For the first time this weekend, I was forced to resort to briquettes rather than my usual fuel of choice lumpwood charcoal. My bad as I thought I had enough charcoal in reserve and, discovering I had not, had to dash out to the local supermarket to replenish. No quality charcoal left only bags of briquettes.
Despite a longer ignition period than I was used to, I was pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of the briquettes. I found that they gave me a much extended cooking time over lumpwood.
Gas is still a no for me but I could easily be converted to the future use of briquettes. BBQ'd duck (with a piri piri dry rub) for the first time this weekend - very tasty and probably as a direct result of the amount of smoke generated by the huge amount of fat that dripped onto the coals.
Have to start to prep the menu for another extravaganza this coming weekend (in between popping out to see what is happening at RIAT).