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Learn everything you need to know to fire up and grill like a pro. Explore our easy-to-follow instructional videos to step up your grilling game and improve your charcoal grilling technique. From Cowboy briquets and lump to chips and chunks, we have all the info you need to get started. For more how to videos check out our recipes.
Ever wondered what's the real deal between charcoal briquets, lump charcoal, and charcoal pellets? Cowboy pitmaster, @JonathanBBQ breaks it down for us, explaining why and when he uses each and diving deep into the BBQ fuel face-off.
Have you tried lump charcoal? Not sure what it is or how to use it? We're talking about how lump charcoal is made, what it's made from, how to light it, store it, and how to cook with it. When it comes to clean BBQ fuel with no additives or fillers, Cowboy Charocal is the best.
Watch Cowboy Ambassador Christie Vanover show and explain all about lump charcoal, including what it is, how to light it and how to cook with it. Lump charcoal is one of the most popular types of charcoal used on the BBQ competition circuit, but you don’t have to be a competitive pitmaster to add this authentic wood flavor to your barbecue foods.
Made from real kiln-dried hardwood, whether it's our signature hardwood or our oak and hickory hardwood lump charcoal. Lump charcoal lights faster, burns hotter, leaves less ash than briquets, and can hold a steady neutral heat for longer smoked recipes too.
Ever wondered what the trick is to get a nice even temperature and glowing bed of coals in your pizza oven perfect for wood-fired cooking? A good fire needs two things; fuel, and good airflow. Learn how to build and start a fire in your pizza oven with just a couple of wood logs with step-by-step instructions.
Cowboy Charcoal Hardwood Briquets are all made of real wood, not packed with fillers or binders. Here's everything you need to know about charcoal briquets so you can pick the right fuel for your grill and smoker every time! This is the ultimate guide to using charcoal briquets.
To quickly and easily light your charcoal, arrange a chimney filled with Cowboy lump or briquets and place it over Cowboy Woven Wood firestarters. Light the starter and let the charcoal chimney work its magic. In about 10-15 minutes, that charcoal will be almost ashed over, and ready to be arranged in your grill. This is how to light your charcoal!
Watch the video to learn how to build a 2-zone fire for direct and indirect grilling. Sear over direct heat (hot side of the grill) or slow smoke over indirect (cooler side of the grill) by piling Cowboy lump charcoal to one side of the grill for maximum control.
Bring a whole new level of flavor to your BBQ with wood chips. We show you how to use wood chips on a gas grill or over charcoal to add more flavor to whatever you're cooking. Here is the ultimate guide for how to use wood chips to get authentic barbecue flavor!
Wood chips are the most versatile tool for barbecue flavor! Watch how to add wood chips directly to hot charcoal, and how to build a foil packet to make a smoker box for any grill. Fold the wood chips in foil, poke a few holes, and place the packet of wood chips on the grill grates and allow them to start to smoke before adding your food to the grill.
Wood chunks are a great choice for that classic BBQ flavor. Add the wood directly to the hot coals. Once the wood ignites and the smoke is clean and wispy, you're ready to grill. There's no need to soak your wood chunks. Now the hard part, picking the wood flavor you want to use! Which is it going to be?
What are wood chunks? And how do you use them in grilling and smoking? Cowboy wood chunks are kiln dried and the perfect fuel for adding authentic smoked barbecue flavor to your recipes. Here's the ultimate guide for grilling and smoking with wood chunks.
Watch the video and learn about the different BBQ fuel types, lump and briquets.