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VOCs - Charcoal Chimney

n00b
n00b Posts: 35
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My wife and I moved in to our new house this week (have been eggless for 6 months at our apartment!) My heat gun power cord isn't long enough to get the egg started up outside so I swung over to Home Depot and picked up a charcoal chimney that was on discount. It used to take me 40+ min with the heat gun to get clean smoke. With the chimney, it only takes about 10, max.  Have others noticed this? Is it because it gets to top heat so much quicker, it burns through the bad smoke that much quicker? I have been using the same charcoal. 
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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262
    I use a chimney.  It always takes 2+ hours for me to get good smoke.  I use royal oak - what are you using?
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  • n00b
    n00b Posts: 35
    Same - royal oak. CDS every once in a while
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  • xfire_ATX
    xfire_ATX Posts: 1,139
    I use RO never noticed an issue, takes 30+ min to get up to temp so that likely solves it.
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  • DaveRichardson
    DaveRichardson Posts: 2,324
    If you are using only the charcoal in the chimney, logic says that once you get them going, the VOC's will burn off quickly since they get rip-roaring using this method. 

    But if you are adding that to a pile of lump in the egg that is not burning, you will have to get that burned off as well.

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  • Mikee
    Mikee Posts: 897
    DaveRichardson
    But if you are adding that to a pile of lump in the egg that is not burning, you will have to get that burned off as well.

    That would be true of any method. No one fires up all the lump at once. Dumping a blazing hot load of lump will burn off the VOC's pretty quick.
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