hello fellow chrome domes:  we had a fun discussion about this topic last year and the year b4.  so... what do U prefer when U R grilling?  charcoal or propane? 

i'll start.  i exclusively love 2 grill & love the taste of charcoal better.  i know that charcoal can get messy but the taste just cannot be beat.  charcoal gets my vote. so... how 'bout U?  charcoal?  or propane?  what's your story?

WARHAWK

As hank hill would say, taste the meat not the heat. Propane all the way

Charcoal for me. I prefer the taste it adds. Also, I like the idea of not having a big bottle of a highly explosive liquid/gas near my house.   

Maybe we're just too lazy but we use an electric grill. It works!
Oops where is that voting option?

Straight charcoal for grilling, charcoal and soaked mesquite chips and indirect heat for smoking.  Never use the liquid fire starter, just a chimney w/ two or three sheets of newspaper to light the fire. 
Propane, nah, I've got a gas stove and grill in the kitchen.

NaTural wood charcoal... no briquets for this guy. A smokestack for starting the coals.... no lighter fluid!
I generally use soaked hickory chips for smoking.... occasionally mesquite.

I like the old primitive way charcoal , try to use the pure stuff and lite with chimney starter. Hate the liquid starter.

OK, OK, so propane is "convenient," but charcoal is authentic.  It's redolent of the cave and the mammoth on the menu.

And not those pressed briquets by the way, only real hardwood charcoal.

And only on a Weber grill, so you can "slow cook" with absolute control.  My "Three Hour Chicken" gathers raves.

Starting the stuff?  A few fallen dry twigs from the lawn (helps keep the lawn policed) and (here I go "modern,") a dash of Coleman Fuel [aka "Scout water] and a single match thrown from a prudent distance.  I'm enough of an adolescent to enjoy the "Whoomp!" and the fireball.  Never fails to get the fire going.