Been watching a ton of these videos this morning and yours is one of the clearest, in terms of what you're saying, picture, sound, and the burn too. Thanks!
I have found it is better to spread the coals out a little before the flames get to the top and all of them are bright red. The coals will light more evenly, and the ones at the top that don't get red in the chimney will ash over within a couple minutes of spreading them usually, and the coals will last a good bit longer.
bert H I don't know if this is safe but I was using an electric coal starter element inside on top of opening in the charcoals, made sure the handle was outside and it got the coals going pretty quick. Again this may not be real safe, more or less an experiment on my part.
+Only1Truth Electric Charcoal Starters are indeed safe. UL listed. Now of course, electric starters require basic common sense. Like finishing off a pint of Jim Beam & falling asleep while the starter sits burning, thus, causing a 4 alarm fire. If you get my drift!
I typically do, but it's harder to get a video with it down there. So for the purposes of showing how it worked, I lit it on the cooking grates. But good catch!
@@jev0015 That was uncalled for. Please be respectful of individuals, no matter how brilliant you think your experience is. I'm sure its stellar given your choice of words. And, btw I took away a positive review & demo from Gadget Geek.
I'm curious if you noticed different results with different newspaper sheets. Usually I'd use three full sheets and it would take about 20 min 'til ready. Sometimes the paper didn't work as well. I'm thinking that highly color inked paper didn't work as well as plain black type sheets. I'm prefering the Weber lighter cubes-one seems to work very well and there is no ash flying all over and they are relatively cheap and 100% reliable.
Great video. I was almost certain I was going to get a propane grill. Mostly cause propane grills heat up faster and you have to constantly attend to the charcoal when trying to get it hot. Thoufh, to me charcoal grills give out better taste. Until I saw this device. I'm just about sold on getting a charcoal grill.
All Stores Please lower the price of all Military and Local for all brands of the Charcoal Starter Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$$ The Whole World Now pray
There's nothing wrong with lighter fluid or match light charcoal, these chimneys make it much faster and easy to light than fluid. I will never go back to using lighter fluid blue that I use one of these.
Food tastes like fluid even if you burn it all off never complete get rid of fluid taste on the food. Also you do save money because you don't have to buy fluid again, but I use more for better tasting food.
no lighter fluid?.. what if the coals are from last year....hold up..gotta cry and throw up a littltt....be ok.. oh dear lord.. . what if it don't work.....
I hardly ever delve into unknown territory without a useful how-to vid. Great foundation for my 1st grill session which by the way was A SUCCESS. Thanks for your help!
I have the feeling you're using one of those BIC Multi-purpose lighter. I got one too. They're real handy to have for BBQing, but damn, they can be hard to get a light. BTW, since you're using a chimney starter, might I suggest Weber's lighter cubes? You'll never use newspaper again ... ever. *You see all that ugly dirty smoke? It's not the charcoal causing it.*
Me too but I still use paper why bother using fossil fuels to light charcoal. I use the burner if I'm in a pinch but I haven't tried it with the weber I'm sure it would work. I just found a Weber charcoal starter in the trash my other charcoal lighter is 15 years old and just starting to get pin holes. The weber seems to work fast even with just three pieces a newspaper!!
I've been using one of these, for years. They are the best. I roll two pieces of newspaper, ring them around the bottom leaving a little air hole in the middle, and light it. By the time you prep the food, the coals are ready to dump into the Weber. A word of advice ... don't use briquettes. Use lump charcoal. It's a more natural charcoal process.
Weber chimeny starter is the best. Great design. It should only take about 10 to 15 min in the start then drop them in the grate and spread them out. By the time you put the grates back on and start cooking the coals will be perfect. Kingsford directions on the back day once the coals are 70% white you should start cooking....Works every time!
A cheap hack if you don’t have starter cubes is give the paper a drizzle of oil(veg, olive, etc). It will slow the burning of the paper and cut down on smoke. Smoke is the sign of fire struggling to burn.
I was hoping to see whether that wire handle that is supposed to aid in pouring by using two hands really does anything. Weber has a slightly smaller version without the wire. You don't show the pour in the video so my question is unanswered.. As for spark lighters, I get the ones from Dollar Tree. No better or worse than the more expensive ones but only a buck.
I have this same one and love it. But caution to anyone doing this in a neighborhood when there is zero wind. Ive smoked out my whole area before, fogging out half the neighborhood. One time i could see the whole yard of a neighbor's house completely smoky, and i felt bad about it. I could barely see their house.
