Anybody Ever Used Grill Charcoal That Won't Cook???

I have two grills One Charcoal grill. The other a Propane one.
Guess which one I have used so much the base for holding the colas is on its last legs?
CHARCOAL Grill that is which one.
Used the Propane on a few times don't care for the taste of the meat, you can get that same taste using a grill on the stove that way. I like charcoal grilled taste.
So I went back to my charcoal use, and the propane one sits in the shed nearly new.

I had the same problem with the 13.00 kingsford sale at WM, cant even cook a 3/4 inch steak to medium well before they burn out.

I had a similar problem the other day. I thought maybe I had just bought too cheap of briquetts as I had purchased the Best Choice brand. But I really think that I had closed the lid too early and almost drounded the coals. I restarted the coals once again and when gray, I put the chicken back on and they cooked up nicely then. But I only closed the lid when a fire got started. Then I would only close it long enough to smother the fire out and then I would reopen the lid again and let cook.

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r.h. in oklahoma

Raised a country boy, and will die a country boy.

Because of heightened concern about the stability of the climate, manufacturers have steadily decreased the amount of carbon in charcoal.

Folks laughed at me when I bought 1,437 bags of the stuff back in 1993, when it was all still good, but who's laughing now?!?

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Less barking! More wagging!

Kingsford is in Michigan's U.P., way west. Lots of hardwood forests. Not too far from the place that makes the portable maple basketball courts used at many professional games. Henry Ford made cars in Kingsford, the Fliver, I believe. Northeast of there Ford owned a few thousand acres to supply the wood in the Model T and A.
Kingsford has been making charcoal for many years.
But the way brands change these days, I'd not be suprised if the bags came from China.

Well in a few weeks our small town has 3 days of charcoaled chicken days.
It will be interesting just how these so called New Charcoal Briquets are holding up.
These huge grills on Friday will start about 2 PM, and never shut down till midnight. And both on Saturday and Sunday start at 9AM and never start cooking chicken till midnight on Saturday night and around 10 PM on Sunday night.
This is a very small town of just over 600 people.
But during those three days they will have served 10,000 Servings of Chicken~!!
People come from miles and miles around, some from even out of State from Minn. to our little town for what is called
The Eleva Broiler Festival.
Been going on for over 55 years.
Once even held a Chicken Flying Contest. LOL
So being I grew up in the area, I know the pole cooking the chicken and I will find out IF they have problems with the charcoal.
Cause they go threw Pallets of bags of charcoal for those 3 days.
Constantly cooking chicken so those grills will use plenty of Charcoal.