Click here to learn how to start a charcoal grill and make sure you can enjoy the incomparable flavor of charcoal any night of the week! ... Step 1: Arrange the charcoal into a neat pile. ...

Large pile of charcoal. Steaks, burgers, hot dogs, thin pork chops, kebabs. Medium Heat / All-Purpose. 350°F to 450°F / 177°C to 232°C. ½ of a chimney. Medium to small pile.

At this point, usually the charcoal pile was so small and covered with ash that if it were your grill, you probably would have added a new chimney’s worth if you wanted to continue grilling.

To find the best grill for outdoor cooking, we put gas, charcoal and pellet grills to the test. Our favorites include models from Weber and Traeger.

It's not really a mountain at all; it is a giant pile of the wood scrap that gets fed into the Kingsford furnaces, ... How charcoal is made. The manufacturing of charcoal is a multi-step process.

Gas or Charcoal? July 7, 2004. By Robert L. Wolke. I never write about politics in this column. But this is an election year, this is The Washington Post, and I cannot remain silent any longer.