can you use wood,as well as charcoal?
511801
Yes you can, I have used mainly charcoal and mix it with about 15% of flavored woods. Hope this helps
511802
Never use charcoal or lighter fluid, use royal oak and a starter chimney. Buy the book "Low and Slow", follow the directions and your friends will think you have been smoking meat your whole life.
511803
I have not in my 18.5, as I only used charcoal. I do add small chunks of Apple, Hickory, etc. to add smoke flavor, but the main fuel is charcoal.
511804
When in the smoking configuration, you have to cook with charcoal. Only charcoal will hold the fire long and cool enough to get the job done. Wood can be added to the coal fire for the sake of smoking the food [and should be!]. I have used mesquite, hickory, apple, cherry...etc. If you buy bags of wood for smoking, I recommend you use chunks instead of chips. You get a longer, smoldering, smoky burn that way. If you set the unit up in the grilling configuration, you can cook with wood if you prefer campfire type grilling, as I do.
688774
Yes, you can use your own firewood but I would not recommend this firepit. It is not sturdy and is smaller than it looks.
250623
We have not tried that, but I believe that wood burns differently than the charcoal. I think you could use smoking chips, the kind you wet and throw on the coals, but I don't think wood is recommended.
869219
Yes, you can. I advise wood first and chunk charcoal. Once flame down, and coals all burning, place top back on chimmea. This ensures enough heat for baking.
2274100
I have never tried it, but if you put two together in the middle and put the charcoal around it you can achieve much the same thing.
1677466
You can use any kind of charcoal you want. I use the cheapest stuff they sell with lighter fluid because the fumes never touch the meat.
1660694
You could but it would take a bit longer to cook seeing as the charcoal is at the bottom. You can remove the top. It is really made for smoking I would not suggest it. The exterior may not handle all of the smoke..
2141529
I have used wood, a charcoal bricket, a tea light and an alchol burner. all have boiled water very well. so yes you can use other fuels with it.
1252436
I would only use charcoal because in the video it specifies "charcoal grill." If you prefer wood, I would Google a wood chip grill.
1647944
Yes you can. You will need to put a can or something to keep the wood in though so the heat and flame can be concentrated. It looks like the metal is coated in Zinc to make it rust resistsant so I would not build a fire in the thing unless you want zinc poisoning.
1258295
You can, but you will use a lot of Abatron. You could mix wood chips in with it, but again very pricy.
1381128
Yes, you just need to make the woodstove hot enough for what you want to cook. A hot campfire is ok, but smoke might become a problem.
2104805
You can use wood but I don't know why you would bother. A 12-14 pound of even the cheapest self-lighting charcoal will last up to 4 and 1/2 hours, which is more than enough to cook even the largest butts or briskets you can fit inside it. I can imagine starting it with wood and adding the charcoal, but not the other way around as wood in the size you need to fit the Orion would burn down too quickly.
1252438
You can add small pieces of wood but a small (18") round grill is not built for wood use instead of charcoal.
899244
You can use small hardwood chunks as long as they fit into the burn chamber. You can buy these chips on Amazon or at most retailers (Walmart, Home Depot, etc.) in the grill accessory area. The hardwood chunks produce as much heat as the compressed sawdust pucks that come with the unit.
337972
They do the heating. I think you could use them with charcoal, but they aren't designed that way. You can't soak them or they turn into dust. For coal or gas i would buy lump wood.
1206781
No; however I see no reason why it couldn't be used on either charcoal or on a wood fire ( camping). Just clean it well, after use.