Weber Chimney Starter, Charcoal & Smoking Chips (20 items found)

The first rule of grilling is to always be prepared. Master your Weber grilling endeavors with the impressive selection of Weber chimney starters, wood pellets, wood chunks and more at Ace Hardware. Find the Weber grilling essentials you'll need to improve your cooking skills and simplify your grilling experience. Use this convenient guide to learn more about some of the Weber grilling products we carry.

Convenient Grilling with a Weber Charcoal Starter

While charcoal grills are a popular choice among grilling enthusiasts due to the smoky flavor produced during the cooking process, a charcoal grill is often more time-consuming than a Weber gas grill or electric grill because charcoal briquettes require more time to heat up.

If you enjoy the enriched flavor that comes from a Weber charcoal grill, use a chimney starter to light the charcoal quicker. Especially if you have a Weber charcoal grill, the best way to light lump hardware, charcoal or briquettes is with a Weber charcoal starter.

How to Use a Weber Chimney Starter

Get grilling quicker and ignite your charcoal or hardwood faster using a chimney starter. For best results, follow these three simple steps:

1. Place a couple of pieces of crumpled newspaper in the bottom of the chimney starter.
2. Fill the top with charcoal briquettes or lump hardwood.
3. Light the chimney starter from the bottom, and you'll have burning hot coals or wood that is ready to transport to your grill soon.

You’ll easily be able to tell once your lump hardwood is ready to go. But if you’re inexperienced with charcoal briquettes, they’ve reached the ideal cooking temperature once they’ve turned a white-gray color.

Weber Smoking Wood Chunks, Chips and Pellets

Permeate your foods with an incredible smoky flavor by transforming your grill into a pseudo-smoker with a variety of Weber smoking chunks and chips. Different types of Weber wood chips and chunks impart different flavors, and the type of wood you should use largely depends on your preferences.

Here's some helpful information about which Weber BBQ smoking chips or chunks might pair well with your favorite grilled foods:

• Cherry: With a sweet, mild flavor, cherrywood smoking chips are a good match for most meats.
• Apple: Applewood infuses a sweet, fruity flavor to pork, beef, game birds, poultry and lamb.
• Mesquite: Use mesquite smoking chips when grilling red or dark meats for a strong, earthy flavor.
• Hickory: Featuring a savory yet subtly sweet flavor, hickory adds a nice, rich flavor to beef and pork.
• Pecan: While pecan has a stronger flavor than most fruitwoods, it's also milder than hickory wood. Pecan is often used for poultry grilling but adds a great flavor to a variety of other meats, too.

Ace also carries a selection of Weber pellets for your Weber pellet grill. Find Weber wood pellets in cherry, apple, mesquite, hickory and blended hardwood varieties featuring many of the flavor advantages of our Weber wood chips and chunks selection.

Shop Weber Pellets and Smoking Chunks at Ace Hardware

Browse Ace Hardware online to check out our collection of Weber chimney starters, wood chips and pellets. Or, head to your local Ace to learn more about our Weber grilling products by speaking to one of our friendly associates. Find Weber grilling tools and utensils, Weber grill covers and more, then keep your grill in tip-top shape with Weber grill replacement parts and cleaning products for you Weber grill.