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Seems like a good deal on coal....
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Look forward to it, Thanks
OK so finally back in Ireland to give this a go.
So a few caveats, the CW ovoids are last years crop. Easy Glow are this years one. I assume the formulation could shift from pallet to pallet not to mind say year to year.BorneTobyWilde wrote: »Compare the look, the bag, the coal.
Well much of a muchness bag wise. The CW ones were 40Kg and the EG are 20Kg so easier to handle. Apart from the weight making them easier to heft the EG bags do feel a tiny bit better quality with a tighter weave but really not much in it.
All bags that don't make it to the bunker are kept under a tarp. The sun kills that type of material otherwise. So basically last years CW bags weren't in **** by the time I went to lift them a month ago.
In terms of setting the fire I way prefer the large ovoids from CW, you can make a ring of 6 or 7 of them about your lighters and stick a few on top. The EG ovoids are so small you have to put almost the whole base down before you can pile a lot more on top. Swings and roundabouts though, as you put so many in at the start you don't need to top up for some time with EG.
EG small ovoids burn with a flame for a half hour to an hour before settling down to a glow, whereas the CW ones just seem to glow brightly and rarely give off a flame (unless chucked in on top of a hot coal fire). CW are incredibly long burning though. I often topped up the fire at 9pm with 5 or 6 ovoids and still had plenty of red embers by 11am the next morning. Due to their size the EG ovoids are not that long burning, lasted maybe 3-4 hours tops, and at that stage were really too small to be throwing out heat.
Both sets of ovoids pretty much disappear in terms of not leaving any cinders. Just a fine ash.
The EG ones are way less smoky than the CW ones and the glass was a LOT cleaner with EG. That said the CW ones were mixed in to a bunker with regular coal so probably have a lot of dust on them. Perhaps not a fair comparison and I'd have to get a fresh bag of each to tell for sure. The fact that the CW ones only smoke initially tells me it's just coal dust burning off.
Looks wise...don't really know what to look for.
Heatwise, no ideas, been running on 0-3 hrs of sleep for the last 8 days and only back to normality now. Body is too far gone to be guessing which is throwing out the most heat.
Bed of CW with EG on top, best of both worlds maybe?0 -
OK so finally back in Ireland to give this a go.
So a few caveats, the CW ovoids are last years crop. Easy Glow are this years one. I assume the formulation could shift from pallet to pallet not to mind say year to year.
Well much of a muchness bag wise. The CW ones were 40Kg and the EG are 20Kg so easier to handle. Apart from the weight making them easier to heft the EG bags do feel a tiny bit better quality with a tighter weave but really not much in it.
All bags that don't make it to the bunker are kept under a tarp. The sun kills that type of material otherwise. So basically last years CW bags weren't in **** by the time I went to lift them a month ago.
In terms of setting the fire I way prefer the large ovoids from CW, you can make a ring of 6 or 7 of them about your lighters and stick a few on top. The EG ovoids are so small you have to put almost the whole base down before you can pile a lot more on top. Swings and roundabouts though, as you put so many in at the start you don't need to top up for some time with EG.
EG small ovoids burn with a flame for a half hour to an hour before settling down to a glow, whereas the CW ones just seem to glow brightly and rarely give off a flame (unless chucked in on top of a hot coal fire). CW are incredibly long burning though. I often topped up the fire at 9pm with 5 or 6 ovoids and still had plenty of red embers by 11am the next morning. Due to their size the EG ovoids are not that long burning, lasted maybe 3-4 hours tops, and at that stage were really too small to be throwing out heat.
Both sets of ovoids pretty much disappear in terms of not leaving any cinders. Just a fine ash.
The EG ones are way less smoky than the CW ones and the glass was a LOT cleaner with EG. That said the CW ones were mixed in to a bunker with regular coal so probably have a lot of dust on them. Perhaps not a fair comparison and I'd have to get a fresh bag of each to tell for sure. The fact that the CW ones only smoke initially tells me it's just coal dust burning off.
Looks wise...don't really know what to look for.
Heatwise, no ideas, been running on 0-3 hrs of sleep for the last 8 days and only back to normality now. Body is too far gone to be guessing which is throwing out the most heat.
Bed of CW with EG on top, best of both worlds maybe?
Thanks for sharing."Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."
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OK so finally back in Ireland to give this a go.
So a few caveats, the CW ovoids are last years crop. Easy Glow are this years one. I assume the formulation could shift from pallet to pallet not to mind say year to year.
Well much of a muchness bag wise. The CW ones were 40Kg and the EG are 20Kg so easier to handle. Apart from the weight making them easier to heft the EG bags do feel a tiny bit better quality with a tighter weave but really not much in it.
All bags that don't make it to the bunker are kept under a tarp. The sun kills that type of material otherwise. So basically last years CW bags weren't in **** by the time I went to lift them a month ago.
In terms of setting the fire I way prefer the large ovoids from CW, you can make a ring of 6 or 7 of them about your lighters and stick a few on top. The EG ovoids are so small you have to put almost the whole base down before you can pile a lot more on top. Swings and roundabouts though, as you put so many in at the start you don't need to top up for some time with EG.
EG small ovoids burn with a flame for a half hour to an hour before settling down to a glow, whereas the CW ones just seem to glow brightly and rarely give off a flame (unless chucked in on top of a hot coal fire). CW are incredibly long burning though. I often topped up the fire at 9pm with 5 or 6 ovoids and still had plenty of red embers by 11am the next morning. Due to their size the EG ovoids are not that long burning, lasted maybe 3-4 hours tops, and at that stage were really too small to be throwing out heat.
Both sets of ovoids pretty much disappear in terms of not leaving any cinders. Just a fine ash.
The EG ones are way less smoky than the CW ones and the glass was a LOT cleaner with EG. That said the CW ones were mixed in to a bunker with regular coal so probably have a lot of dust on them. Perhaps not a fair comparison and I'd have to get a fresh bag of each to tell for sure. The fact that the CW ones only smoke initially tells me it's just coal dust burning off.
Looks wise...don't really know what to look for.
Heatwise, no ideas, been running on 0-3 hrs of sleep for the last 8 days and only back to normality now. Body is too far gone to be guessing which is throwing out the most heat.
Bed of CW with EG on top, best of both worlds maybe?
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Are these single or double ( maybe even triple ) Ovoid's? My stove says NOT to use single ovoids……?? Its a Charnwood B multifuel stove. I don't understand why doubles are acceptable, but not singles? They are the same composition, I think, so only reason I can think of is the size of the grate, and the singles would slip down through it.....taytobreath wrote: »I've said this several times on this thread, I have went with several different cw ovoid comparables and to me nothing is as good as the cw ovoids. I speak in terms of heat output and the longevity of the heat output, but not in an environmental point of view as in chemical and smoke output.
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