First Cook On My New Demo Egg - T-Bones

tsheehan7

I bought a demo egg at Eggtoberfest at AMS and cooked this the Sunday night I got home. USDA Choice T-bones went on sale at Publix for $7.99 a pound so I bought two that looked nicely marbled and seared them at 650. I was impressed with the control-ability of the Egg, even though I overcooked the steaks. I think it's my last time buying Publix beef since the quality is poor on about 3 of every 4 purchases. Decent first try though.

They turned out a little over medium, when I would have preferred a little under medium.


Forgot to add - I sprinkled one with DP Cow Lick and one with DP Raising the Steaks. I think I went too light on the rub and too light on the salt because I thought the flavor was lacking. More rub and a nice salt coating next time.

tsbrady

I am curious how much of a hassle it was getting your demo, I was thinking about it but was not real thrilled about the possibility of waiting in line for 2-3 hours, was the egg cleaned of ashes and cooled? I decided to pull the trigger and get one at eggtoberfest but while I was standing in line to pay for it the sold out!

Mike in Abita

For us it wasn't a hassle at all. We ended up getting two large eggs, one for friends in Atlanta and another for a friend in Abita.

This was not my first egg bought at Eggtoberfest. I bought a MED two years ago for us. After sitting in that line for a few hours, we were better prepared. We asked Jennifer where they would be lining up to pick up the eggs and once known, we camped out around 4PM. We were the sixth car in line and once they opened the gates at 6PM we started moving up. I think we were completely loaded and heading back to Suwanee around 6:30. When we left I did notice there was quite a long line of vehicles waiting, as one of the first in line the organization was a little off, but I am hoping they worked through the paperwork a little faster and thus sped up the process.

Maybe others will chime in with their experience.

tsheehan7

Waited over 2 hours. It was cleaned out though. Probably not worth the $200 I saved.

cookn biker

Time vs money...really?
Meal looks good!

tsbrady

Mike, is Jennifer with BGE or the distributor in Macon?

Mike in Abita

Distributor. Her name is Jennifer Vance. If you need to contact her, here is her email. She was very helpful with the purchase of these two EGGs.

jvance@georgiahearthsales.com

tsheehan7

Well, when you consider the fact that the "Atlanta" eggtoberfest was a good 50 miles from Atlanta, it felt like a long day after driving 1.5 hours (I live in the northern suburbs) there, walking around eggfest for 4-5 hours, waiting 2 hours in line, and then driving 1.5 hours home.

tsbrady

Mike, if you come back and look at this thread, thanks for the info!