Cheap Cowboy Charcoal 13020 Hardwood Lump Charcoal, 20-Pound

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WalMart was out of my standby lump charcoal so I had to buy this as an alternative. It was $.37/lb more and the 8 lb bag had 2-3 lbs of chips and dust which are unusable. There was also so uncarbonized wood in the bag. Better lump options exist. Do not buy this stuff unless you are in a pinch.

I will mention however, that when I contacted Cowboy and told them about the poor quality of the product, they refunded my money very quickly.

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I bought this from a local store and at first was impressed. The bigger pieces are (of course) at the top of the bag. However by the time I got to the bottom 1/3 of the bag I was down to chips and dust. Not very effective for cooking. In fact, I had to halt a slow cook in the middle and reload with better lump charcoal as the small pieces of cowboy were just not holding temperature.

You can buy this stuff for $15 to $20 but bear in mind that you'll basically end up tossing 5-7 lbs because it's mostly chips and dust.

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I've been through a bunch of bags of this stuff because the store just up the road carries it. The bag contains way too many very small pieces that fall out the bottom of my chimney starter or slip through the grate of my grill and are wasted. The big chunks that do remain burn well and the flavor of my low and slow barbecue is good. Much better than briquettes, which I stopped using 20 years ago. But I'm looking for better options.

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absolute garbage, just like others have said. floor sweepings, plywood, and nails are just some of trash you'll find labelled as "lump" in this bag. you might get lucky with a few oversized chunks but mostly what you get when you open a bag of Cowboy is a face full of cancerous black dust. no excuse for using this crap, look forward to hearing Cowboy Industries has gone under.......

it don't get much simpler ...... just head over to Walmart, Lowes or Hell Depot for a bag of cheap and very good Royal Oak.

your welcome!

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I have been using the big green egg for about a year now. I have been buying their brand of charcoal and it is quite expensive.

I thought I would try Cowboy charcoal, it cheaper and I thought, "how much different could charcoal be?" let me tell you, it's not worth the few dollars you save. No matter how much I warm up the grill I can't get this stuff over 500 degrees. I have added more, let it catch and still nothing. With the green egg charcoal it would get to 700 in a heartbeat.

The bags also had a ton of dust and strange pieces of scrap in them.

Spend the few extra bucks on premium charcoal (I have never used any other than green egg).