Rocks in charcoal?

NervousDad

I just did a clean out burn and there were rocks in the bottom. Is that normal ? Please excuse my filthy hand

Chris_Wang

I typically find a few here and there.

Sundown

Once in a while a rock but, what I hate is those damned big chunks of charcoal that I have to break up! pain in the glutes!

Cullum

Very common here. They don't smoke too good )

henapple

Come on now... Brand name.

Dawnl

Yes, got a 1# rock in my BGE lump bag that came with my LBGE.  Was sort of surprised.

Mattman3969

Brand please

Hungry Joe

Name a brand and it will have rocks and often other foreign material. Perfectly normal.

RRP

Here's just a small part of my rock collection! BTW yes rocks are common. If you ever watch the videos of lump production it isn't done in hospital room sanitary conditions. Instead it's large equipment scooping up tree trunks, stumps, and assorted scraps from the lumber business. Metal is also not uncommon. It really doesn't make much sense to knock a particular brand it happens to all of them by accident not on purpose.

biznork

I get them in cowboy brand fairly regularly.

NervousDad

It was wegmans (royal oak)brand I ran about 15# prior to tho clean out. Thank you for the info, that it's normal.

henapple

I have gone through at least 50 bags of Ozark Oak and have never found any rocks... Only this.

biznork

Cowboy is the only brand I can find in my area unless I drive half an hour to get a bag of big green egg lump. Kind of sucks.

Fred19Flintstone

Debris is not uncommon. I have worse luck with Cowboy than any other brand I've tried. Plastic strapping, insulation, plywood "lump" and of course rock & concrete. YMMV.

Skiddymarker

Yep, rocks are normal - using the Whiz's inch square for reference, found this just under 2# meteor in a 8# of RO. 

Eggdam

I find a rock in royal oak about every 3 bags.

rsmith193

I've been lucky since I changed to The Good One brand. A pallet of charcoal and no rocks. Other brands lots of rocks.

henapple

Fred19Flintstone said:

Debris is not uncommon. I have worse luck with Cowboy than any other brand I've tried. Plastic strapping, insulation, plywood "lump" and of course rock & concrete. YMMV.

I respectfully disagree with my OO experience.

flynnbob

henapple said:

Debris is not uncommon. I have worse luck with Cowboy than any other brand I've tried. Plastic strapping, insulation, plywood "lump" and of course rock & concrete. YMMV.

I respectfully disagree with my OO experience.

You got it brother, No foreign material in OO to date for me.

Cullum

Only used royal oak and bge charcoal, both had rocks.

RRP

Just saying...even one pallet of bags could be filled from the lump created from just one perfect tree trunk out of one kiln. So it stands to reason bags from one pallet may have no rocks at all while bags from another pallet from another kiln may have one two or more rocks. Personally I take it in stride.

henapple

I understand.. I'm merely saying I've used OO for a year, several different loads from 2 different stores and not one rock. Not knocking any other brand. Just my experience.

RRP

Hey, I'm cool with your experience and I love Ozark Oak myself, but I had to make a 520 mile round trip to buy mine as no one stocks it here. Guess I'm just trying to let new eggers know that rocks are not uncommon in most lump products available to most of us in the US and for them not to be upset. Once I even found what obviously had been a yellow handled Philips head screwdriver in it's former life! Stuff happens!

Justacookin

Just looking at henapple's find know we might know where Hoffa went.

stlcharcoal

Char dust covered rocks look just like charcoal when they're getting poured into the bags.

Please excuse them.....we try to sort everything out, but stuff sneaks by sometimes.

mgoblue0484

NervousDad said:

It was wegmans (royal oak)brand I ran about 15# prior to tho clean out. Thank you for the info, that it's normal.

I buy Wegmans lump regularly, I like to use it for quick burns; I've had a couple of rocks, but never that big.

RRP

Justacookin said:

Just looking at henapple's find know we might know where Hoffa went.

Hoffa went into a quarter dollar sized piece of wire that was probably the loop of a whisk broom? And here all these years I guessed Hoffa just got shot to death... but getting strained through a wire former machine had to hurt!!!

Que_n_Brew

Interesting. I use RO and I have never seen a rock, nail, ect, ect