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ddog27

I was cooking pizza in my large egg and I left the lid open a little to long and the fire flamed up. When I went to use my egg again the lid was stuck shut. Any tips to get it back open again? Or do I need to pry it open?

WessB

If you can get a sharp knife or razor knife in between the 2 gaskets, you can most likely "carefully" cut them back apart..doesn't always work, but I have seen it done..

BobS

You probably toasted your gaskets.

You might try putting a starter cube in throught the vent and see if a little heat will help it open.

If that doesn't work, you probably will need to use a thin knife blade to cut it open.

Whichever, your gasket is toast, but you can cook most things without it.

AZRP

Slip a lit starter cube in through the draft door, don't have anything on top. That should get your coal lit and I'm guessing it will open around 400 degrees. -RP

WessB

If he can cleanly seperate the 2 halves I wouldn't necessarilly say that the gasket is "toast"

fishlessman

do NOT pry near the handle location top and bottom in the front, there is a weak section that will chip out on you if you do.

PWise

You're most probably gonna have to pry it open very carefully... It happened to me once with the lump on fire... it wouldnt budge even near 700°F until we bumbed it a little with a 2by4....

cheers!

Celtic Wolf

Just slightly warmed bread..

greasy gaskets will stick too..

WessB

I been burnin up the bandwidth today....

Celtic Wolf

I have noticed

Jeeves

For some (newbie) reason, I decided to clean mine one time by cranking it up as hot as it could go.

Next day, it wouldn't open.

I ended up using a metal scraper (used for drywall). I wedged it in on a couple spots.

Needless to say, I ordered a Rutland, which still has yet to be installed.