Just out of curiosity . . .

SLOandSteady

what type of charcoal do you use? Briquettes or Lump? I use briquettes for my Weber grill and wanted to know what is everyone's preference. Still haven't got my egg yet, but that should all change come the Denver Eggfest.

Celtic Wolf

Lump less ash and more cooking time..

Chris in Gwinnett

Lump is all I use, and I would be willing to bet that is what most egg owners use. What Celtic Wolf said, less ash more cooking time.

gdenby

The problem with briquettes is that they are full of binders that hold together the little charcoal bits. They generate enough ash to clog the Egg. My first use of briquettes was when I found I had bought Royal Oak "natural" briquettes instead of lump. A single 4 hour cook produced enough ash to start damping the fire. So, for short cooks, briquettes are fine. Having the fire go out on an overnighter because of ash build up would not be fun.

As a BTW, on another forum today I came across a query where someone asked how long 10 lb of briquettes would last on a WSM at 250 degrees. The answer was 8 hours. On my MBGEs, 3 pounds of lump will last at least 12 hours during a lo-n-slo.

FlaPoolman

Lump,,, and also just in case you didn't know get rid of the lighter fluid if you were using it

Ripnem

Briquets have icky stuff added to them. You should try lump in your Webber till ya join da club.

SLOandSteady

Thanks so far for your input. I never used lighter fluid because I started off using a charcoal chimney when began grilling. I think that I'll do a test run of lump through my Weber grill to familiarize myself a bit.

James MB

As well as the higher ash content the thing about briquettes are the binder breaks down first, which means part burned briquettes are prone to turn back to the charcoal dust they were made from. This isn't a worry in a one shot scenario like a kettle grill but in an egg you'll want to be able to use the leftover charcoal next time.
btw this is possible in the WSM you just have to be very gentle with the charcoal grate (wiring the charcoal ring to the charcoal grate is very helpful here)