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Can I use flavored charcoal briquettes for my BBQ grill?👀
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer. Do you have kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments!
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Am I permitted to use flavored charcoal briquettes
for my barbecue? If the flavor is just a regular
wood type flavor like hickory or mosquite, those
are not a problem at all. Those just refer to the
type of wood. There is no actual added flavor.
If it's a wine flavor, that could present the
problem because not only is one not allowed
to drink non-kosher wine, but also one is not
allowed to derive benefit from it as well. Often
times, it can have wood chips which come from old
wine barrels. They will actually take the wine
barrel, they'll chop it up into little pieces,
and they'll sell wood chips that have wine flavor
in them that people can use for barbecuing,
and that should be avoided. But again, if
it's just a regular wood flavor, that's fine.