Marienburg Organic Restaurant Grade Lumpwood BBQ Charcoal for Barbecues and Pizza Ovens, 30L

It is a very good coal, easy to light up, no assistance and doesn’t make much smoke. Only issue it burns quick.

I've moved from supermarket smoking spitting cheap coal to proper charcoal that lights with a sheet of paper and produces no smoke. The problem is this type of charcoal likes to be on an open BBQ and needs a bit of a jiggle to remove and ash and open the coal to fresh air.The charcoal from a local source used sycamore, which is superb if you like to keep moving it about, lots of ash, no smoke and no spitting. I tried alderline, good but the same as the local stuff. Plenty of huge pieces.The marienburg is slightly better than the other two if you use a kettle and cook with the lid on. It doesn't ash up as much. It does however spit a bit more. Not as bad a supermarket stuff though. If cooking with the lid on, a few kicks to the BBQ legs every 10 mins is good enough. Burn time is acceptable and adding more coal during cooking soon add extra hear. It is ready to cook on in 10 minutes or so. This stuff is very light. Ignore any comments about the weight. You get a big bag full. It chinks beautifully when lit. Way better than charcoal briquettes!

Overall it was good, easy to light up, no special smell. But I was a bit surprised with the weight when I received it which was very light in such a big bag. The charcoal inside is quite broken into small pieces. This is good to light up but not good for lasting. I expect it can last for the whole BBQ but not. It burnt up quite fast into ash. Other than this, it's good.

Easy to light

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This is thee worst charcoal I've ever used , the burn time is literally over in about half an hour, the charcoal felt very light so wonder if it was over done, the charcoal it's self had a really nice aroma that did add to the flavour, sadly the cooking time and having to use a small blower to keep these coals going was a huge let down.The last cook I done was some shelled prawns and it only just about cooked them !I don't know if I had a bad batch, but I won't be buying these again, I will stick to my normal brand which had sold out at the time of buying this , gutted for the seller as it is a great smelling charcoal , but as they say in the Dragons Den, I'm out

Thought i would try this as it was cheaper than the KJ coal. Wont be buying it again - not as good, burns a lot quicker and the pieces seem a lot smaller/lighter. Goes to show you get what you pay for

Honestly up there on the quality of this product.. ready to cook on pretty dash quick