Afternoon Colin,

I use Australian heat beads, and get them from Dawsons BBQ World. I buy quite a few bags, and get free delivery. They can last for around 4 hours on the Cobb, and 7-8 beads easily does a three course meal. On Father’s day, I cooked a 2Kg boneless lamb leg joint in 2.5 hours, and it was perfect.
Let me know if you want to borrow a bag to try them, and I’m sure we can sort meeting up.

Cheers Mark

We've always used the cobblestones, although at times with varying results as they change the recipe!! You wont find any at the moment though as everywhere is out of stock, looking like no supply now until September at the earliest. We recently bought some ZIP coconut shell briquettes - the cobblestones are made from coconut shell. They seem to get nice and hot and last a good amount of time, not used them to cook a roast yet though.

Buy yourself one of these, you wont regret it!! Best lighter I've got, I also own a smaller Turboflame, but this stick one lives in the Cobb.

https://www.turboflame.co.uk/index.php/p.../turbostik.html

We had a Cobb for 15 years bit like triggers broom! Its had 3 outer cases as original were of a thermoplastic material which would eventually crack due to the heat. Have now the same as supplied today. We are on our 3rd grill plate as others lost the non stick finish. Saying that we have always used the australian heatbeads as fuel. 7-8 beads will give 3 hours cooking time. You can buy at the Range £6.99bag 4 kilos. My only gripe is they are a bugger to clean. Mrs Nut did buy some liners that go inside the trough but they not that good. Its not a BBQ as such more a charcoal oven but if you leave lid off cooking and flavour the coals its almost the same .

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I'm getting a box of cobbstones with the cobb, so I'll buy a 4kg bag of the heatbeads, looks about £8 plus p+p and readily available.
Do you need to get anything in particular to light either of these?

Colin

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