Yeah I use to have 5050 Chargriller and I use to light the coal on the stove for a good five min and finsh the other 10min on the coal grate. Any longer then 5 min you start to damage the finish on the stove and turns into a rust bucket
I had one of those cheap ones, probably lasted a year. Bought the weber brand chimney and was impressed as well. The weber chimneys start the coals faster and don't require as many relights as the cheap ones. Think one of my weber chimneys is going on five years, sits outside and is still solid.
Why would a cheap one need more relights One of the commenter isaid that they had a cheap one that never relight isn't thermodynamics the same in both ?isnt heat ,heat fire, fire and heat rising the same why would you say that? I'm curious or do you even know. What do you have to say for yourself curious minds want to know how you been doing? Hope you're well
@@ilovemalechickens I do believe you're right I think there's some design in those chimney starters that are angled a different way for air flow so thank you for the feedback Good job
Thank you for the post. Was looking at this and lighter fluid and I thought....let me check to see hiw this thing works. Very nice concise demonstration. 👌
Nice job and forget super clean barbecue videos, they are either brand new or unloved. Has long as I get rid of old ash n crap and clean the top grate with a strong wire brush, The a crumpled ball of tin foil I’m good to go. Enjoy xx
The coned wire grate at the bottom of the chimney is the kicker. Unobstructed airflow to the coals. Other brands with holed flat bottom grates limits the air flow
I guess if you want a lot of coals, or you could spread the first batch out and do a second on top. Or you could just put fresh charcoal on top of the already hot coals, but it will smoke more
I have the problem of the load burning down quite a bit before I'm satisfied everything is ignited and burning. I still prefer using these over starting any other way.
I don't know if it's wrong or right but I usually poor mine out before all the fully lit. And then just distribute them around the ones that are fully lit. That usually works pretty well because the charcoals not in hyper burn mode.
I wanted to know if it is better to put the hot charcoals in the grill first then put additional charcoal OR put some charcoal in the grill and then put the hot charcoal on top of the non-hot charcoals?
Personally, I put down hot charcoal first and then add some additional charcoal on top of it. I have no idea if that's the "proper" method or not, but it seems to work just fine for me.
Longer burn: lit charcoal on top. Shorter burn: lit charcoal on bottom. Hint: it always takes longer for fire to burn downard than upward. Both methods have their advantages depending on how you want to smoke or grill foods
I wouldn't think so, unless you fit a longer burning fuel source underneath it instead of paper. Then? Maybe. But there's not a lot of space under there. The point of the charcoal chimney is that the original source of heat (the paper) burns out fairly quickly, but lights the lowest-most charcoal. From there, that charcoal keeps generating heat which lights more of the charcoal, and so on and so forth until they're all hot. The difference with stones is, they don't continue to emit greater heat once the original source that heated them up is gone. Charcoal is a fuel source in and of itself - stones simply absorb heat provided to them and then radiate that heat back out until they are cool again. Hope that helps!
I'm about to use my new Webber chimney starter in few minutes, w my Weber grill. Will that one container of briquettes in the starter be enough to cook 3-4 burger patties? Hate to use not too little or too much charcoal. Thanks, e.
ryan pitre this is exactly why i clicked your video. Just bought one of these kuz it's all they had. Was shocked the price was so high and confused what that metal bar was in the way for. Thanks!
I used to use regular charcoal and a blow dryer. I can make the charcoal ready faster then this chimney starter...! Then I got rid of my both grills after reading about carbon monoxide and all other chemicals sticking on the food and how we suppose to actually cook with the heat not actual fire etc... I eat less meat and eat lighter because when I would burn the grill omg.... mushrooms, peppers, corn, meat, chicken, potato dipped in charcoal, hallumi cheese.... a to z.... even make tea or turkish coffee.... not anymore...
Have to try this starter out I have a cheap one I bought at Walmart and sometimes it takes 30 min or more to light charcoal. If I use lump wood charcoal even longer.
Been watching a ton of these videos this morning and yours is one of the clearest, in terms of what you're saying, picture, sound, and the burn too. Thanks!
Well, thanks Steve! Glad to be of help.
