Burning Charcoal logs is very good indeed.

[guest5234]

Made a load of charcoal for my barbecue last night in my 55 gallon drum, put in some large splits as an experiment for using in my Jotul stove, they came out very well and the heat and time they lasted was excellent...plus...no smoke just hot hot heat.

 

[begreen]

They do burn cleanly, but so does your nice Jotul. The wood to make the charcoal smoked, just outdoors in the burn barrel. By burning real wood in the Jotul you will get the benefit of burning off the wood gases much more cleanly and a lot more heat in the house instead of outdoors as they burn off.

 

[davidmc]

This looks like it will work pretty good. I am going to try it this fall/winter.

http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/charcoal/index.html

 

[guest5234]

They do burn cleanly, but so does your nice Jotul. The wood to make the charcoal smoked, just outdoors in the burn barrel. By burning real wood in the Jotul you will get the benefit of burning off the wood gases much more cleanly and a lot more heat in the house instead of outdoors as they burn off.

Yep I agree, was just an experiment i will not bother repeating.

 

[begreen]

Sounds like you have a nice stash of charcoal for the BBQ though.

 

[nate379]

Don't know how you can run those smoke monster BBQs. I use propane. I'm in the house eating my steak supper before your charcoal is even warm

 

[branchburner]

My grilling math: propane + "before charcoal is even warm" = why not Burger King

 

[Jags]

Don't know how you can run those smoke monster BBQs. I use propane. I'm in the house eating my steak supper before your charcoal is even warm

Nate: I have a quite large and fancy propane grill that I use. It is a 75,000 btu unit. It will ROCK. Takes ~10 min to hit 500F. My charcoal grill, when using a charcoal chimney starter requires about 20 min. to hit that temp. For 10 minutes extra, my steak is gonna see real wood. The flavor CANNOT be matched on gas, even running with wood chips on the gas.

Don't get me wrong, I love my propane unit, and use it often, but it simply will not turn out the steak that the wood fire will.

And for the record - I am a certified food whore.