Heat beads for Cobb

G'day troy35,
If your referring to the Redhead heatbeads that are impregnated with an excellerant, I'll agree with you. I tried them and had the same result. I've gone back to the oridginal heat bead brand, I think they are in an orange & black packet. 8 - 10 of these will easely go about three hours.
Regards,
Bazza.

Have only ever used the Heat Beads® brand for my Cobb.
In fact, I use the Heat Beads® Easy-lite product which, although more expensive, makes life much easier, as you don't need separate fire lighters.
Hardly start on the second glass of red before the cobb is ready for cooking.

The orange & yellow, or orange yellow & black bags are the original Heat Beads® product which comes in 4kg, 7kg and 10kg sizes.

The Heat Beads® Easy-lite come in yellow & black bags and only a 3kg size.
These are a convenient size when you consider you only use 6 or so at a time.

Now, to answer your original question....no.....haven't used the redhead product, or any other brand, but I would be surprised if they didn't generate a similar heat output. I am unlikely to change though, because I like the easy lighting feature without any unpleasant "kerosene" odor usually attributable to the separate "fire-lighters".

As a matter of fact, I'm the nominated cooking detail tonight and planning a slab of Pot Roast, with roasted potatoes and butternut pumpkin, cooked in the Cobb in the kitchen at home. Haven't used the Weber since I bought the Cobb.
To accompany the meal.....hmmmm....A bottle of Wirra Wirra Church Block I think.

Oh life's a struggle!!!

Thanks for the replies. I will tell my friend to try the heat bead brand and see how they go.

What's happened to the Aussie male? This post would have been confined to housewives over the back fence in years gone by! Use corn cobs for cooking - that was the original intention! Better still get a camp oven and a good pile of hot coals. Why ever would you use one of these at home when you presumably have an oven built in?? Just remember, it's only applying heat to meat to cook it - nothing magic!!

I use the Easy lite beads , with a small amount of metho in a sardine tin underneath to assist with lighting.

After cooking i empty the hot beads into a billycan with a lid , and can reuse the beads next time.
Learnt that trick on the forum.

Pedro