Big Green Egg 100% Natural Lump Charcoal — Oak & Hickory - Premium hardwood fuel for your live-fire grill.

Bring real wood flavor to every cook with Big Green Egg’s 100% natural lump charcoal. Made in the USA from oak and hickory hardwoods, it lights fast, burns hot, and leaves minimal ash for easy cleanup.

Only available for pickup at our Denton, Texas store. This item is not eligible for shipping.

Why You’ll Like It

• All-Natural Fuel: No chemicals, no fillers, no mystery additives — just pure hardwood lump.
• Hotter, Cleaner Burn: Reaches searing temps quickly and holds steady heat for low-and-slow.
• Real Smoke Flavor: Oak delivers balanced heat; hickory adds bold BBQ character.
• Less Ash, More Airflow: Lump burns efficiently and keeps your firebox cleaner.
• Kamado-Perfect: Ideal for Big Green Eggs, CGS setups, and any ceramic cooker.

CGS Tips

• No lighter fluid. It can soak into the ceramics and linger for a long time.
• Use more charcoal than you think. Especially if you’re new to kamados — you don’t want to run out late in a cook.
• Reuse what’s left. Leftover lump from prior cooks still burns fine (though harder to light).
• For long BBQ cooks: Use all new charcoal so you’ve maintain a consistent burn. Save leftover lump in a nonflammable container for your next grilling cook.
• Mind the ash. Too much ash blocks airflow and chokes the fire. Shake the lump to drop loose ash before lighting, and clean the bottom of the grill every couple cooks. Check Kick Ash Baskets on our site. 

Lighting Charcoal

Grilling Cooks
Light in multiple spots — think about how much grid area you’ll use. The goal is even, active fire under the cooking zone when you’re ready to grill.

Barbecue Cooks
Light in one spot, usually in the center (or slightly forward on XL grills). You want a small, concentrated fire for those sub-300°F slow cooks. One ignition point keeps your indirect zone steady for hours.

How to Light
Some folks use torches; others prefer fire starters. Search the web and you'll find many options.

Emergency Fire Starter
Take a paper towel or napkin from the kitchen, roll it up like a wick, and lightly drizzle whatever cooking oil you have on it. Let it sit for 10 minutes, bury it in the charcoal, and light it like a fire starter.

Safety with High-Impact Torches
Any method that throws a bunch of energy at the charcoal — EGGniter, gas torch, weed burner — requires safety glasses. There’s an excellent chance the charcoal will spit embers, so protect your eyes and surroundings.

Commonalities Among All Bags

Foreign Objects: You’ll occasionally read about someone finding stones or small bits of metal in a bag of lump charcoal. Lump producers take precautions during production to prevent foreign objects, but it’s inevitable that a stone, metal piece, or something else sneaks into a bag from time to time.

Small Pieces: Small lump pieces produce the same BTUs as big pieces — they just burn quicker. Getting a bag full of small pieces is more about luck (or bad luck) than anything else. Quality lump producers use screens to sift out the smallest pieces, but bags filled from the bottom of large storage piles can naturally contain more fines that have worked their way down over time.

Also, bags on the bottom of a pallet can get compressed by the weight of other bags or additional pallets stacked on top. Think about a bottom bag in a double-pallet stack riding 1,500 miles over the axles of a trailer — it’s bound to take a little compression!