Hardwood Craft Chunk Charcoal - 22 lb bag

I prefer to smoke things low and slow, and MeatHead charcoal the best I've found. It is a little hard to keep the temperature below 200 in a Green Egg, but it is well worth the trouble for superb smoked salmon, ribs, pork chops, grilled chicken, you name it. I have yet to try it with smoked brisket but plan to try that next.

Best lump charcoal I’ve ever used!!

Very good product, I may start using it for competition grilling and bbq.

I have tried them all and finally settled on “JD” (actual name intentionally omitted) charcoal for its consistency and ability to burn. I was at our local hardware store and noticed Meat Head’s bag had a “Headquartered in GA logo” and contained 2lbs more than most brands and even 5lbs in one case for roughly the same price. As a Georgian, this was a no brainer purchase. The charcoal burns as advertised, sizing is consistent and NO trash in the bag at all. Like the review below, I did a 13 hour cook at 250 (cook temped average 252) on my large BGE and was surprised with the amount of coal left.

Great product! Do not change a thing. Happy to have a new favorite. Go Dawgs!!

Just like they said, very, very controllable in a BGE XL. I had no problem maintaining a 250F temperature for 12 hours smoking a 15 lb packer brisket (trimmed to 10). I had plenty of charcoal left at the end. It was never this easy to control the temperature with other brand lump charcoal. You really don’t need a fancy temperature controller if you use Meat Head. This is now my “go-to” charcoal if I need low and slow performance.

Brisket tasted good too and I had decent smoke rings. It does burn clean like they claim. I highly recommend.