Dont get it twisted. Wood chips, wood chunks and charcoal are all good.
Natural lump charcoal is burned wood! You enter the bullshyt category when you start buying briquettes and hickory smoked flavored charcoal or mesquite heat charcoal, pretty much any of the Kingsford shyt. Especially that quick starting shyt.
Stay away from all that bullshyt.
I understand expenses and honestly regular Kingsford is super fukking cheap so I won't shame anyone for copping bags of it, but if you buy quick lighting charcoal or hickory flavored charcoal or that shot you get the automatic


cause it's straight dookie. You might as well empty your trash can onto your grill set it on fire and cook you food over the discarded food, mail, dirty diapers, food containers and whatever else is in your trash can. And propane is light-years ahead of that doo doo ass quick start charcoal or hickory flavored, mesquite flavored whatever shyt they be trying to sell.
Also if you are using any type of lighter fluid

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