Nice method! I'm going to try it in a pit, just for fun :-)

not if you do it right.......#10 can, no lid or top, vented near the top and bottom. fill it with crumpled newspaper, put it on top of the pile of charcoal, light the paper, and wait. When the charcoal catches, remove the can. If you work for the government, do not use any protective device on the hand you use to do the removal. When the charcoal begins to show white, spread it out a bit. Eventually......eat.
and if you keep the fire at a proper temperature, there is little smoke to bother the neighbors.

CT (Communist Tyranny)

These sh**bags have no adult supervision- like most of the rest of the federal government. It's time to remind those Republicans why we elected them last year- the government is out of control and bankrupting us. Defund, cut back, reduce, disband, close down, eliminate- those are the words we want to hear coming out of DC!

Good!! My neighbors stink up our house every nice day. We have to close the windows to keep the smoke out. The charcoal and wood chip smoke is worse than smoking 20 cigarettes. Keep your smoke in your own back yard and at least use gas instead of briquettes that require a big dose of stinking lighter fluid to get started.

What state are you in?

Trust me, Berkeley is regulating them (and even trying to outlaw fireplaces, and make people tear out existing ones!) way ahead of the feds.

The way Berkeley is regulating its people, I expect them to be passing out the Kool-Aid any day now. Go, lemmings, go!

Thank you. I like it :-). I just would like it to be in some other state besides this one...

Honestly, Ben, sometimes I get so disgusted the only way I can deal with it is to hide my head in the sand for a while.

Liberty Belle, good description of Moochelle

But we can't do that to US citizens, and certainly not on US soil...

Oh, wait...sorry...

But I like veggie kabobs too. Oh well.

Then you might have some more to compost.
Just don't use it on any edible plant.

Sounds wonderful, NMA

That would be execution by drone, and PETA will be cheerleaders.

I have a fireplace, septic, my own well, and big woods. A boat. Want to sell it, and get a smaller one. And I have a stream that runs through my woods, as well as game trails. And the smallest garden, which is getting enlarged. And a big honkin' GAS GRILL! Pffff

Venison... mmmmmmm! Yummy! Love "speed beef"!

What happened? And yes, it will make your head explode to listen to those windbags devise ways to take what you have earned. To regulate you to the point of, "WHY AM I DOING THIS!?" Shrug, Ben! Shrug!

Love charcoal, but have propane!! Oh the HORROR. It's a nice grill though. And I really do use it on an almost daily basis when it's warm, and often in the winter, as long as I can get to it. :-) My next purchase will be a smoker. For venison, or whatever else I feel like making the neighbors drool over.

And the spin will be that it was loaded... With MEAT! Eeek!

Hahaha! It made my eyes goggle, I must admit. 8^}

It's invasive and none of their darn business!

When it's smokin., it's cookin. When it's black it's done!

Don't need no damn Epa tellin me how to cook, by gum.

So when can we expect the first BBQer shot dead with a spatula in his hand, by responding 'smoke in the air' police that feared for their lives?

The law of bureaucracies in full bloom. That is, regardless of what the acronym empire was originally formed to do, it will always evolve into a "care and feeding" of its fat self above all other possible justifications for its existence, even if the original reasons no longer exist. The EPA ran out of massive chemical emissions in the atmosphere and waterways to justify itself so now it goes after individual BBQ grills and how much water you use to take a shower. The FDA ran out of nasty out of compliance meat packers so now it hassles grandma baking pies for the church social. Yeah, that BBQ grill you could get at Walmart for $50 will now cost $1050 to meet compliance and you'll have to plug it in to work.

The IRS paved the way for this. They are an organization that was supposed to originally only affect the richest 1 or 2 percent of the population, but has evolved into a gigantic bureaucracy sucking up at least a trillion dollars of annual GDP for the population to meet compliance and produces nothing but more power for itself. Like the IRS, the rest of the government alphabet soup is arming to the teeth to force their will on the people. Government, no longer ours, is succeeding in making criminals of us all just as Ayn Rand predicted.

Oh, I still use charcoal!

I love that question, 'When are the Repres....Hahahaha. Sorry, I couldn't hold that one in. Lol