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Why is my charcoal "popping"?
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rbaldwin83
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Last night I opened a new bag of BGE charcoal and while it was getting hot it was making a popping noise and sparks were coming out of the bottom vent. Anyone else ever have this problem?
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Very common. It soon subsides after a while.
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I get the snap crackle pop when I hit it with the Weed Burner on start up, and sometimes during the cook. I think there could be a rogue piece of lump in there doing that.
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One of the Weber cookbooks says gas gets trapped in pockets of the charcoal and pops in a little mini-explosion when ignited. Could be that, or the lump is under stress (like metal or glass before annealing) and the stress violently breaks off little chunks as burning. Who knows. Seems like mesquite does it more than most.
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Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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Ok. Thanks for the help.
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Sounds very suspicious to me. I think you should send your egg and all your lump to me and I'll investigate it free of charge for you.
Damascus, VA. Friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail.
LBGE Aug 2012, SBGE Feb 2014
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Mickey with some 4th of july fireworks going on. So far every brand I have tried has sparked and popped some. Seems like the BGE has been the worse so far to do it.
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Pace Park used to have more trees before Mickey broke out the torch-wand...
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Cowboy is the worse, it spits like that through the whole cook. Seems like new lump sparks but when you relight a second time it's not so bad
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I was Egging yesterday and well into the cook, my lump popped and I felt a burning sensation on my THINLY protected scalp. I hope it didn't fry any of the hair I got left!Flint, Michigan
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I thought to myself 'cowboy can't be as bad as people say. Lump is essentially lump' so I bought two large bags from lowes. Happy as could be day I finished. Sucks. Pops. Incredible amounts of ash. Never buy again.SmokinDAWG82 said:Cowboy is the worse, it spits like that through the whole cook. Seems like new lump sparks but when you relight a second time it's not so bad
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FanOfFanboys said:
Cowboy is the worse, it spits like that through the whole cook. Seems like new lump sparks but when you relight a second time it's not so bad
I thought to myself 'cowboy can't be as bad as people say. Lump is essentially lump' so I bought two large bags from lowes. Happy as could be day I finished. Sucks. Pops. Incredible amounts of ash. Never buy again.Large BGE -
When I think of WGWW, I think of the top 5 rappers of all time: 1)Dylon 2)Dylon 3)Dylon 4)Dylon 5)Dylon This is why:
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Wrong, good sir. It is spelled with a "C" but it isn't silent. More of a "sh" sound for "Chapelle show". He was making fun of MTV's Real World.Fred19Flintstone said:Crap music spelled with a silent "C".
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Sorry. Nobody lost their job or their girl or their dog or wrecked their pick-up so I wouldn't know anything about it. Other than it's crap.Flint, Michigan
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Now that you mention it, so is country (for the past 25 or so years). Except it has a hard "c" instead of a silent one.Fred19Flintstone said:Sorry. Nobody lost their job or their girl or their dog or wrecked their pick-up so I wouldn't know anything about it. Other than it's crap.
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Unless you were talking about WGWW. Sorry about the misunderstanding )
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