Buy basic Charcoal for a cleaner fire

Charcoal makers have tried to sell more charcoal buy coming out with a whole bunch of high-tech charcoals. These charcoals can light themselves, buy for days, even clean your grill but do you want burning chemicals in your food? When it comes to charcoal, simpler is better. Ideally you want pure, clean lump charcoal made from whole chunks of wood. However cheap clean charcoal is also good and a lot less expensive. Avoid charcoal with additives like lighter fluid built right in. These charcoals have to burn off all the additives before they are good to cook with. A good charcoal fire produces almost no smoke.