We love ours and just got the fire starting lighting cubes works even better
I have found it is better to spread the coals out a little before the flames get to the top and all of them are bright red. The coals will light more evenly, and the ones at the top that don't get red in the chimney will ash over within a couple minutes of spreading them usually, and the coals will last a good bit longer.
bert H Thanks for the tip! I'll have to give that a shot next time.
bert H I don't know if this is safe but I was using an electric coal starter element inside on top of opening in the charcoals, made sure the handle was outside and it got the coals going pretty quick. Again this may not be real safe, more or less an experiment on my part.
+Only1Truth Electric Charcoal Starters are indeed safe. UL listed.
Now of course, electric starters require basic common sense. Like finishing off a pint of Jim Beam & falling asleep while the starter sits burning, thus, causing a 4 alarm fire. If you get my drift!
I do the same thing
Don't put it on your cooking grate, put it on the charcoal grate.
I typically do, but it's harder to get a video with it down there. So for the purposes of showing how it worked, I lit it on the cooking grates. But good catch!
He's a DUMBASS......HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
James Bradley Eat shit, Bradley.
@@jev0015 That was uncalled for. Please be respectful of individuals, no matter how brilliant you think your experience is. I'm sure its stellar given your choice of words. And, btw I took away a positive review & demo from Gadget Geek.
Actually it makes zero difference
BEST thing ever to start Charcoal.... NEVER use starting fluid unless you like the flavor of Starter Fluid on your food.
I'm curious if you noticed different results with different newspaper sheets. Usually I'd use three full sheets and it would take about 20 min 'til ready. Sometimes the paper didn't work as well. I'm thinking that highly color inked paper didn't work as well as plain black type sheets. I'm prefering the Weber lighter cubes-one seems to work very well and there is no ash flying all over and they are relatively cheap and 100% reliable.
Great video. I was almost certain I was going to get a propane grill. Mostly cause propane grills heat up faster and you have to constantly attend to the charcoal when trying to get it hot. Thoufh, to me charcoal grills give out better taste. Until I saw this device. I'm just about sold on getting a charcoal grill.
Propane does heat up faster. It aldo dries out your food quicker, and over time is more costly to operate having to replace burners ect.
Wish you had properly use the handle with the controller to guide proper way of pouring it out.
Awesome video.
Use wax cubes or tumbleweeds to start fire
Didn't show pouring out the hot coals - thats the tricky, dangerous part.
what is the purpose of the metal wire around the handle?
It's actually a handle that can swing forward. That way you can pour with two hands for better control.
All Stores Please lower the price of all Military and Local for all brands of the Charcoal Starter Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$$ The Whole World Now pray
Are these basically used to save on lighter fluid? I just dont see the need?
NEVER use lighter fluid mate, nor the "easy light" briquettes. They leave a vile taste in all you grill.
There's nothing wrong with lighter fluid or match light charcoal, these chimneys make it much faster and easy to light than fluid. I will never go back to using lighter fluid blue that I use one of these.
Food tastes like fluid even if you burn it all off never complete get rid of fluid taste on the food. Also you do save money because you don't have to buy fluid again, but I use more for better tasting food.
You've never wanted to grill but found yourself out of lighter fluid?
no lighter fluid?.. what if the coals are from last year....hold up..gotta cry and throw up a littltt....be ok..
oh dear lord.. .
what if it don't work.....
I hardly ever delve into unknown territory without a useful how-to vid. Great foundation for my 1st grill session which by the way was A SUCCESS. Thanks for your help!
I have the feeling you're using one of those BIC Multi-purpose lighter. I got one too. They're real handy to have for BBQing, but damn, they can be hard to get a light.
BTW, since you're using a chimney starter, might I suggest Weber's lighter cubes? You'll never use newspaper again ... ever. *You see all that ugly dirty smoke? It's not the charcoal causing it.*
Nice tip!
Me too but I still use paper why bother using fossil fuels to light charcoal. I use the burner if I'm in a pinch but I haven't tried it with the weber I'm sure it would work. I just found a Weber charcoal starter in the trash my other charcoal lighter is 15 years old and just starting to get pin holes. The weber seems to work fast even with just three pieces a newspaper!!
@@stevewarrington8992 the cubes are made of paraffin wax, not fossil fuels...
@@chriscook5613 paraffin is a petroleum wax...
I've been using one of these, for years.
They are the best. I roll two pieces of newspaper, ring them around the bottom leaving a little air hole in the middle, and light it.
By the time you prep the food, the coals are ready to dump into the Weber.
A word of advice ... don't use briquettes. Use lump charcoal. It's a more natural charcoal process.
yeah i used briquettes yesterday and it was a bowl of molten lava and sparks. go with lump charcoal and don't overdo the fuel at the bottom.
