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dib-dib-dib

04/8/2011 at 12:44pm
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We go away at the weekend and I've left it too late to order cobblestones online. What is the next best thing to use?

So far I have only ever used the Cobblestones

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04/8/2011 at 1:00pm
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Australian heat beads may still get these from homebase or Penn beads from B&Q.Have you tried 'The Range'?

charlie53

04/8/2011 at 1:17pm
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I just use normal bbq briquets which you can pick up anywhere - probably cheaper too

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dib-dib-dib

04/8/2011 at 1:27pm
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at Suns - we don't have a Range around here but I'll have a look for those heatbeads in B&Q and Homebase

at Charlie - do the normal BBQ briquets keep hot for hours and hours like the cobblestones?

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I dont think the regular brickets keep hot for as long.I suppose you can use them depanding on what you are cooking.

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04/8/2011 at 5:55pm
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Weber briquets are as good as aussie heats beads and a lot easier to find most garden centres have them, the usually last about two and a half hours, it's all we every use.

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Th cobb instructions don't actually mention cobblestones - they just say 8 charcoal briquettes.

A tip i got was to coat 3 cotton wool balls in vaseline and place in the bottom where firelighters go - then place 8 bricks in the basket and cook like that.

Talking of cobblestones though - i find them really hard to light (hubby took a blow torch to one the other night) - whats the best way to light them ?

I stood for a good 10 minutes last night with a gas lighter

kate w

04/8/2011 at 6:20pm
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The cobblestones look alikes they had in Home Bargains last summer work nearly as well as the real thing at a fraction of the price. I bought enough to last me about 5 years last summer!

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carol benham

04/8/2011 at 7:01pm
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The old cobblestones used to light easily and were great but last years lot were a bit rubbish, I had to light them with my mini blow torch (the sort you use for creme brulee) and I found them not too hot, unfortunately I bought lots of pack

This year I'm also taking a bag of heat beads with us which I picked up in Waitrose (£5.99)

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We hold the cobb stone, so it's not flat but on it's side. Then hold one of those long lighters on the centre.

Tunstallwood

05/8/2011 at 5:10am
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If you put the piece of cardboard that comes with the cobblestone in the basket first then the cobblestone on top, light the cardboard and voila all done.

Wish Home Bargains had those look alike cobblestones in again, we do use the Australian heat beads but find the cobblestones are better for us when we do a roast or similar or want to use it quickly and not wait for ever for it to be ready.

Anyone found any reasonably priced cobblestones?!!

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05/8/2011 at 9:20am
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i too bought a stock of the home bargains 'cobblestones'
i thought they were great, they stayed hot for a good 3 hours if not more..
then..i won a competition and the prize was the real cobblestones (i was sadly really excited...)

however...i think they are rubbish

they are smokey when lit(no smoke with the home bargains
ones)..
they lasted less than 2 hours..
they didn't seem that hot at all..

if i had paid for them i would have been furious..not worth the huge price tag at all..

Tunstallwood

06/8/2011 at 6:22am
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If anyone has any of the Home Bargains/B&M ones left could you have a look and see what the description is, keep googling but only come up with cobblestones, I think they were made of slightly different stuff.

Thank you!

Andi

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i have googled them...they are imported by home bargains.

http://www.ksglobaldistributors.com/product.htm

importer..
http://www.tjmorris.co.uk/

Tunstallwood

07/8/2011 at 4:43am
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Thanks for that, can't find any in our Home Bargains

though.

Andi

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Re Cobb cobblestones..... I had problems lighting them so spoke to a very helpful man at Cobb uk. They have had a problem with the consistency of lighting the cobblestones so they have changed them. The old ones are in a box and in a printed wrapper. The new ones still in a box but in a clear see through wrapper. He did tell me what they are now made of but it was a few months ago and I've forgotten!

On roasting a ham joint on my Cobb in France last week I had many admiring comments :)

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Fab time in France again.... Roll on next year!

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