One of the many pieces of shit advice I’ve taken from STW was to buy a Cobb barbecue (or whatever it technically is).
It’s quite good for doing a few sausages, or some limp vegies, but it’s utterly useless for a steak. It just slowly cooks it to death without it ever getting brown.

Was planning to drill a couple more holes in the base in a desparate attempt to get a bit more heat out of it before flinging the damn thing in the bin and buying the Weber portable that wasn’t available at the time I bought the Cobb.

Anyone tried that, anyone got any better suggestions to cook a decent steak on it?

What plate are you using it, what coals?

Cooked cracking steaks on ours with grill and charcoal ovals.

using the standard non stick plate whatsit with a few small holes and grooves in it.
More recently using charcoal lumps since I assumed they burn hotter due to the higher surface area. Maybe they don’t?

I don’t recall the briquettes being any better, but maybe I had rubbish ones.

Recommendations for briquettes?

cheers

Genuine Cobb (Le?) stones or Australian heat beads.

Lumpwood Charcoal for steaks. Briquettes for low indirect cooking. You can achieve awesome steaks on a budget by getting a BBQ chimney starter light a load of Lumpwood. Wait for it to fully ignite then place a grate over the top of the chimney. It burns mega hot and cooks steaks brilliantly!

The Cobb coconut fuel burns hotter, and there is a thick griddle you can get instead of the standard thin surface.

I use lots of the briquettes as many as I can squeeze in. Bought some the beads but not used them yet, I’ve also a chimney for lump in case of emergencies.