Heat Beads Hardwood Lump Charcoal

We threw an entire bag into the bin.... Never buying that rubbish again. I totally agree with Kamado Griller. This charcoal has not completed pyrolysis or carbonization. This product is easy to light because it is heavy in VOC, resins, oils.... My mouth is still a little numb from the vapours.... yuk!!! And if they are using wood from eucalypts gum for the charcoal? There is your answer.... double Yuk!!! Must be sourced from a similar supplier as the independents because I paid the same for a bigger bag x2 and it too stunk.... Threw that in the bin too.... If you use this product your very expensive meats and other foods will stink, and be inedible. Luck we did not have guests and we were testing this cook on us beforehand. Bin.... A good quality charcoal is just carbon. It should be light in weight, half way to Styrofoam in density. Next time you are at your hardware or BBQ shop, pickup various brands to see the density. The lighter the better. Or a good alternative is a good quality 100% CHARCOAL briquette.... Not petroleum based HeatBeads or similar....

Bad quality after extreme price hiking – This product used to be ok, before the price was gouged to $69.98 for 20kg

Acrid smoke and flameups. Creosote flavour – I used this brand of lump charcoal for the first time in the last three weeks. The pieces are large and solid, and feel heavy, which was reassuring. However, the charcoal spitz like crazy, flames up a lot and produces an eye-watering acrid smoke that takes forever to dissipate. When I want to bake bread or other foods that absorb a lot of the smoke flavour, I have to do a hot, hot burn first to clean the charcoal of its incredibly acrid smoke, and end up wasting a huge proportion of it to get a clean burning bed.

It feels like the charcoal is incompletely combusted and retains a lot of its wood volatiles, which would explain the flames and acrid smoke, and perhaps the solid, heavy feel of the pieces.

I wanted to love it but I was disappointed and will not buy it again.

Heat Beads Hardwood Lump Charcoal 20KG over priced – Use to buy these, but the price has almost doubled in the past 6 months, I suspect its covid related or Profit related, though Heat Bead Product are now all expensive. The 20kg bag now $54.98 at Bunnings and 10kg bags offered else where for $30.00 . Has become too expensive to purchase have found a respectable competitor selling 21kg for $44.95 (3 x 7kg bags @$14.95 per bag) Heat Beads are good but not that good