royal oak/cowboy lump

[redtab78]

I have read alot on here about using Royal Oak....and my question is this:

is Royal Oak briquette's (red bag, yellow letters, and spanish on one side of the bag, english on the other) the good stuff, or is there a royal oak lump?

also...I found the Royal Oak briquette's at $6.49 9lb bag, and the cowboy lump at $4.37 at Lowe's...is this a good price?

I ended up with 3 bags of the cowboy lump, mostly because all the talk about using lump, and not knowing whether or not the Royal Oak briquettes was what ever body was refferring too...

 

[ds7662]

Are you sure that was $6.47 for a 9lb bag of royal oak? I just bought a bag at lowes(only place that carries royal oak around here) at it was the same price for a 20lb bag. If the price is for a 9lb bag then I don't think it is a great deal.
The Cowboy lump I bought several (for the price you listed) of b/c the only other lump choice around is Kingsford and it cost more. The Cowboy is cheaper and you get more of it but it seems like it burns mighty quick.

 

[geek with fire]

I've never used RO Briquettes, but do use their lump. Actually since I've started using lump, I can tell when briquettes are used, and don't care for it. Sidebar story: My wife and I were in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and ate at the Weber grill restaurant. Good food, but I could taste a slight bitter flavor that I'm sure was from briquettes (maybe I'm just looney!). Anyhow, I think the RO lump here in the middle Missouri Wally World is a 9 lb bag and is about $6 bucks. The cowboy lump (not sure of the weight) is about the same size of bag, but I find it to burn twice as fast as RO.

 

[redtab78]

I'm pretty sure it was 9lbs...it was the exact same size as the cowboy lump...but it did weigh significantly more...

 

[ds7662]

That was 20lbs then. That is not a bad price. It is actually cheaper than Kingsford. Like I said I just bought the same things at Lowes this past weekend.
Try a bag of each and see what you like and how it works in your smoker.

 

[fatback joe]

Red,

Everything you wanted to know about lump

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lump.htm

Especially want to look at the reviews.

FWIW Personally, I don't care for Cowboy lump, but I would still use it over the RO Bricks...........it has very low burn time (as you found out).