How to light charcoal in 3 minutes with a Chimney of Insanity and BBQ Dragon Fan
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- It's actually sometimes closer to 2 minutes, but I don't want you to think I'm exaggerating.
So, I've used the chimney to light charcoal about 900 times (best guess). Here's exactly how to use it to start charcoal in, let's say, 2.5 minutes:
1. MOST IMPORTANT: Place the chimney of Insanity on the TOP grate, not the bottom (charcoal) grate. This is because you want to draw COOL air into the fan, not hot. Suck in really hot air, and your fan will be damaged.
2. Fill with charcoal
3. Wad up about 1/2 sheet of newspaper in a fat cigar shape, and stuff into the side hole.
4. Light newspaper
5. IMMEDIATELY turn on your BBQ Dragon fan and aim it into the side hole, and then insert the fan just a bit into the hole.
6. When done successfully, the fan doesn't extinguish the flame, but actually blows hot flames up into the hole and ignites the remainder of the paper.
7. You'll hear a roar like a jet engine for a few moments, which is cool, and not a big issue.
8. Keep your eye on this set up. After 2 minutes, flames will be shooting up. Keep it on, well, not much longer.
It's real.
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And there goes any last argument in favor of gas
DewDrinker87 Agreed - I’ve stopped using gas grill. Either I use Charcoal or bake. Gas grilling is no-grilling 😄
With these tools, I won’t have any excuse to grill when I’m tired after work in the winter because it takes too long to get the coals hot.
Damn!!!!
I need one of these...
Thx for sharing
I've had mine going on a year now and I LOVE the damned thing. I use starter cubes, so I have to ease in with the air, but the cubes don't produce that annoying "fly around" paper ash. Still, my fire is up in 4-5 minutes and no need to EVER disgrace my food with lighter fluid again.
Thanks for posting this. I think it helps people to hear it. If anybody has a chance to do an Amazon review for the fan, that would really help us. We're having an issue with Amazon customers complaining that their fan melted - and we're really trying to let users know that you just can't suck flaming hot air into the fan intake, like from directly above your charcoal fire. Also, I'm sure that when you use yours, you use up on top of the cooking grate, not down inside the grill on the coals grate, so it can stay cool.
If it only takes that long why not just leave the video running?
One of the earlier edits of the video included the full lighting time - but it was super boring. If you really need to see the middle part, let me know, and I'll post it as a separate video called "Super Boring Middle 2 Minutes of 3 Minute Chimney Lighting Process."
I use a chimney currently and it always takes 10-15 minutes to light up and be ready to use. Just curious how much faster t this one is.
@Mister Fister when you're limited on time you need to be able to cook faster. Honestly i cook over open fire more often than charcoal anyways.
How hot is the top of the chimney? I purchased both btw
@Mister Fister Wisely spoken, Master Wu.
Your cutting my beer drinking time.
Don't limit yourself to only drinking while you're waiting for the fire to start.
Brotherman! It’s like my sacred tradition to drink a talk while the coals are burning!
Agree, enjoying those cold ones while the coals get hot ♨️
That is smart stuff... no one got 30 mins to play around to get the coals lit. I need to buy this ASAP... if its too expensive I can make one...
Sold!
Hot damn this is wayy too cool.
Looks like a solution for something that was never a problem (my chimney starts charcoal fine, I'm usually prepping the ribs or burgers during the wait)
Any good invention needs to solve a common problem. This solves no problem that anybody ever had. Maybe good for grillers with ADD?
@@drdrew3 I drilled bigger holes in my webber and use my 200mph leaf blower must faster.
It works fucking awesome. I've had mine for a few months.
you're saying you like to wait 15 mins to get the coals lit and come back and add more coals on top to get things rolling? oh wait maybe u use lighter fluid and love that to dress it all over the coals...
@@ShopperPlug maybe you just make dumb assumptions
Would that clip to the back of my Tacoma truck bed? Im looking for something that I can use for my smoker I have in the of my truck for tailgating.
Yes, I think so.
Idk if someone can reply to me at all but i’m trying anyway, so i bought a chimney and it works really good to light the charcoals bricks but they either burn too fast or not enough... idk when im supposed to stop using the chimney to make sure my charcoal bricks will last ?...
U don't want them too gray or ashed over. Also depends on wat ur grilling.
what brand are those gloves ?
why they didn't leave the camera on the chimney for 2 minutes instead of showing "2 minutes later" ???
Because it makes for boring video. If it's just an issue of needing proof it was really 2 minutes, we can post a separate video of the missing 2 minutes. Let me know!
We have some other videos on YT that just show the starting minutes in fast-motion, too, as an alternative to just cutting them out and saying "2 minutes later." Esthetically and artistically we prefer this one. (But it is almost unbelievable - you're right!)
Can't find any at the moment? Where should I purchase it?
@thangstheking really? thanks!
Im old school i just use a blow dyer! haha
Great , thanks i m buying two of these
We have an XL size Chimney of Insanity coming out - you might just want one of each.
BBQ Dragon would prefer that, when is it coming out ?
@@obaidfarghani9202 We'll have it by Fall. Biggest chimney ever. It's a monster.
Works kinda like my forge.
That is impressive
I came here bcz of guga food
That's great, thanks for checking us out. Guga is a king.
That's Awesome!
