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Reply #10 - Oct 20^th, 2007 at 9:44pm

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Charcoal beads for camp oven cooking is still a relatively new thing in Australia and some die hards still wont use them preferring coals from a fire.

Canada and Australia are two countries separated by one language.

Beads, google image:

Bricks, google image:

briquettes or little bricks:

& for a manufacturing idea, coconut shell briquettes:

Yes, I know this is an Aussie forum, but I can't get away from thinking of little tiny pieces, from the size of celery seed to the size of my thumb, when I see the word beads.

How the dickens did the manufacturer ever come up with the idea of 'beads' in the name?

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Reply #11 - Oct 20^th, 2007 at 10:10pm

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How the dickens did the manufacturer ever come up with the idea of 'beads' in the name?

Why dont you ask them. Grin

I guess thats what they have always been called here. I just had a look on a pack I have here and they call them Heat Beads® Barbecue Fuel.

Anyway they work OK.

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Reply #12 - Oct 21^st, 2007 at 8:24pm

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If I were in an Aussie store which carries camping supplies and I asked for charcoal, what would happen?

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Reply #13 - Oct 21^st, 2007 at 8:33pm

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I don't know but I expect you would be directed to the Heat Beads®

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Reply #14 - Oct 22^nd, 2007 at 8:51am

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Little_Kopit wrote on Oct 21^st, 2007 at 8:24pm:

If I were in an Aussie store which carries camping supplies and I asked for charcoal, what would happen?

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LK, they'd probably go out the back & get you a shovel full of ash from the incinerator Grin

I am one of those "Die Hards" Derek but have been considering trying the heat beads, I had a go once before using "charcoal briquettes" on top & the gas under neath, it was OK for what I was doing, smoking fish with wood chips on the bottom of the C/O but I prefer coals, we dont have a big problem with fire bans here but mid summer is too hot for shouveling coals around,

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Getting back to the fire coals verse heat beads thingy,
Youll have to do some work to pursuade me Derek!!

Q. how do you go when youre nearly done, the heat beads have settled down & you want to bang a bit of heat into it at the last moment to brown things up a bit more??
Q. or when youve got 6-8 ovens going?? (obviously only good for one oven or so!!)

ie:- 1x 9qrtr oval for bread
1-2x 12qrt ovens for meats (poultry in one & red meat in the other)
1x 9qrt for a potato bake
1x 9qrt for hard vege's (potato, pumpkin & carrot)
1-2x 4.5qrt for soft vege's (brocolli, caulieflour & zuccini)
1x 9qrt ready for the fruit pie desert. (mulberry, blueberry or apple)

Thats a lot of coals.

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You have some briquettes waiting to be added.

Or, if you're out there tending everything, imbibing ordinary stuff like a cup of tea, coffee, but nothing stronger, you may just add briquettes one at a time to sit right beside ones already going.

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Reply #17 - Oct 22^nd, 2007 at 7:32pm

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Mick, I have run up to six camp ovens at once. It's something you get used to I think. I start with a chimney full of Heat Beads® and after a while put some more on so that as one lot die down I have more to load on the ovens.

I can get a good hour out of Heat Beads® before they start to need replacing.

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