I Grilled a Steak With 35 Year Old Charcoal
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2022
- Can you use old charcoal? What about REALLY OLD charcoal? I've had that question for a while and my neighbor gave me a couple of bags of 35 year old charcoal and I had to find out. Some people say that charcoal goes bad after a year or two, but this charcoal was kept in a dry climate and protected from the elements. The bag wasn't faded and looked as good as new. I cracked open the bag, compared the differences between it and charcoal today, and grilled up a couple of New York Strip steaks for a test. YUM!
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I was turned 17 years old in 1987 and was junior in high school. I recall when Kingsford changed the formula and design of thier briquettes in ‘06. Not sure I have forgiven them yet. Less mass, charged more.
Great experiment. Yes as I recall food used to taste better with the old stuff.
Oh man, I love this guy ... he lives in my head when I grill...
Thank you for this great presentation.... Im happy if what I grill is eatable..
That's the goal! At least the steaks weren't well done! Thanks for the kind words.
I like and use Kingsford primarily because of its price, availability, and ease of use. Recently I bought a bag of B&B briquettes and I like it. I’ve found with the B&B you get clean smoke quicker and a better taste. Have to watch the vent settings closely though as the B&B will get HOT quickly. For the price difference is the B&B worth it? Eh..I’ll probably stick primarily with the Kingsford
Availability is a huge plus. I've heard great things about B&B, but haven't found it locally. You can find blue bag Kingsford anywhere.
The ash looks like they are two different colors as well. LOL... thumbnail issues... gets you everytime.
It wasn't the first time I did that. I'm sure it won't be the last either.
The older older one is probably drier so it burns faster, hotter, with less smoke.
Thank you very much for sharing so much great content! I appreciate you and the cool videos
Glad you like them!
Cool test thanks for sharing and good presentation
Thanks! It's not every day that you get 35 year old charcoal!
Thanks for opening up the bag and testing it out. If it was me, I would have probably just kept it like an antique or something haha
To be fair . . . he gave me two bags and the other one is still sealed!
@@GrillTopExperience nice!
Interesting stuff.
I've never used charcoal over fifteen years old. But I've used some very old salt, and water.
Me either, until now! It was cool get my hands on a bag though.
Please keep up the videos, you have an awesome chanceel
Thanks! I'll keep them coming!
Was just gifted a bag of Kingsford mesquite that's about 30yo. Perfect timing to watch this video.
I'm interested if you have a similar experience!
@@GrillTopExperience I have a small pile going in my 30yo weber knockoff. I cleaned it and now have a no-food grill going to burn off the remaining crud. The 30yo Kingsford mesquite is burning just fine. It has a lot of wood shavings embedded and I've never seen such an amount of smoke. It's def not charcoal you want to use just by itself, unless you really enjoy that campfire taste. Heck, I've had literal campfires that weren't this smokey. After being outside for 5 minutes lighting it, when I came in my wife wouldn't get within 15 feet of me. I imagine the newer ones don't smoke this much? Or maybe it was never meant to be used just by itself? I'm a lump charcoal man, so this is my first time using briquets of any type.
The worst charcoal briquettes I have tried was flame glo original, I lit the charcoal chimney as usual and walked in the house to wait as usually about 5 minutes later the smell was so bad inside my house I thought I had started a forest fire! It was smoking like crazy and smelled horrible!
My “old vs new” is memory only. I have used gas for many years and just recently reacquired a Webber Kettle. All that to saw I thought the smell of the newer charcoal was very different (chemical forward?) out of the bad and while lighting. My steaks and burgers didn’t have the lighter fluid taste I was half expecting. Good “charcoal taste.”
I didn't mention it in the video, but there is a different smell. When I walked outside, I had a where am I moment and had flashbacks of charcoal cooks long ago. Both of them ended up cooking well even though the new stuff has more ignition smoke.
Nice! As a follow up, maybe a test like this with the most popular charcoal. B&B (oak and hickory) Kingsford (blue bag and all natural) and Royal Oak!
I've heard really good things about B&B from a bunch of people. I might have to give that a go. Thanks for the tip!
@@GrillTopExperience that would be a good test.
@@GrillTopExperience There is no B&B here in Canada where I live, so I turned to lump charcoal instead. But B&B seems the best briquettes out there for steady temperature.
Hey what are those white cubes you put in called? Do they replace the need for a chimney?
Those are Weber lighter cubes. I still use them with a chimney instead of paper. I didn't use a chimney in this video because I only have one and needed to light two fires.
Haha one thing this video shows that they always used 2x20 packs up until 2022. Only now have they changed it and for white bag the best you can get is 2x16 and 2x18 for competition
Shrinkflation makes me sad! They used to put the 2 packs on a good sale too.
Where abouts are you in the states?
I live in Utah.
Today's "twin" packs are 18lbs each... not like the old 40lbs. They were 20lbs pre pandemic. Plus, today's sale prices are nowhere the old $0.25 a pound on 20lb twin packs.
I miss the two for $10 sales!
@@GrillTopExperience Yeah, now its a trade off to get cheap Royal Oaks at Wallyworld or questionable Mexican mesquite lump or higher priced Kingsford for budget grilling. I sttill prefer Kingsford for everyday grilling... but it prob takes 33% more with their latest version vs five years ago.