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Charcoal Stoage… BAG?!?? Whatchya think?

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  • Posts: 482
    I have a couple of largish plastic storage containers that I put the charcoal into. With the top off, I can see what I'm getting.
    Somewhere on the Colorado Front Range
  • Posts: 4,716
    It might keep the rain out, but it's also sealing all the ambient moisture in.  A trash can that can breathe is a much better alternative for 1/3 of the price.
  • Posts: 34,689
    You have to perfect the string removal technique before you can buy the rig... =)
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
  • Posts: 2,571
    lousubcap said:
    You have to perfect the string removal technique before you can buy the rig... =)
    The baffling part here is my technique is consistent with a positive result rate of perhaps 33%.
    LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
    Great Plains, USA
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    It might keep the rain out, but it's also sealing all the ambient moisture in.  A trash can that can breathe is a much better alternative for 1/3 of the price.
    Yep. In the UK that is $90, I can get a trash can for a quarter of that price. 
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  • lousubcap said:
    You have to perfect the string removal technique before you can buy the rig... =)
    We’re still talking charcoal bags, right?
  • Posts: 34,689
    dbCooper said:
    The baffling part here is my technique is consistent with a positive result rate of perhaps 33%.
    The trick (Rockwood based) starting with the front of the bag facing way from you is to realize that the stitching process can start or finish on opposite ends of the bag at least as I have seen it.  But always start with the back orientation and find the extended knot-then cut that piece and go.  Always brings a smile-the simple pleasures of life!
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
  • Posts: 2,571
    I think that is my method, loop section of stitching facing me, cut knot off edge big end of loops point to, then pull string off the back (sometimes).  ;)
    LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
    Great Plains, USA
  • Posts: 18,477
    edited April 2024
    lousubcap said:
    The trick (Rockwood based) starting with the front of the bag facing way from you is to realize that the stitching process can start or finish on opposite ends of the bag at least as I have seen it.  But always start with the back orientation and find the extended knot-then cut that piece and go.  Always brings a smile-the simple pleasures of life!
    The trick is to not use a knife. 
  • Posts: 5,961
    The trick is to not use a knife. 
    Wait. What? I use a knife 90% of the time.

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  • Posts: 12,617
    We’re still talking charcoal bags, right?
    No, potato bags and rice bags.
    canuckland
  • Posts: 34,689
    Friday night... B)
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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  • Posts: 18,477
    shtgunal3 said:
    Wait. What? I use a knife 90% of the time.
    I haven’t used a knife in years. 
  • Posts: 10,380
    shtgunal3 said:
    Wait. What? I use a knife 90% of the time.
    Knife use 100% here - click, slice, click. Done in two seconds. Who's got time to futz around with a string?

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    Knife here too. I guess the few times I attempted the pull and didn't get 100% I didn't feel like the satisfaction would be worth the added time. 
  • Posts: 4,716
    edited April 2024
    We use a two string lock stitch, so it opens different than everybody else that use a single string chain stitch.
  • Posts: 20,889
    My bags of feed open up perfect 100% of the time.  They even have a little tab to pull so you can’t screw it up. @Stlcharcoal says feed companies hang their bags and stitch

    Don't tell your problems to people.  80% of people don't care and 20% are glad you have them.


  • Posts: 12,617
    Elijah said:
    Knife here too. I guess the few times I attempted the pull and didn't get 100% I didn't feel like the satisfaction would be worth the added time. 
    Bragging rights > satisfaction
    canuckland
  • Posts: 20,889
    I have torn an entire bag open in frustration.  That didn’t make the situation any better.

    Don't tell your problems to people.  80% of people don't care and 20% are glad you have them.


  • Posts: 4,716
    edited April 2024
    My bags of feed open up perfect 100% of the time.  They even have a little tab to pull so you can’t screw it up. @Stlcharcoal says feed companies hang their bags and stitch
    Yes those pinch bottom bags are manufactured with that pull strip on top.....they fill the upside down and stitch shut.  We have square bottom bags so they stand up, have to stitch the top and can't use the easy pull strip.  
  • Posts: 26,187
    My bags of feed open up perfect 100% of the time.  They even have a little tab to pull so you can’t screw it up. @Stlcharcoal says feed companies hang their bags and stitch
    What kind of 4 legged friend do you have that you are buying bags of feed?
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time!
  • Posts: 12,617
    edited April 2024
    ooops wrong thread
    canuckland
  • Posts: 20,889
    RRP said:
    What kind of 4 legged friend do you have that you are buying bags of feed?
    5 horses and 4 dogs.  I go through a lot of feed.

    Don't tell your problems to people.  80% of people don't care and 20% are glad you have them.


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    Hells bells, man, no wonder why you wanted to leave Illinois! Our jelly belly governor JB Pritzer wouldn’t  want “your type” smelling up Chicago  in a few months
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time!
  • Posts: 467
    I have 2 of them. I find them handy and relatively good looking - better than a tub or bin which my wife would like even less than me. I have two because I am always running two types of lump and don't like running out, so two lumps on the go mean two charcoal bags. I keep meaning to buy some luggage tags and prefit them with a pictures of the lump varieties I buy so I can identify which bag is containing which lump.

    I keep the lump in the paper bag inside the storage bag. Some people just put the lump in sans bag, but that gets dirty pretty fast. Pouring into the egg is easy, the handle on the bottom helps a lot. one gloved hand grabs the paper bag, the other ungloved hand grabs the built in handle and away we go.

    I did look at the weber 20lb bag, but it's for 20lbs of briquettes and there is no way 20lb of lump would fit in it.

    now the bad. 

    The bag is not waterproof.  I had one out on the deck in the rain and water got into it. bit of a mess. I *may* have had the rolled top toward the direction of the rain, but a dry bag's rolled top should not leak.  Worse was that the zipper of the side pocket leaked causing my backup box of starter bricks to get soaked. They dried out, but the box dissolved. sigh. 

    after that, i ensure that the  top is two or three rolls and facing away from the direction of rain. (all my wind comes from the south, so does the rain). However I still had a box of starters get wet. sigh.

    For the rest of winter I stored under the deck on the walk out patio. Works out well as I have a routine that when I take a pan of cold ashes to the compost, I grab a bag on the way back and fill the egg. So my egg is ready for the next lighting if the mood strike me. With drier summer weather coming I may bring a bag up on the deck with the egg, but the clean and fill works well for now.
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    Well… not waterproof doesn’t do me any good at all. 
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    36" Blackstone - Greensboro!


  • Posts: 20,889
    Well… not waterproof doesn’t do me any good at all. 
    That seems like a major design flaw.  Might as well just keep the charcoal bag outside.

    Don't tell your problems to people.  80% of people don't care and 20% are glad you have them.


  • Posts: 26,187
    Well… not waterproof doesn’t do me any good at all. 
    I agree, but I wonder why BGE says it is:
    The Big Green Egg all-weather charcoal storage bag is the perfect solution for keeping charcoal dry and ready to use, even in the toughest of conditions.


    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time!

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