Sure I saw a thread on here recently suggesting a brand of briquettes that had some good bulk deals available – buggered if I can find it though!

Any suggestions – north west / south manc based.

Cheers

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-tell-me-about-hot-logseco-logs-and-the-like

Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?

cheers drac

“Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?”

you mean the wet some paper and compress it down using your briquette maker and let it dry…..then burn it

if so – the grand parents had a go at this back in the 80s when QVC were selling them on sky as the latest great thing…… it uses more paper than you think , produces alot of ash and is very time consuming.

Noticed Aldi had tonnes in at the weekend. Looked like a wood equivalent of a cereal bar.

A friend tried the wet paper gadget yonks ago. The blocks took forever to dry out.

Thanks, I thought it probably wouldn’t be as easy or good as they suggested….

Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?

Burn pretty well, if you have a sauce of free paper (I collect the shredding from my office) it’s worth it. As said above, produces allot of ash. I normally burn them with a single wood log.

Needs to be a very sunny week for them to dry out (summer only). Takes a good few days if left in the sun.

It is a pain in the bum making them though.

it uses more paper than you think , produces alot of ash and is very time consuming.

sort of good enough in combination with wood, but next to pointless on it’s own. Still a massive waste of time though.