WHICH CHARCOAL TO USE?

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For GRILLING & BBQ SPITS AND ROTISSERIES:-
- Ashless RED GUM. Make a 4-6" charcoal bed, as a shallow bed will go out. Best for Spits as no ash to blow onto meats.

- MALLEE ROOT is hot and long lasting, but is a bit ashy and sparks a lot when starting with a Heat Gun as the wood contains some Mallee soil and the quartz in it explodes into long travelling sparks. It can be used for Grilling, Spits, and LowNslow. 

- NAMIBIAN AFRICAN ZULU. Is very hot and works well in a shallow Hibachi or Skewers Grill it leaves fine ash. It lights very easily and starts in 45 seconds with our 2000W Heat Gun 

For LOWnSLOW BBQ SMOKING:- 

- GREY BOX. Heavy dense shiny charcoal for long cooks with restricted airflow, leaves some ash. Burns a little longer than Ironbark.
- IRONBARK. Easy to start, a mound can be choked or slowed down by restricted air vents for a long cook. A small mound will go for 9hrs in a Kamado with bottom vent fully open and top vent 20% open. 

- MALLEE ROOT is hot and long lasting, but is a bit ashy and sparks a lot when starting with a Heat Gun as the wood contains some Mallee soil and the quartz in it explodes into long travelling sparks. It can be used for Grilling and LowNslow. 

- BAMBOO CHARCOAL LOGS. Takes 20-30mins to start these dense long burning coal logs in a Charcoal Chimney with 3-4 Tumbleweed Firelighters underneath,nstack them vertically so the flames go up the hole and start them from the inside. They burn Hot & Smokeless for 7hrs. They need flames touching it to light, as it will not start with an electric Heat Gun. 

ALL DAY COMMERCIAL GRILLING: Use an unlit layer of Bamboo Logs under a large Grill Pit and top it with lit Red Gum Charcoal. The smokeless Bamboo coal adds hours to a long cook, and Red Gum Charcoal produces the smokey flavour.   
Add small broken pieces in a Gravity Feed Smoker chute to double the cooking time for 1 load of coal.

BAMBOO CHARCOAL TECHNIQUES:-

- OFFSET SMOKERS: Stack a large cross hatch pile of long Bamboo Logs in the Fire Box, use hot charcoal logs for the bottom 1 or 2 layers and stack unlit layers on top for a long cook. 

- SHALLOW SKEWER GRILLING & INDOOR STEAK HOUSE GRILLING: Use 1 layer of hot Bamboo Logs.

- KOREAN TABLE TOP COOKING: Use small pieces in fire bowl, pre-lit in a Charcoal Chimney.

- HIBACHI TABLE TOP GRILLING: Use several small pieces,  pre-lit in a Charcoal Chimney.

- KAMADO:- A Charcoal Chimney full of hot pieces will go for 7+ hours in a Kamado with bottom vent fully open and top vent open 20%.  Place unlit pieces on top of a hot mound for a long cook..