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I picked up a bag of this from a local shop over the weekend and it seems that a lot of it is quite small pieces and there's a lot of dust in the bag. Does this mean the shop has manhandled the bag? It's the only place around that I've seen stocking restaurant grade so maybe I need to ask them when they get more delivered and try and collect it before they smash the crap out of it.

You normally get a mix of sizes, I would suspect this has suffered a bit of manhandling.

i know BigK themselves are out of ACH15 for 'a few weeks'

so ive had to order Heat Beads instead

BigK are saying to use the RCH15, the pieces aren't as big and more twig like but it burns hot and long once lot similar to the ACH15.

I've had decent results with the standard Big K stuff but wanted to try restaurant grade because I saw some. The dust from it being smashed around gave off a lot of white smoke so I might try and filter out the big bits from this bag

gingerchris wrote:I've had decent results with the standard Big K stuff but wanted to try restaurant grade because I saw some. The dust from it being smashed around gave off a lot of white smoke so I might try and filter out the big bits from this bag

Quite a lot of people sort in to three piles, big, medium and small, this leaves a pile of dust behind, personally I find that a bit OCD but if you find it helps then go for it. The easiest and least mess approach is to pick the charcoal out of the bag rather than tip it in

Hi gingerchris, I had the same impression on the ACH15 stuff (I.e. Looked quite small chunks on the 2 bags I ordered from bigk direct) - but actually the cook with the stuff is a lot better than larger chunks using other companies I've tried so i'll stick with big k for next time.


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