Didn't have any noticeable temp spike when I did that, I'm guessing bc the grill kept me regulated and likely dropped the airflow a little at that time. I might have gotten by without it, but I wanted to be safe so topped off partway through the cook. I've done long 12h+ smokes on mine with regular charcoal twice, and in both cases I added a couple extra charcoal chunks part of the way through the cook, to be safe. It's definitely solid for an 8h smoke, but tbd if it'll hit 10-12h or not. I soak mine ahead of time, and then put them on the side of the briq/charcoal right before I add meat. Some of the guys put them directly on top of the briq, others in a pan/cup if they want to keep them soaked. You can't re-use them, but we'll end up having a couple sizes for quick weeknight cooks vs longer weekend sessions. It's a little more expensive than hardwood lump if you break down the cost per cook across a bag, but when I did the math it wasn't too much more. An LSU buddy stumbled across this thread so I thought I'd weigh in. I bought 2 - 25 bags of the above at a local hardware store recently for next to nothing (around 5 bucks each). Disclaimer #2 - Coming totally clean here, I'm more of a general SEC fan than just an LSU fan, but I've got money on the line tomorrow and I met Orgeron at a bar where my brother worked once and he was awesome. ![]() Call/email and ask for John Rote if anyone wants to talk more or get more details. It's also easier to clean, but that's more of a nice-to-have than a critical benefit for me. ![]() The best comparison I can make is with my green egg - still holds low temps, still hits very high temps, still has cast iron grates, but it's much, much easier to start quickly and hit precise temps, so I end up using it way more than I ever did my egg. I haven't cooked with the speciality high heat pizza briq enough to compare, but my guess is that there's a difference there, since the pizza briq hits 900 and my regular charcoal hits about 750f, which still makes very, very good thin crust pizza. You have to start it like you would regular charcoal with a chimney or a starter (I like tumbleweeds), but from there regular charcoal works about 95% as well as the Spark briqs - you still set temp with a dial, fans regulate temp for you, does a very good job of hitting and maintaining a temp. I've used regular charcoal in mine about 20 times and it works very well.
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