Kingsford Competiton, where have you been hiding all my life?

SuburbSlicker said:

So enough people raving about it on here finally convinced me to go out and buy a couple of bags of Kingsford Competition over the weekend. I had been using Kingsford Blue for years, usually buying a big load near Memorial Day and using it up during the year. I use lump in my COS, but briquettes in the WSM. I was a little hesitant at $10 a bag, but I wanted to try it (not all that easy to find, btw). I was doing a 12lb. brisky and I bought two bags.

Wow! Great stuff! I used a little more than I expected (about a bag and a third/half) for about 11 hours. Ambient weather was about 60-70 deg with moderate humidity. Fairly good breeze most of the day.

The thing was, once I dialed the smoker in at about 271 consistently, it just sat and sat and sat at that temp (it should be noted that I do have a Pitmaster IQ 110). But even with the temp control, I've never been able to dial a regular blue bag in like that.

And, as others have noted, the ash production is a lot less. It's just great stuff. Now I may try it in the COS to see how it acts in there. If I could only find a cheaper source.

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SuburbSlicker said:

The size of the 22.5 WSM charcoal ring is probably about 18 inches which would give you around 56.5 square inches of area. The 22 inch Weber kettle is probably around the same size, maybe a little bit smaller. But for math purposes, we'll assume they hold roughly the same amount of charcoal.

I put about 8 pounds in the WSM, used a pound in the chimney and I saved a couple of pounds for later in the day. I ended up using those two pounds around 8:30 a.m. (Started fire at 3:45 a.m.) and went to church.

I had to put another 3 to 4 pounds (probably a little overkill) on around noon because temps were dropping pretty rapidly at that point. 225 at noon and 216 a few minutes later.

So I'm betting you could approximate about the same burn rate using a 22-inch kettle. I was using an ATC. If you're not, or if the weather was different, you may have different results. By adding the extra 3-4 lbs at noon, I probably bought another 5 or 6 hours of cook time even though I only needed about 3.5.

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