True 'Cue Lump from Home Depot Review (with pics)

BurningDesireBBQ · Joined: 08 Nov 2009 Posts: 21 Location: Charlotte, NC

I made the mistake of picking up a bag of True 'Cue lump from Home Depot back in May.

It was closer to chips than lump.

I'm used to having some small pieces fall through the chimney, but this was the worst I had ever seen.

There were so many small pieces, it choked itself out and took forever to get going and had an awful thick grey almost black smoke. The picture doesn't do it justice. It looked like I was burning tires.

Once it finally did get going, it popped and sparked like the 4th of July.

I definitely won't be buying this again and wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

Brandon

Jarhead · Posted: Jul 16 2011 Post subject:

Brandon, thanks for the Heads Up.
That is some nasty lookin' stuff.
I've bought junk before, but nothing like that. Shocked

Did you write a review on the HD website to warn others?

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day_trippr · Posted: Jul 16 2011 Post subject:

The "True 'Cue" looks a lot better than that "BBQ King", but clearly they're both pretty bad. No Royal Oak in your areas? I've never gotten a (Made in USA) bag that was that shattered...

btw, BurningDesireBBQ, that Weber chimney looks like it has more miles on it than the Voyager 1 spacecraft - which left our solar system about 6 years ago Laughing

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Jarhead · Posted: Jul 17 2011 Post subject:

day_trippr, I found this at a freight salvage store. For the price I figured WTF, I'll try it.
Needless to say, I still had to go to WM and get some RO. Wink

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BurningDesireBBQ · Joined: 08 Nov 2009 Posts: 21 Location: Charlotte, NC

day_tripper, Wal-Mart does have RO here, and that's what I normally use. I just saw this at HD and decided to give it a shot. That old chimney is probably 8 or 9 years old. I actually just replaced it.

Jarhead, I hadn't thought to post a review on HD's site, but now that you mention it I do need to do that. And I think day_tripper is right, that "BBQ King" may be even worse than the True 'Cue!

Brandon