Whats the worst mistake you've made using the BGE?

Roanokesmoke

in other words, are there any memorable mistakes or disasters you've had while using your BGE? It can involve the food itself or anything else pertaining to your cook. Personally, I just had my first one last Thursday. It wasn't anything too big but it was enough to really bother me. I was doing a mad max turkey at 325, and I had previously read it would take approx. 17-19 minutes per lb. However, for whatever reason, my turkey finished much faster---about 14 minutes a lb. Thus, when I checked the temperature (about 30 minutes out from when I thought it would be done), the breast temperature read 185. Suffice to say I was shocked and a bit upset. The turkey still tasted fine...but it could have been much better.

BENTE

wish i would have never bought my first grill and instead i wish i would have bought a egg


other than that flashback wearing only boxers

Zippylip

Just can't seem to remember the burping thing :huh:

fishlessman

my turkeys always go 12 to 15 minutes following maxs directions, might have something to do with the pan or max's more frequent basting. corned beef ribs are the worst thing ive found to cook in an egg, the only thing ive ever tossed

Celtic Wolf

Is this memorable enough?? :woohoo:

Ashman

That would have to be taking $40.00 worth of NY Strip steaks and turning them into something the dog had a little trouble chewing. And yes, there was adult beverages and good friends involved. The good thing was that I had plenty of beverages to feed the hungry.

Liv'n & Learn'n
Gordon

Celtic Wolf

Corned Beef RIBS?? Where on earth did you fine those??

Ashman

You win!!!

Celtic Wolf

Get the Lawn Ranger to make you a sign

"Burb The Baby"

:woohoo:

Celtic Wolf

Not to worry cause all the King's men put Humpty back together again cheaper then I could ever image.

gdenby

About my third cook, I took some beef short ribs off too soon (didn't have a quick read thermometer,) and shut the Egg down. Shortly thereafter, I realized that they needed more time, and so went back to the Egg, stirred the coals and saw a bit of glow, opened the vent wide, removed the daisy, put the ribs back on, and hoped the fire would start back up. Went inside for 10 minutes, then went back out to see if the fire had returned. It had returned, and then some. Dome therm was passing 750, and a bluish jet was coming out the top...

Once we chipped thru the char on the outside, the inside of the ribs were pretty good.

fishlessman

this is not the red stuff, its corned by a couple OLDE butcher shops up here, each with their own recipe, and i know you dont like bolied dinners, but you might like this stuff, not soapy salty tasting like the mass produced stuff, no soaking needed, it cooks dark brown when boiled. makes a descent pastrami, but those ribs need to be boiled. i posted the pastrami to show the color, and this butchers corned beef is alot redder than the other butcher i buy from


the ribs look innocent enough, dont let that fool you

Lawn Ranger

Frying these very onion rings for the meal shown (first and last time). This was before the fire. Fortunately neither the Egg nor house was damaged. However, my ego was severely charred. And, with the help of some good friends on this Forum, it continues to be so until this day..

Mike

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Early on I did a few cooks before the fire was burning clean.

I was using a tinfoil pie pan as a drip pan, it was pretty full and I pulled it out while the coals were still going, gripped it with a pair of pliers and proceeded to spill it all over the place. Didn't get burned though...

Another less dangerous screw up was taking a beercan chicken off the grill - chicken falling apart, beercan stuck to chicken butt, lifted the bird out and can deployed dumping fluids into Egg while I wrestled the disintegrating bird onto a plate and then went to pick up the 350 can...

dhuffjr

nmsg

dhuffjr

Cooked a small flat direct once. It would have made a nice piece of stone for Leroy's chicken coup if I'd kept it.

Celtic Wolf

It just because we Lub you...

or we haven't got our handles yet :woohoo:

Mainegg

YES cleaned the ash out and set the ash pan on top of the lump box that was just a Rubbermaid tote and forgot it. about 2 hours later I smell nasty smoke and go out to the back deck to find the whole tote smoking and the side melted out and dumping on to the deck......panicking I try to save the LUMP?!?! :blink: LOL rip everything out of the small egg and dump it in there and shut it up tight to put it out. threw what was left out onto the pool deck , then realized it was on the looplock pool cover $$$ and melting through the snow FAST. going back and forth between the deck that is smoldering and the pool cover hoping it would snow hard to hide it all from Neil till I can figure out a good story of why it is not MY fault! :evil:

small egg stuffed to the top with lump from tote

there is a loop lock cover and pool under there!

the deck :(

dinner was still good :P

Firetruck

When I first got my large, I started some lump in a chimney starter, poured it in the bottom of the egg. Then I poured more lump over that which smothered the fire. (I thought I was going to do a low and slow :huh: ) I had shut the lid and went in the house for about 10 min. Walked back out opened the lid, and noticed all the rich thick smoke in the egg. I thought to myself well I guess it needs a little more time. Well by opening the lid it gave the smoldering fire just enough o2 to light off and boy did it. Just about the time I shut the lid, that thing went off like a jet and blew flame and smoke out the lower air damper all the way across my back porch. It actually blew a pile of leaves of the porch. Not only that but when I finally got the nerve to open the thing back up, I couldn't. Yep it melted the gasket together.

Some lessons need to be taught by someone else before trying on your own. I'm just glad I took flying lessons in a real airplane instead of buying an ultralight like I wanted to. No telling what would have happened.

stike

forgotten hot dog.

stike

it helps if you put the "no messge" thing in the subject line! gaaaaar :pinch:

hahahaha
see, otherwise we still open the post.
:unsure:

Celtic Wolf

hahahaha

Celtic Wolf

Wel I never and from the sounds of it I hope I never do :woohoo:

I boil things.. Pasta, rice, water for tea.. stuff like that.. :woohoo:

Fidel

This one time I accidentally posted this other dude's photo as my own.....


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And he was the guy that started the Woosday thread.

stike

whatever happened to that?

Celtic Wolf

He popped in once this year..

Jeffersonian

There are two, one of which I'm embarrassed to even mention.

1. I enormously undercooked a standing rib roast and had to finish slices off in a pan with olive oil.
2. I had run out of lump, didn't have time to get any more and used a leftover half bag of Matchlight I found in the garage. Good gravy, what a stupid, stupid idea that was. :(

RRP

maybe 7 years ago on a Sunday morning I attempted Mrs YB's potato breakfast casserole. One step was to cover the potatoes with a quart of hot water. I failed to read the next sentence saying to then drain them. Instead all that liquid went in. I cooked and cooked that watery goop and it never set up even an hour after it was supposed to be done and that's when I caught my error! T'was toast and jelly for breakfast while I cleaned up the mess!

Beli

Invited my curious father in law over, he tried to peek inside the egg at 700° dome......it literally exploded sending the cast iron cap flying several meters and sending him over some flower pots....luckily managed to grab hold of his arm and avoided a very frightened old man from falling...

Celtic Wolf

Ouch!!!

I am glad my father-in-law can't get near my eggs. I could never stop him from falling. Worse I don't thinking I could out run the bullet. :laugh:

Little Steven

Hey,

I resent that. I am not old enough to be your Father In Law. Or did it really happen twice. I was going to post that as my worse mistake. :laugh:

Steve