Homefire: Choosing the Best Fuel Source this BBQ Season

Summer is finally here and what better way to celebrate than inviting people over and lighting up your BBQ? To ensure your BBQ grill burns well and cooks your food to perfection, you’ll want to choose the right fuel. Should you go with charcoal or wood?

This article will compare those options, getting into the details of each so you can make your mind up.

What to know about barbecuing with charcoal

This is perhaps the more common choice for BBQs up and down the country. It’s a tried and tested fuel source. Grillers everywhere attest to the delicious flavours as a result of a charcoal BBQ.

Charcoal tends to stack nicely while providing sufficient space for oxygen to breathe in the gaps.

That familiar smoky taste that rouses nostalgic feelings is one of the advantages charcoal briquettes deliver for your BBQ.

Using the appropriate equipment, it’s simple to move the charcoal around the pit should you need to. This means you can cook on one side of your grill while leaving the other half to keep food warm once it’s cooked.

Homefire offers a wide range of smokeless fuel options that would be ideal for your grill.

What to know about barbecuing with wood

Tradition isn’t everything, and many people have now converted to using wood as their BBQ fuel source.

Grilling over wood offers more versatility because you get a broader choice of the type of wood you can use – this isn’t necessarily the case for charcoal briquettes.

Using wood for your garden BBQ could be challenging because it’s not quite as simple to control or direct the heat from your grill until you’re used to it. Once you are though, you’ll enjoy a whole new range of flavours.

Wood grants you a lot of space for your kindling, however, meaning you’re able to place the firelighters in bigger gaps between your logs.

We’d always recommend kiln-dried wood over other types of logs as it burns more efficiently, producing wonderful flames and saving you money in the long run.

Should I choose wood or charcoal?

This is usually down to personal preference; depending on whether you want a smoky, original flavour that charcoal briquettes provide, or if you’d like to explore Homefire’s wood range to open your eyes to a whole new world of grilling.

Whichever you opt for, Homefire can help. We pride ourselves on products like sustainable and non-toxic wood that provides wonderful flames.

While the classic BBQ charcoal briquettes will deliver the flavour you’re looking for, you might be tempted by the Ecoal Smokeless Coal as an alternative, which emits less smoke and burns for longer.

Either way, make sure you’re prepared this summer by stocking up on our bundles and taking advantage of our great savings.