bbq: What tips or tricks do you have to keep a charcoal bbq going? We're trying to BBQ but it keeps going out, with just hot coals...not cooking anything properly! Help please and thanks!|||I start mine with an electric starter so the coals don't make you food taste like fuel. Don't start to cook your food until all the coals are all the way hot. Make sure the vents underneath are open. don't let the food drip a lot of moisture onto the coals by dripping the marinade into a strainer first if you use it. If you put the lid on make sure it is vented. If flames flare up have a spot where there are no coals to put food so it will smoke, like put coals only on one side of bottom of Bar B Que.