Tips For Using a Charcoal Chimney Starter
Charcoal chimney starters should be in everyone’s charcoal grill starter pack. They can light charcoal twice as fast and make it easier to get consistent temperatures and results when you grill. When you are new to grilling, knowing when the charcoal is ready can be a bit of a challenge and I give a few tips including how much charcoal to light, how to read the smoke coming off the charcoal, and a few other tricks to make it easier.
The Weber cubes, tumbleweeds, and chimneys, can be purchased at most hardware stores.
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Go to the nearest gas station and grab a tank of propane. Buy a Bravex 800k BTU torch and you will light your coals in under 2 minutes.
I just bought one of there things and filled it with heat beads and lit some firelighters at the bottom, Only the bottom layer of heat beads would get hot. so i had to do it in 3 batches, 1/3 full each time. What am i doing wrong?
I ultimately landed on Weber starter cubes as the best way to fire up a chimney. And I have used every method there is. Paper is free and works, but the ash is a horrible mess. One cube under a chimney of lump and you have a fire in less than 10 minutes. For a while I stood there with a MAPP or propane torch to light a pile of lump but that uses a ton of gas and you have to stand there. Fire up a cube under a chimney and walk away.
I accidentally got hot charcoal caught between my toes as a kid…
The kettle fell over in the backyard, and not knowing, I've come running out the back door because we had been playing….ouch
thank you for the quality tips. love from oklahoma!
2:02 the disadvantage of this is that the charcoals could need a few more extra minutes until they are ready as the chimney is restricted in air flow
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Ok but why does my charcoal last like 10 mins before completely turning to ash after using a chimney. Am I doing something wrong?!
Thank you for all your hard work making these videos.
Dint have lighter fluid and had a brand new chimney starter that I never even attempted to use. Lit it up last night and it’s safe to say I’ll never go back to lighter fluid again lol
May I use a part of this video to highlight charcoal safely in a Facebook group for Scouts BSA?
Just use newspaper, vaseline, and washer lint.
Does the entire chimney need to be lite before you empty into your grill?
Useful, thanks!
I tried it with kerosene
Heck I use a set of used hubcaps from a Hanford maintenance truck
What can we use to protect us against the sparks like gloves?
way too zoomed in on your face
Great tips here. Thank you
Propane to light coals? Hank would have a stroke
great tips!
Top tips dude love the newspaper with oil. I've never really struggled to light a bbq but I know of many that do.
Why? Just why?
Wouldn't hurt to have two just for the transfer
How to change a lightbulb 💡?