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Originally Posted by Craven Morehead
I use a chimney starter but no lighter fluid. Seems to work fairly quickly. A couple of pages of crumpled up newspaper and you're good to go. Some BBQ purists really frown on using lighter fluid as they say it leaves an aftertaste on the meat. I've never noticed, however.
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My experience is that if you use lighter fluid and squirt it across your grates, you get an aftertaste. If you are careful not to get it on the grates you will usually be fine, especially if you let the fire burn down enough that all the fluid is burned off by the time you put the food on.
Also, a guy I know who does granite had a remnant left that he let go to me for pretty cheap. So I just pimped out my grill table. Here's a shot of my Big Green Egg (the granite needs the lines used to measure the hole cleaned off it still).
