Natural charcoal without intrinsic taste while smoking, wonderful. The coal burns very long once it has been once heated neat. Here, you can expect about 2 hours. That all depends on how intensely you're just smoking on. The lighting designed with me in 3 of 4 cases, something more difficult ... I light my charcoal on my gas stove. The first time I did it was durchgeglüht coal for about 10 to 15 minutes clean. The other times it took for a little longer and, secondly, the coal is cooled extremely fast, making them, as she was later a few seconds on the Shisha, was again not hot enough. Therefore, by me 4 star and Recommendation.