"dakota2112" > wrote in message
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> Ok, so a few days ago, we grilled steaks on the Weber kettle over a
> blazing hot fire of Royal Oak hardwood charcoal. Then last night, we
> grilled some brats and sausages, and when I went to fire up the grill,
> I found what looks like a big lump of melted metal in with the
> left-over coals from steak night. I can only describe it as looking
> like a big chunk of volcanic rock, but it was definitely melted metal,
> because I checked it with a magnet. This thing was bigger than my
> outstretched palm, and almost as big as my outstretched hand, and felt
> as heavy as you'd expect from a chunk of metal that size.
>
> When we did the steaks, I used two chimneys full of hardwood, and I
> don't recall seeing anything out of the ordinary or heavy come tumbling
> out of the bag and into the chimneys, but then again I wasn't exactly
> looking for a chunk of metal either.
>
> Anyone ever have something like this happen to them, or know what this
> chunk of metal might've been? Just curious.
>
>

Nothing that big, but I have found an occasional rock or meteorite in a bag
of RO. It happens rarely.

Jack