Weber chimeny starter is the best. Great design. It should only take about 10 to 15 min in the start then drop them in the grate and spread them out. By the time you put the grates back on and start cooking the coals will be perfect. Kingsford directions on the back day once the coals are 70% white you should start cooking....Works every time!
Use starter qubes instead of paper. They dont create that much smoke and are more effective.
Honstly... I will be doing this next time as I had to relight so many times and took forever to light the coals
A cheap hack if you don’t have starter cubes is give the paper a drizzle of oil(veg, olive, etc). It will slow the burning of the paper and cut down on smoke. Smoke is the sign of fire struggling to burn.
Tried this method but I had trouble finding a newspaper to start the coals
Pick up a free auto trader at a gas station. Lots of paper in one of those.
I was hoping to see whether that wire handle that is supposed to aid in pouring by using two hands really does anything. Weber has a slightly smaller version without the wire. You don't show the pour in the video so my question is unanswered.. As for spark lighters, I get the ones from Dollar Tree. No better or worse than the more expensive ones but only a buck.
0:20 'All I'm gonna do is'
...Experience the same thing every user of a Stick Lighter deals with, every time they use a Stick Lighter. LOL
Such a funny and painfully accurate experience, glad Were alone
Would it be better to buy 2 of them because putting coal on top of theses will take longer?
I have this same one and love it. But caution to anyone doing this in a neighborhood when there is zero wind. Ive smoked out my whole area before, fogging out half the neighborhood. One time i could see the whole yard of a neighbor's house completely smoky, and i felt bad about it. I could barely see their house.
I just bought one and wanted to see how you pour the coals out.
Questions. I have a dual 50/50 Chargriller. Could I just start this over the propane side instead of using paper?
Yeah I use to have 5050 Chargriller and I use to light the coal on the stove for a good five min and finsh the other 10min on the coal grate. Any longer then 5 min you start to damage the finish on the stove and turns into a rust bucket
Sure can.
Excellent review. Straight to the point no fluff. Love it
...simple straight forward instructions...thank you...
I had one of those cheap ones, probably lasted a year. Bought the weber brand chimney and was impressed as well. The weber chimneys start the coals faster and don't require as many relights as the cheap ones. Think one of my weber chimneys is going on five years, sits outside and is still solid.
I have a Weber chimney on the way, currently using a cheapo but have never had to relight it.
Why would a cheap one need more relights One of the commenter isaid that they had a cheap one that never relight isn't thermodynamics the same in both ?isnt heat ,heat fire, fire and heat rising the same why would you say that? I'm curious or do you even know. What do you have to say for yourself curious minds want to know how you been doing? Hope you're well
@@Iambriangregorymaybe the way the air holes are designed on the Weber? Creates more efficient heating?
@@ilovemalechickens I do believe you're right I think there's some design in those chimney starters that are angled a different way for air flow so thank you for the feedback Good job
@@Iambriangregory I'm shocked to have such a pleasant interaction in a TH-cam comment thread. Thank you
Came here hoping to find out what the bar is for that sort of hangs over the handle. Seems kind of useless.
Grip for your front hand that can fold out of the way if you don't want to use it. Wear a mitt if you do ... gets hot up there!
It's not useless.
Now get a starter for the lighter 😂😂😂
Thanks for the review brother. My girl ordered this and had no clue what it was for. This helped out alot.
Your girl likes to spend money
Thank you for the post. Was looking at this and lighter fluid and I thought....let me check to see hiw this thing works. Very nice concise demonstration. 👌
Nice job and forget super clean barbecue videos, they are either brand new or unloved. Has long as I get rid of old ash n crap and clean the top grate with a strong wire brush, The a crumpled ball of tin foil I’m good to go. Enjoy xx
The coned wire grate at the bottom of the chimney is the kicker. Unobstructed airflow to the coals. Other brands with holed flat bottom grates limits the air flow
Looks like you have the Char Griller gas/charcoal with side burner grill. How do you like it? I just literally put mine together today.
best invention ever😅
Shitty stick lighter. I feel your pain brother.
Ive always had luck with the dollar store stick lighters
Thanks for video Looking forward to using when Scottish weather gets a bit better !!
How many peaces of news paper did u pit underneath
I used some packing paper, I believe, but probably about 3 newspaper pieces worth.
