Lighting Lump Charcoal Chimney

Allow to heat up approximately 15 minutes with lump charcoal and 20 25 minutes for briquets.

Lighting lump charcoal chimney.

Wear heat resistant gloves and closed toe shoes whenever handling a hot chimney starter. With a few simple materials and these easy to follow directions you ll be grilling up a great meal for family and friends in no time. The fire from the cubes will begin burning the. Pieces of hot charcoal.

Light the charcoal briquettes. Place several charcoal briquettes in the grill. Chimney starter safety tips. Use either a long stemmed lighter or long strips of cardboard to light the charcoals.

In today s video we are taking a look at how to light charcoal without lighter fluid or chimney. First of all i recommend the chimney which is a great way to start your charcoal. The process is the same regardless of how much charcoal you re lighting or whether you re using briquettes or lump charcoal. In the past i have experienced a variety of ways to light the lump charcoal.

A simple and time honored tradition of lighting the coals in the charcoal chimney is wadding up sheets of newspaper into a ball and then placing them under the bottom of the chimney. Then you ll need to set the chimney starter directly on top of the lighter cubes on the charcoal grate. Let the charcoal sit with the rebar out and lid cracked about an inch. Then fill your chimney starter all the way to the top with charcoal you can use less if you aren t cooking as much food.

The briquettes should be stacked in a conical pile then covered liberally with lighter fluid. Add additional charcoal to the custom pit barrel chimney starter and evenly distribute over the hot coals filling the charcoal basket and place your grate in the cooker. And of course i have figured out two good ways to start the lump charcoal for the smoker the grill and the pit. Both of these methods are a surefire way to get your charcoal grill fired up and ready to go.

The remainder of this article explains how to use a weber chimney starter. Lighting your lump charcoal grill with a charcoal chimney or starter square.