Charcoal is a popular and effective fuel for outdoor cooking, offering high, consistent heat that’s ideal for grilling and barbecuing. It imparts a distinctive smoky flavor to food, enhancing the taste of meats, vegetables, and more. Easy to light and quick to reach cooking temperature, good-quality charcoal burns evenly and produces minimal ash.
Green Olive apple smokin’ chips give a mild, sweet, fruity smoke that’s perfect for pork and poultry. Apple is one of the gentler smoking woods, so it adds flavour without overpowering lighter meats, which makes these an easy choice if you’re new to smoking.
Chips are the format for shorter cooks. They catch and release their smoke quickly, so they suit sausages, chicken pieces, chops and other faster grilling, where you want a hit of smoke in a shorter window. Scatter a handful onto the coals or into a smoker box.
This is the 3 litre pack. We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Green Olive apple smokin’ chunks give a mild, fruity smoke that suits pork, poultry, vegetables and fish. Apple is one of the gentler smoking woods, so it adds flavour without overpowering, which makes it a friendly, all-round choice on the BBQ or in the smoker.
Chunks are the format for longer, low-and-slow cooking. At 3 to 10cm, the pieces smoulder and give off smoke over a longer stretch than chips, so they suit bigger cuts that spend a while on the grill. Add a few to the coals or a smoker box alongside your charcoal.
This is the 5 litre pack. We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Green Olive long burn charcoal briquettes are made for steady, drawn-out BBQ cooking. Pressed from sawdust taken from sustainable hardwoods into pillow-shaped briquettes of around 30 to 70mm, they give a long, consistent heat, typically 3 to 4 hours, so you’re not topping up the coals mid-cook.
Briquettes are the choice when you want an even temperature over a longer session, which makes them ideal for low-and-slow cooking and for feeding a crowd. They suit most BBQs.
This is the 8kg bag. We deliver bagged fuels across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Green Olive Professional lumpwood charcoal is a 10kg bag of proper big-piece charcoal, made from sustainable hardwood such as oak and beech. The pieces are large, ranging from around 5 to 30cm, and that size is the point: bigger lumps burn hotter and longer than the small, broken-up charcoal you get in a cheap bag.
That makes it suitable for professional events as well as home BBQs, so it’s a good choice whether you’re cooking for a crowd or just want a better, more reliable fire in the back garden. The hotter, longer burn means fewer top-ups and more consistent heat across a cook.
It comes ready for standard delivery on bagged fuels across our defined Reading area. Check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Green Olive Whiskey Oak Barrel smokin’ chunks add a deep, smoky flavour with a touch of whiskey-oak character to food cooked on the BBQ or in a smoker. They suit red meats, meaty fish and hearty vegetables, the bolder ingredients that can take a strong smoke.
Chunks are the format for longer, low-and-slow cooking. At 3 to 10cm, they smoulder and give off smoke over a longer stretch than chips, so they’re ideal for bigger cuts that spend a while on the grill. Add a few to the coals or a smoker box alongside your charcoal.
This is the 5 litre pack. We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Green Olive whiskey oak smokin’ chips give a strong, smoky flavour with a touch of whiskey aroma. They suit red meats, meaty fish and hearty vegetables, the bolder ingredients that can take a proper hit of smoke without being overwhelmed.
Chips are the format for shorter cooks. They catch and release their smoke quickly, so they suit faster grilling: steaks, chops, sausages and the like, where you want a burst of smoke in a shorter window. Scatter a handful onto the coals or into a smoker box.
This is the 3 litre pack. We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Angus & Oink’s Montreal Steak & Burger Rub is a bold seasoning built for steak. It’s a savoury blend that buzzes with dill and garlic, with notes of sweet pickle and a peppery finish from oregano, coriander and caraway. It lifts a good steak without masking it.
It’s just as good on burgers, especially smash burgers on a flat plate or in a cast-iron pan, where it forms a tasty, well-seasoned crust. The 220g tub is gluten free, vegetarian and vegan, and it contains celery, so check the full ingredients if you have allergies.
We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Angus & Oink’s Piri Piri Rub brings the smoky, spicy, citrus-edged flavour of a Piri Piri fakeaway to your own grill. It’s a blend of quality smoked paprika, chilli and black pepper with a hint of citrus, the sort of seasoning that turns a plain chicken into something worth talking about.
It’s a favourite on spatchcock chicken: make a paste with a little olive oil and lemon juice, coat the bird and leave it overnight, then cook it slowly on the grill until the skin crisps. It also works as a rub or marinade for meat, fish, shrimp and vegetables, and even stirred into hummus. The 200g tub is gluten free, vegan and vegetarian, and it contains celery, so check the full ingredients if you have allergies.
We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
This restaurant charcoal is a 12kg bag of lumpwood, made up of larger pieces that burn hotter and longer than ordinary charcoal. That bigger, longer-lasting burn is exactly what restaurants and event caterers want, and it works just as well for a home BBQ where you’d rather not be fussing over a fading fire.
The bigger lumps hold their heat, so you get more consistent cooking temperatures and fewer top-ups across a session. Whether you’re grilling for a garden full of people or searing a few steaks, it gives you heat you can rely on.
It’s a generous 12kg bag, good value for anyone who cooks over charcoal regularly. We offer standard delivery on bagged fuels across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
SuperGlow wood pellets are made from 100% natural hardwood and softwood, and they’re a clean, efficient fuel for appliances built to burn pellets. They burn hotter and longer than you might expect for their size, while producing less ash and less smoke, so you get good heat with less mess to clear up afterwards.
They’re a versatile fuel. They can be used in biomass boilers, in pizza ovens and in plenty of other pellet-burning appliances, even hot tubs and jacuzzis with pellet heaters, so a single 15kg bag covers a range of uses around the home and garden.
Each bag is 15kg and priced at £8.50. Wood pellets need to be kept dry to burn well, so store them somewhere sheltered. We offer standard delivery on this product across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner rub by Angus & Oink is a 220g seasoning made for poultry. It builds a properly mouth-watering crust on a roast chicken, and it takes chicken wings to another level on the BBQ or in the oven, so it’s an easy way to lift a midweek dinner or a weekend cook.
It’s gluten free, vegetarian and vegan, which makes it an easy one to keep in the cupboard whoever you’re cooking for. The flavour leans on paprika, garlic, ancho chilli and a savoury, well-rounded blend that suits chicken without overpowering it.
One thing to note on allergens: it contains celery. The full ingredient list is below. Rubs like this go hand in hand with cooking over charcoal, so pair it with a bag of lumpwood for the full effect. We deliver across our defined Reading area, so check your postcode is covered, or call the yard on 0118 9242888.
