F. Grill Fuels and Fire Starters

Appears in
Mastering the Grill: The Owner's Manual for Outdoor Cooking

By Andrew Schloss and David Joachim

Published 2007

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Your grill’s fuel source determines its cooking characteristics more than any other factor. Understanding how that fuel is manufactured and exactly what it’s made of will help you to master cooking with it. All fuels need to be ignited for combustion to occur, so we’ll take a look at various fire starters as well. They all work a bit differently.