Cool thanks
Thank you 😊
My charcoal never gets that hot... nor do the flames go all the way up. Any tips?
Bad charcoal or moisture in it
I have one of these thanks for the video!!
Great. Which brand charcoal are you using?
Kingsford Original, IIRC
I have a 33 inch grill would it be better to buy two of these an light them at the same time?
I guess if you want a lot of coals, or you could spread the first batch out and do a second on top.
Or you could just put fresh charcoal on top of the already hot coals, but it will smoke more
what kind of charcoal do you use?
It was just standard Kingsford.
Buy yourself a Weber lighter first haha. Great video by the way
Haha, you aren't lying! That stick lighter was the pits. And thanks!
I have the problem of the load burning down quite a bit before I'm satisfied everything is ignited and burning. I still prefer using these over starting any other way.
I don't know if it's wrong or right but I usually poor mine out before all the fully lit. And then just distribute them around the ones that are fully lit. That usually works pretty well because the charcoals not in hyper burn mode.
@@stevewarrington8992 that's what i do to make the charcoal last
I wanted to know if it is better to put the hot charcoals in the grill first then put additional charcoal OR put some charcoal in the grill and then put the hot charcoal on top of the non-hot charcoals?
Personally, I put down hot charcoal first and then add some additional charcoal on top of it. I have no idea if that's the "proper" method or not, but it seems to work just fine for me.
Longer burn: lit charcoal on top. Shorter burn: lit charcoal on bottom.
Hint: it always takes longer for fire to burn downard than upward.
Both methods have their advantages depending on how you want to smoke or grill foods
Wat type of charcoal did u used
Regular Kingsford in the blue and white bag
Cool product thanks for the video.
Do you know the maximum temperature it reaches too?
Charcoal burns at around 1100° C, or 2010°F
Hey there, I was wondering if this would be good to use for rocks/stones?
I wouldn't think so, unless you fit a longer burning fuel source underneath it instead of paper. Then? Maybe. But there's not a lot of space under there. The point of the charcoal chimney is that the original source of heat (the paper) burns out fairly quickly, but lights the lowest-most charcoal. From there, that charcoal keeps generating heat which lights more of the charcoal, and so on and so forth until they're all hot.
The difference with stones is, they don't continue to emit greater heat once the original source that heated them up is gone. Charcoal is a fuel source in and of itself - stones simply absorb heat provided to them and then radiate that heat back out until they are cool again. Hope that helps!
Gadget Geek I see, thank you very much
+JOAX55 A little late now but, I bet you could do newspaper, a small layer of coals, then the stones.
I'm about to use my new Webber chimney starter in few minutes, w my Weber grill. Will that one container of briquettes in the starter be enough to cook 3-4 burger patties? Hate to use not too little or too much charcoal. Thanks, e.
Sorry for the late response , but it should! As you hopefully found out.
What in the world is the metal handle thing used for? The one that moves,and gets in the way?
Hold that one with one hand, and use your other on the stationary handle. Makes it easier to control while dumping out. I'd highly recommend gloves!
ryan pitre this is exactly why i clicked your video. Just bought one of these kuz it's all they had. Was shocked the price was so high and confused what that metal bar was in the way for. Thanks!
Mine was $13 at Lowe's, how much did they got you for?
excuse my misunderstanding if i am missing something
why do i need this tool to start with?
i could just start it in the charcoal grill directly !
sariharis With this you don't need lighter fluid.
I used to use regular charcoal and a blow dryer. I can make the charcoal ready faster then this chimney starter...! Then I got rid of my both grills after reading about carbon monoxide and all other chemicals sticking on the food and how we suppose to actually cook with the heat not actual fire etc... I eat less meat and eat lighter because when I would burn the grill omg.... mushrooms, peppers, corn, meat, chicken, potato dipped in charcoal, hallumi cheese.... a to z.... even make tea or turkish coffee.... not anymore...
Have to try this starter out I have a cheap one I bought at Walmart and sometimes it takes 30 min or more to light charcoal. If I use lump wood charcoal even longer.
Got the compact one, a do a vid soon.
I simply put charcoal on the charcoal grate - light it up with charcoal lighter fluid and then drink beer while I wait for the coals to heat up.
with this item, you just need to drink faster
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ahh, the lovely taste of lighter fluid. A staple of PBR grilling cuisine 😉🤮
would this work for lump charcoal as well?
Yes, works great.
Gadget Geek awesome, thanks for the reply