Lumpwood v Briquettes

[mairyhinge]

I am probably opening up an whole debate here again and apologies if I have. However I hope my question is subtly different.
I have always been pro lumpwood, and not the normal supermarket "slag" that you get. I normally go for the restaurant grade half tree limbs charcoal, but reading the instructions and general web browsing was suggesting using briquettes which I am not a fan of due to their unknown constituents.

So I was thinking what's best to use, I have been reading on here about the cocoshell briquettes. I had a thought to use those for indirect cooking as I believe they may hold the heat for longer than lumpwood and would require less intervention by topping up and hence less temperature loss.
I would then use lumpwood for any direct cooking

Can the guru's here give me an idea to whether my "plan" is bonkers or has a glint of sense to it?

Thanks in advance.

[All Weather Griller]

If you're in Lancashire and anywhere near Burnley as long as you are buying bags in a minimum of 5 bags per order you can get restaurant grade direct from the factory.

I use restaurant pretty much all the time especially for smoking, although I may use a chimney of briquettes to start.

Go with what you know, if you're happy with lump stay with lump. I used it in all the comps last season.

I prefer lump for the longer lower slower cooks. If it were me I would do the reverse briquettes for grilling lump for smoking. There will be other opinions but that one is mine, not affected in the slightest by the fact that I sell cocoshell. I will still use lump!

[mairyhinge]

Thanks for the reply, I may stick with the Lumpwood then and experiment.

[mairyhinge]

It looks like I will go down the lump wood route, just done some direct cooking with the same volume of lump as briquettes as I used for my indirect.
After I done the cooking, I put the lid on to see what the temperature would get up to. Well it was sitting about the 240 mark, 40 degrees higher than the briquettes. Granted this is not a scientific test but, my preference would be lump anyway. How long lump will stay hot for is my next test

PS I found this, its the same stuff as found in Makro and the delivery aint bad if you buy in bulk.

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http://www.liverpoolwoodpellets.co.uk/getintouch.html

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