Buy them a charcoal chimney and 86 the starter fluid. Link: http://www.weberstuff.com/webcharchims.html

Buy a starter chimney. Weber’s is probably the best. Then use your air inlet damper on the grill to regulate the temperature. Add more charcoal (lit preferably) if you need to cook longer than your initial load of charcoal...

thinking along these lines, I HIGHLY recommend a chimney starter instead of using lighter fluid. Cheaper, better taste, better for the environment.

had one of those chimney-style charcoal starters, it would be a btu beast (punch a few holes in the top with a church key for drafting). Obviously, this is an outdoor-only app. (CO poisoning is not good eats!)

'd recommend both. If you go for charcoal to get the flavor, I recommend the following: Don’t use Kingsford or other charcoal briquets – use hardwood charcoal that isn’t full of chemicals, burns hotter, and leaves...

a Weber chimney starter just last weekend. And when that sucker got my Lazzari mesquite charcoals ready in a dynamic display of jet engine and vortex effects to produce some hot glowing coals within 10 short minutes using no icky...

and bottom vents. Which vents “should” work the best? My second question is how long should I let the charcoals sit in the grill before I start cooking? I use a chimney starter and they probably stay in there for about...

cooking grate so that you can add coals more easily. The fire: Soak hickory chunks (not chips) for at least 3 hours. I soak them over night. Light about 25 charcols using a chimney starter. If you don’t have a chimney, get...

Alton Brown of “Good Eats” on the Food Network cooked his over a home made jet engine. He took one of those chimney charcoal starters, filled it with charcoal and lit it, then instead of dumping the coals into a...

What you are looking for is natural “lump” charcoal. It’s made the old fashioned way, simply burning wood (in the absence of air) until charcoal remains. If you use that in combination with a chimney starter,...

-cool handle (like with my well-worn chimney starter), and if you have to leave the handle sticking out you can’t put the lid back on right. There is a simple way to keep fish from sticking to your grill. Just before you put...

't miss the available rotisserie, I just use a beer can for chicken, and offset coals for roasts. The 22.5"Gold is $150 at Appliance Canada http://www.weber.com/grills/?glid=4&mid=24 The Weber chimney starter works very well, and...

Thanks, all. I had this delicious steak tonight for dinner (my first piece of grassfed beef, I might add, though I’ve eaten grassfed buffalo quite a few times). I let the lump charcoal heat up in the chimney starter and put...

I wouldn’t buy a used one. It may have been left out in the rain or been handled roughly and have small cracks in the gas lines which could lead to a fire. Buy a small weber like the smoky joe and a chimney starter, use...

starter The paper doesn’t burn up until the oil’s spent, and you get a blazing chimney full of coals in 5 minutes! Give it a try. www.professorsalt.com