Kingsford Match Light Instant Charcoal Briquettes, BBQ Charcoal for Grilling, 8 Pounds

I am somewhat disappointed. I always bought Matchlight because all you had to do is touch a match to it and the bricquets would immediately light with a good steady flame, and they would be entirely gray and ready to cook over in about 10 to 15 minutes. Not any longer. Now I ave to either soak then with lighter fluid, or what I have been doing lately is use small squares of camphor to light the charcoal. And it take longer for them to completely light. Another formerly good product that someone messed with, probably to save money and cut production costs per unit. This is happening with a lot of consumer products these days. From here on out I will just get regular charcoal and use camphor to light it.

First, I'm a Kingsford Charcoal guy. I love their product. Unfortunately, I bought a double bag of Match Light and thought I upgraded to save time in getting the grill going; however, the charcoal just would not light. Had to resort to using a charcoal starter. Took way longer than it should. I wish I would have read the comments on here. Seems to be hit or miss if you get a good bag. Not really worth the risk for the money spent.

Doesn't light and still have to use lighter fluid which is frustrating when paying more for the ones you aren't supposed to need lighter fluid for.

God awful! Don't waste you time or money! Use normal charcoal and lighter fluid. This product is an absolute joke!

I was not impressed with the seller the bag of charcoal was cut open and smelled moldy. The charcoal was what I ordered since I've used before so the product was okay.

For the past year when we buy this most of the time it won't even light when it is first opened, no tear in the bag or anything. Not sure why the quality has gone down but now we have to buy lighter fluid to keep around so now we are looking into buying another brand.

On vacation trying to grill for my family. I've been standing out here trying to light this charcoal for over an hour. Don't waste your money on Kingsford. Use any other brand, ready to grill in 10 minutes? Yeah right. I'd really like a refund because Kingsford has ruined this night of vacation. If there was a choice to give this product 0 stars, that's what it would get.

We used a small amount once for Smores and they worked fine. Then when I was having people over on a Sunday evening for steak, THEY WON'T LIGHT. HAVING TO START WITH NEWSPAPER. EPIC FAIL. VERY EXPENSIVE. If I knew I needed lighter fluid I would have gotten some, but it's Sunday night and I have people over so I can't!

This is the worst charcoal product I have ever used. Had I known that I would need lighter fluid to light these anyway, I would have just bought regular charcoal. These coals do NOT light easily at all. We've tried newspaper, cardboard, matches, almost everything else short of pouring lighter fluid all over it, and nothing seems to work very effectively. We've been trying for over 30 minutes just to get the coals to LIGHT, let alone heat up enough to cook on. The one time we were successful in getting them to light, it took over an hour and 15 minutes to heat up appropriately. I will NEVER buy this product again, and I would not recommend that anybody else waste their money on it either.

Camping Trip - 1/20-1/22 We purposely purchased the Kingsford Match Light because we wanted the charcoal to light quickly and give off good heat. Well, on the first morning - my husband tried to light the charcoal briquets - it took forever for them to light. Then after they did finally light and the coals starting turning color - no real heat. It took us an hour to make our bacon and eggs on the grill. That night we wanted another fire - same problem with the rest of the bag. We were truly disappointed in the product. We have used Kingsford before but not anymore. We are afraid the same will happen again. (code on bag M2 1 315 3B 0702)