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Did I clean my egg or ruin it?
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Wally_Wabash_03
Posts: 95
So I've been cooking with the egg for probably 20 cooks, including 3 overnighters. With winter coming, I thought I'd try and clean it a bit, so I let it run it approximately 650 for 90 minutes. When I opened it up, there was a very thin layer that flaked and peeled towards the top of the dome (pic attached). Is that the fat that has burned and is coming off, or did I damage the inside of the dome?
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No damage done, I would take a soft (brass) brush and get all the flakey stuff off while you are at it. I would not clean the Egg in the future unless you start to get flakes dropping on the food.
Seasoning in the Egg is nice, don't be such a clean freak!
-SMITTY
from SANTA CLARA, CA
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Looks like this? 3 yrs. worth of creosote, carbon and fat... gone in 30 min. No damage to Egg. First time it's been white since I bought it!
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+1 with Smitty-after all, it will take on the same color the next cook. You apparently dodged the "ruin the gasket" event that usually comes along with the high-temp cooks. Fear not, the gasket will go soon enough. You may want to contact the BGE Mothership (HQ) about a replacement gasket-people have been getting them "gratis" within a year of purchase. FWIW-Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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Your Egg is fine.
What you post is, ahem, eggzactly what you want. Aside from the gasket, no one on the forum has ever had a problem from a cleaning burn that I've read.. The ceramics are very heat resistant. As your pic shows, the coat of gunk just turned to ash.
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As everyone else has said you are fine. Just to add you can clean the flakes off with some balled up tin foil too. Gdenby..."eggsactly"...ahem :((
Steve
Caledon, ON
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Your egg is ruined...message me and I'll come pick it up.Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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hry deckhand ...how did you clean it? just a hi temp burn?I grill therefore I am.....not hungy.
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ribmaster said:hry deckhand ...how did you clean it? just a hi temp burn?Have the Permatex and the Rutland gasket material to replace everything...whenever we have a warm afternoon and I feel energetic... Next summer, probably. Will continue to do cleaning burns periodically...
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I have a nearly full bag of Cowboy that I did not like the flavor of. I think this is a good use for it.George
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When I do a clean burn, I take my dome thermo out, calibrate it while the egg is in full after-burn. To my mind, no sense spinning the needle for the sake of spinning the needle. I also put my setter in legs down, grid below the setter. As noted above, I just burn enough to get the worst off.Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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"Your egg is ruined...message me and I'll come pick it up." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!Any cook you can walk away from is a good one.
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Worst that can happen in a clean burn is you burn up the gasket and ruin the dome thermometer. I keep my dome thermo loose now (no clip) so it's easy to remove when I do a clean burn. BGE sent me a new (new style, I think) gasket after my first clean burn totally destroyed the original gasket.
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