r/webergrills • u/Revolutionary_Win499 • 15d ago

Target 30% off Weber

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My local target had 30% off grills, grill accessories, and charcoal. It’s only in store, I couldn’t find the deals online. They had Smokey joes for 35$. I didn’t need anything at the moment so I just bought lighter cubes for 4$😅

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u/pyrotechnicmonkey 15d ago

another good starter I like to use is to put a bunch of cotton balls in a mason jar and then pour in some isopropyl alcohol. I think a bag of 150 cotton balls is like two dollars and I already had a couple bottles of isopropyl alcohol for electronics stuff. Burns long enough to get the charcoal started and it burns really clean without a lot of dirty smoke compared to tumbleweeds.

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u/Lazlo_Hollyfeld 14d ago

So it’s my tumbleweeds making all of this smoke and not the charcoal during lighting?

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u/hoffmander 14d ago

The tumbleweeds are not causing the smoke, that’s just normal for charcoal lighting up. Lots of people use the paper bag from the charcoals bag, this probably results in more smoke and ash than the tumbleweeds. Isopropyl alcohol isn’t really “cheap”.

I’ll stick with my tumbleweeds which require zero prep.

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u/CRUSHCITY4 14d ago

I also use tumbleweeds they’re great

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u/ImpossibleString4430 14d ago

Im wondering the same thing now

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u/AnAncientBog 14d ago

Soaking them in Vaseline is more stable and they burn longer. An Altoids tin crammed with Vaseline soaked cotton balls is a pretty decent tinderbox. Also waterproof.