I just got mine, let’s see how it turns out!!
And how is it?
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Huh, so it's a turbocharger for your chimney, pretty much.
Yes, you're right. In fact we used to call it a "fire supercharger." In cars, turbochargers are powered by the flow of exhaust air out of the engine, and superchargers are separately powered blowers.
Super hot air?👍
yes this is the way, but we need to see those boring 2 minutes to see if the paper actually hold the fire going with all that air coming in
NICE 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅⚘
Are you kidding - I've used a common cheap hair dryer to "quick start " a BBQ and it works fantastic. $118 for the Dragon is a rip off.
Mine broke after a few uses.. never got a response from this company.. battery connection on circuit board broke... this thing is a tiny fan that is junk. Nice idea.. but spend a few more pennies to make it last
In mine, the fan began to melt and I only used it as shown in this video, so if that's incorrect usage, then I don't know what they are thinking. Was great, the few times it functioned. But for the price, no way.
Y not use a heat gun
1. You have to hold it. 2. You have to plug it in. 3. Doesn't blow as much air. 4. The heat is only necessary at the very beginning. 5. Heat gun (we've tested) takes longer that just newspapers, and 6. This is cool.
Ok that sounds cool i just have a 15 dollar heat gun from harbor freight and stick it in the 9 dollar chimney from wallmart plug it in outlet outside and leave it on high takes 4 min to get coals roarin
I like your chimney it awesome
que dius?
I don't understand why the video doesn't match the instructions that are printed on the paper sleeve that comes wrapped around the "Chimney of Instanity".
The printed instructions:
1. First light the paper UNDER that chimney and get the charcoal going.
2. After 2 minutes, insert the BBQ Dragon and turn on LOW speed.
3. After no more than 3 minutes, remove BBQ Dragon.
4. When the charcoal is FULLY red, pour carefully into grill.
By contrast, the video:
o Puts paper into the ELBOW, not UNDER the chimney.
o Does not wait 2 minutes.
o Turns the fan on FULL speed.
o Does not wait for the charcoal to be FULLY red.
If the printed instructions are followed, it might be more like 10 minutes before the coals are ready for use, depending on how long it takes for the charcoal to be fully red.
You're right. I just read the packaging sleeve and it's wrong. That is my mistake. And it's particularly frustrating because we just manufactured a bunch more and I didn't catch it, and we have a new model coming out, and it also is probably wrong. Thank you for noticing this. I will change the packaging on the next run. In the meantime, the correct way is to put a half to 3/4 tightly wound newspaper in the elbow, light, and immediately use the fan. One of our Dragon Egg fire starters works well in there, too.
Design flaw? BBQ dragon stamped or cutouts are useless if not hindering the mechanics. The fan just spits out most of the air...
There's a 90 degree tube inside the bottom of the chimney, so the air is actually not blowing into the area where the cutouts are, it's blowing up into the charcoal chamber.
I mean, how impatient can you be? Just let the fuckin coals burn while you prep. All this is more shit you have to take out, put away and clean. And more shit to break and re-buy.
Ok ok I’m not
Just uses chimney the traditional way and start 15 minutes earlier. It’s a BBQ - not a race.
Yes, your point is good, there is an aspect of BBQ which is relaxing, a time away from other responsibilities. And we have attempted to enhance that feeling. But in our surveys, very few people thought that a chimney which took LONGER to get ready, for example, 45 minutes, or 90 minutes, would be better. We did have a chimney in development which took 4 hours to have the charcoal ready, and it performed very poorly in market studies. We're just going to keep working on this challenging issue, but in the meantime, people who want to start their charcoal more slowly can just use this chimney in the traditional way, with no blower, and people who have hungry family members waiting for food can use it with a blower and be ready in 2 minutes. We're not judging. But, we are coming out with an XL sized chimney, for chefs with grills the size of wading pools.
BBQ Dragon I appreciate your lengthy response but a chimney does NOT take 45-90 minutes to ready charcoal. And even with the fan up yours takes 5+ minutes (not 2). Who are to you trying to fool ?!?
@@drdrew3 Which size Chimney of Insanity do you have? Regular or XL?
BBQ Dragon I have the Weber compact and the Weber full size. Worked plenty of competitions and only seen one weirdo with a fan. Must have been you.
Shashank Singh “Get off the internet”? Because this one guy is making lame videos? Good luck with that
mine melted in 1 minute. waste of money
Not sure what melted, but BBQ Dragon has pretty good customer service and they'll send you a new whatever. I doubt the chimney melted, because it's, you know, metal. BBQ Dragon Fan owners probably already know this because it's in the instructions, but please note how the chimney and fan are positioned in this video, to prevent sucking burning hot air into the intake of the fan.
I'm on my second blower because the first one just stopped working. I contacted BBQ customer service and told them my blower stopped working and they replaced it with a new one. When I got the replacement blower I immediately put new batteries in it and guess what IT DIDN'T WORK!!! I played around with it smacked it with my hand twisted the blower neck around and it finally started blowing after bumping it a couple of more times. It started blowing slowly and then finally picked up speed. It has done this numerous times and now it won't blow at all. This thing is a piece of junk and not worth the money they charge for it. I did email customer service about the second blower not working and to date I have not gotten a reply...DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS CRAP!!!
Junk
Nope, treasure.