Blue Ridge Brand 60 Ceramic Briquettes For BBQ Grilling Heat Distribution - Lava Rock and Heat Shield Alternative - Radiate Heat For Gas, Propane, and Butane Grills

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Please be aware that these Blue Ridge Brand 60 Ceramic Briquettes are not full-size briquettes. They are half the regular thickness and therefore about half the weight of regular old-fashioned ceramic briquettes. Another issue is shape. Regular briquettes are rounded upwards (i.e., convex) on the upper surface AND rounded downwards (i.e., convex) on the lower surface -- sort of like a slightly flattened ball shape. These Blue Ridge Brand Briquettes are rounded upwards (i.e., convex) on the upper surface BUT rounded upwards (i.e., concave) on the lower surface -- sort of like a baseball-cap shape (without the brim). As I recall, the photos give you the illusion you are buying full-size ball-shaped briquettes and do not illustrate the concavity (hollow or dent) at the bottom of each briquette. People may be misled by this. I know I was. I don't know why each Blue Ridge briquette is concave (hollow or dented) at the bottom, rather than convex (rounded downwards). Possibly it is done to save weight and therefore cost for the manufacturer. Possibly it is done to create a heat-trap on the bottom of each briquette, to make cooking more efficient. In the past, when I used the full-size ceramic briquettes, after a long period of use, I could flip them over to bring the cleaner underside to the top. Falling grease would easily drip past the rounded upper side, and – after being flipped – grease would drip past the equally rounded under side (now brought to the top). One consequence of the concavity at the bottom of each Blue Ridge Brand briquette is that I doubt I can flip the briquettes over (once the upper surface gets greasy and discolored) and refresh the look of the BBQ by bringing the cleaner undersides up to the top. It just seems that this would create about 60 concavities or hollows under the grill, ready to fill up with puddles of flammable grease. It seems like these briquettes cannot be flipped and therefore will not last as long as the regular full-size briquettes and will have to be replaced in half the time. I bought them because my old full-size ceramic briquettes were crumbling, plus the dimensions from left to right seemed like it would fit the openings or holes in the metal trays in my Toro BBQ that support the briquettes. Although the fit is not perfect, it is close enough to work. So far, after about three weeks of occasional cooking on the BBQ, the Blue Ridge Brand briquettes seem to be working okay. They were shipped quickly and were all intact. The price was roughly the same as the full-size ceramic briquettes that I bought a couple of years ago.