Oh no! Broken Ceramic Top (not lid)

UKMatt

This is a new one on me... I remember from the Austin Eggfest all the tips about taking off the ceramic top (the piece you use to shut down the egg, the one that goes in place of the daisy wheel black thing) before you open the lid.

I have taken that to heart and never dropped the top.

However, I cooked pulled pork at the weekend and forgot to bring in the grid to clean it. It appears one of the local varmints (racoon I think) smelled the bits of pork stuck to the grid and figured out the way to the meat was through the hole in the top.

I found the top 6 feet away from the egg in about 20 pieces.

So... where can I get a new one from?

Thanks
UKMatt

Celtic Wolf

Your dealer or the Mothership's retail store.

Rascal

Try your local dealer.

Gator Bait

 
Hi Matt,

My BGE did not come with the ceramic top. I don't remember why. I just leave the daisy wheel on it at all times.

It ain't as pretty as it once was and the photo makes it look worse then it is but it is going to out live me by a hundred years or so and it works just as well as when it came out of the box. Mine has been outside since the first of the year here in southwest Florida. I look at it this way, it's a grill . . . Just one more option to consider.

Gator

 

ebrooker007

I rubbed mine down with some left over bacon grease after a cook and put it on the grid with the leftover coal to season it. I will see how that works out to minimize rusting.

whtfarmer

I would invest in a real good coon trap. Might even cook that little sucker.