Has anyone used Briquettes in there egg

That's usually not a good plan! What kind of briquettes were you using??

I've used them as a Plan B in my Eggs. Accidentilly bought some Royal Oak briquettes thinking they were lump once.

I would use 'em if I was too lazy to do the 1 hour round trip to get the 'real deal' lump charcoal from my nearest dealer.

More ash by FAR. Can't hit the higher temps if you need or want to like lump can.

Seeing as how you're a dealer I wouldn't stock the stuff although IMO briquettes are OK to use in a pinch if the other alternative is the oven. :laugh:

Ash residue is noticably more with briquettes. What brand of briqettes did you use and what brand of lump were you using before?

I won't personally. I've used briquettes now and then and I'm not talking about the crappy instant light with lighter fluid added or low quality brands.

I own three eggs total and the oldest is now 11 years old. I've done enough cooking to know the difference, 'nuff said.

Briquettes, good quality natural briquettes, are OK in the Egg but they are not as good as lump on many levels.

The only lump charcoal I've ever encountered that would make me make a special run to get real charcoal is that gawdawful Kingsford lump.

I've heard the same. But I'm just not going to give them my business again after their version one lump completely ruined some great ribeyes I attempted to cook.

It wasn't just the sparking when you light. The stuff dumped ash all over the food even after being lit and to temp for an hour before the food went on.

Oh yeah, I forgot about all the ash on the food.

if you have to use briquettes. Over the last couple of years I've used two or three bags of them.

There's quite a bit of ash compared to regular lump but they do burn quite hot and for quite a while.

On my first try with WG briquettes I cleaned out all of the old lump and dumped in a whole load of briquettes.

They burned hot and very evenly and since then I found that mixing the WG briquettes in with my WG lump helps extend my cook time quite a bit - like I need to do that if I use WG Weekend Warrior!

My 2¢ worth

I don't know what brand you seem reluctant to name, unless I missed it. I have used Rancher all natural briquettes, they do burn OK but make an incredible amount of ash. I still have four bags in my shed that I don't know what to do with.

I had a bag of Nature-Glo briquettes (the kind with no binders or anything else in them) that I needed to finish up, so I used them for a couple of cooks on my large BGE.

I didn't notice anything great about them. Let's put it that way. They weren't bad, but they left a lot of ash, didn't get as hot, and didn't have any smoke taste to them.

I use the Nature-Glo Charcoal lump now (aka Royal Oak) and really like the smoke that I get from the lump alone. With chicken I don't even add any extra smoking wood.