerned about damaging the ceramics with such high heat. I broke my thermometer on the BGE with temps off the charts and have had cracks on the inner rings.