Duraflame all natural hardwood briquettes?

[EvilleGriller]

Does anyone have any experience using these? I was using Cowboy natural lump, but wasn't happy, and I know a lot of people won't use briquettes. These are 100% sustainable and natural briquettes made from 100% hardwood. Anyone with any other experience?


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[r6abusa]

looks like Duraflame is cowboy, see here:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag41.htm

Try Royal Oak if you can get your hands on it, its widely distributed. Here in MI i buy it from Wal-Mart or GFS (labled as GFS lump but is just RO in GFS packaging)

*EDIT* sorry, I misread the post thinking it was lump, not sure about thier briqs.
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[Smokinfunk]

The Duraflame all-natural briquettes just made their appearance here in Pensacola, FL - my better half picked me up a bag.

Appearance-wise, my hopes were not high. The briquettes had the same fibery look as the Nature's Hardwood briquettes that are made in Mexico (not the better Nature's Hardwood briquettes that came from Paraguay).

Fortunately, 4 hours into my spareribs cook, it looks like the appearance is the only thing not-so-good about these briquettes. I use the minion method with my charcoal basket in my offset. At this point in the cook, it's looking like I may have used about 30% too much charcoal in the basket. I'm seeing nice steady temps, they seem to be burning hotter than typical briquette performance judging by the position of my firebox vents - it's a really humid day in Pensacola, which usually means I'll burn through more fuel to maintain the same temp, but today I swear the amount of unburnt briquettes left in the basket last time I threw in a stick of mesquite is much higher than I usually see. Won't have a final word on this till the cook is done, but so far I like what I'm seeing.

This is the first all-natural briquette I've used that (so far) performs like OCC's Rancher, and I can't tell you what a load it is off my mind that I've finally found a decent fuel souce here in town. Up until fairly recently, I've been getting by with the remainders of my Rancher stash from last year, and had been seriously worried that I was going to have to switch to an inferior product (inferior in at least one, if not many, criteria). The timing could not have been better for the Duraflame. Yesterday, cleaning up the garage, I discovered about 1/3 bag of Rancher that had accidentally gotten "hidden" behind some other stuff. Today, the very last of my Rancher went into the charcoal chimney as the starter for today's fire (almost got a little misty crumpling up the empty bag), and the cold coals in the basket at noon (start of cook) are all Duraflame.

I've been very eager to try (or see some reviews of) the upcoming new all-natural Kingsford product, in the hope that it would come somewhere close to Rancher - now, I may not have to. And when I think back to the tactics Kingsford was pulling to keep OCC out of Home Depot, I'm still so pissed at them that I don't care if I ever buy any of their products again - now it looks like I may not have to! A win-win if there ever was one.

BTW - hope I'm not overly peeing-in-the-wheaties of some Kingsford fans out there - not my intent to insult or offend. On the other hand, if you're a Kingsford fan - have you even TRIED all-natural briquettes? Then don't get your back up until you have. Once I switched, never looked back. Trust me, you won't either. It's been over 5 years since a Kingsford product has seen the inside of my grill or smoker. A good all-natural briquette is the way to go if you're not stickburning and don't want to deal with the temp spikes (aka babysitting) that often comes with burning lump. It's as close to set-it-and-forget-it that I can get short of buying a WSM or a BBQ Guru (maybe that's next Xmas).
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[necron 99]

Funk,

Where (what store) did you buy the Duraflame briquets at and what was the cost?

BTW, the Stubb's brand briquets are also manufactured by Cowboy, so they should be similar in performance if you run across those.
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