Red stone hardwood sawdust bricks Review

Red stone brand hardwood sawdust bricks in six pack.

Purchased these sawdust bricks at my local feed store. They cost around $3.50 for a pack of 6.

First let me start with the positives.
They are a recycled wood product.
They light very easily.
They are a convenient space saving shape and stacks easily.

Let's look at the package claims.

"Eco friendly bricks burn longer than cord wood" - NOT in my stove

"Produces less than 1/2 percent ash content" - not sure what that means but the ash produced was no less than a comparable weight of my cord wood. My cord wood produced a lighter colored, fluffier ash.

"Takes less than half the storage space of cord wood." - Well... Per weight, maybe. But my cord wood burned a whole lot more efficiently than this product and I'm thinking you may have to buy a whole lot more of these bricks to make up for it. Also... You can't store these bricks outside.

Now for the things I don't like about these bricks.
They are messy. Just as messy as regular cord hardwood. There are sawdust and wood shavings all over the place.
They come wrapped in plastic. Which for me, negates a little from the recycled reusable benefit of these bricks.
They burn very quickly. It took only 2 hours for 1 brick to go from lit to coal.
The coal that these bricks leave behind is very dusty and crumbly.
The price seems minimal but when you take into account how quickly they burn and compare the price to that of cordwood or my favorite extruded logs, they are extremely expensive.

In summary, I will not be buying these bricks again nor can I recommend them for someone has a fuel efficient wood-burning stove and wants and consistent or longer burn. My cord wood is a far better burn and value than these hardwood sawdust bricks. These bricks might be good if you could crumble them and use them for fire starter instead of an alternative to cord wood burning.

This review was of my own honest, personal opinion and experience and was not endorsed in any way by any company the product was purchased personally out of curiosity.