Heat Beads Original BBQ Briquettes 4kg

Australia’s best-selling barbecue fuel, Heat Beads Original BBQ Briquettes are a convenient way to fuel your barbecue. Clean to handle and smokeless when they burn, they’re ideal for using in any variety of barbecue, from impromptu beach-side grills and camp ovens like the Cobb Barbecue, to kettle barbecues for entertaining crowds on the patio at home.

Offering up to 5 hours of cooking time, Heat Beads’ briquettes provide high cooking temperatures and retain their heat for a long time thanks to their careful formulation and tightly compressed construction, so there’s no panic to get everything onto the barbecue at once, and no worries about having enough time to cook things all the way through. Created to make us all more confident about alfresco cooking, these briquettes are much less hassle than the technicalities of using charcoal, and they won’t cover you in black dust when you’re setting up your barbecue.

Safe, non-toxic, smokeless and odourless to cook with, these pebble-shaped bricks of fuel are a blend of natural hardwood charcoal dust – previously a waste product – mixed with a slow-burning, purified mineral carbon known as char. Combined with heat-retentive sand to help extend cooking time and a little salt which, apparently, makes them easier to light, the ingredients are bound together with food-grade starch and compressed into neat little ‘coals’.

Heat Beads recommend using a chimney-style fire starter to get the briquettes nice and hot before you start cooking…

• 1) Place firelighters in the base of your barbecue
• 2) Sit your chimney starter on top of the firelighters and pack with briquettes
• 3) Light the firelighter(s)
• 4) As soon as the briquettes have started to go ashy, lift away the chimney – please use tongs and heat-protective gloves.

About Heat Beads

Fuelling the Australian passion for barbecuing since 1970, Heat Beads are made by Australian Char, an Aussie company with a passionate belief in chargrilling as the only way to get that true BBQ taste. The leading producer of high-quality barbecue fuel in Australia, their reputation – and recognition of their distinctive wheel of fire logo – is now spreading around the world.