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Grandpas Grub
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Congratulations and welcome to the forum.
When I got my first egg it took me a while to find the 'stuff’ discussed here on the forum. What follows below are posts and sites that help me getting to know and use my BGE(s) better. You will find links to some of the posts, member sites with great information, recipes and toys/accessories for the egg. This is just a starting point and quick reference to help you on your egg'n adventure. Welcome and congratulations with your egg.
Feel free to copy or bookmark this post/page for future reference.
Where to begin:
. Make sure you read the manual
. Watch the video provided with your new egg
. Calibrate your dome thermometer. Instructions are included with the egg.
Now, it's time to 'mouse around', enjoy while visiting these sites:
- BGE Headquarters - The Mother Ship Home Page
- New stuff from BGE - What's new from BGE
- The Egg Components What everything in & on the egg is called
- RRP's Forum Navigating and Forum Settings Help
- Recipes - BGE HQ Recipes
- Recipes - Forum Recipes
- Recipes - Keep On Eggin Recipe Book 2011 A ~ thebtls. 225 pages and is a huge download.
- Videos - BGE Cooking Videos
- Boiling Point Calculator - From the Forum
Quick Tip - (on or off the egg) For great tasting food, cook food to temperature and use time as a reference.
- A Cut Above - Cuts of Beef, Pork, Lamb ~ De-bone Trout & Salmon ~ Discussion & Visuals
- When is the food done - Food Cooking Temperatures
- USDA Is My Food Safe - How Temperatures Affect Food
- USDA Cold Storage - Freezing and Food Safety
- USDA - Safe Food Handling Fact Sheets
- Discussion regarding - Letting Meat Rest After Cooking
- Egg Temperatures - Visual Guide to Vent Settings & Clear Smoke
- A visual guide to - Good & Bad Smoke
- One of many ways to light the lump - Paper Towel & Oil
- Thermometers - Pit Probe Placement
- Information regarding - Smoking Woods
- Setting up for an Over Night Cook - Step by Step Visual Guide
- How to post a picture on the forum - Using Photobucket - Visual Guide
- How to post a slideshow on the forum - Using Photobucket - Visual Guide
- What is Flashback (important) - Understanding Flashback
- Quick Tip: Band / Hige Timing and Readjusting
A few personal favorite cooks I have found to be easy, fun and result in some darn good eats:
- Chicken & Veggies
- Pot Roast in Dutch Oven
- Pork Char Sui
- Pulled Pork, Shoulders (Butt and Picnic)
- A Great Egg'd Chicken Salad
Quick Tip - How much meat should I buy to feed Pulled Pork for a group of people. Take the number of people eating and divide by 2.4
- Prime Rib
- Buckboard Bacon
- Pastrami
- Chili Verde
- Mad Max Turkey & Gravy
Forum member sites, good places to spend some, you will find a wealth of knowledge being shared:
- Thirdeye - Recipe Section
- Thirdeye - Thirdeye Front Page Don't pass up the other BBQ/Smoking help on the site.
- Wess B - Recipes, Tips & Fest Cookbooks
- Nakedwiz - Lump Database, Recipes & Tips
Thermometers:
Most forum members will advise to get an instant read thermometer. The Thermopen is a well worth investment, don't settle for lookalikes. The MTC is also an good thermometer, pick up the thin fast reading probe. Both are fast reading and extremely accurate.
- Thermoworks - Fast Read Thermapen
- Thermoworks - MTC Mini Handheld (get the 2 sec read probe)
- Maverick ET-732 - (abt. $59.95 online no s/h)
Tools, Toys and Must Have's:
Some forum members who offer Tools & Accessories, you will also find recipes and tips at some of these sites - take time to look and learn:
- Thirdeye - ThirdHand Grid Lift, Wiggle Rods, Micro Adjuster and ThirdFinger
- Ceramic Grills Store, Egg Accessories - One of my favorites, the Adjustable Rig & Spider
- Dizzy Pig Rubs - (DP) Rubs
- Chubby's accessories for the small egg - Grill Mates
- Lawn Ranger - Custom Handles and Tools
- Big'un - Carnivore BBQ Sauce
- HungryMan - Custom Printed T-Shirts & Wearable’s
Some of the Powered Vent Systems Available
- DigiQ
- Stoker (my preference)
- Aurber - (lower cost units - pit control only)
- iQue 110 - (lower cost unit - pit control only)
Enjoy, GG
When I got my first egg it took me a while to find the 'stuff’ discussed here on the forum. What follows below are posts and sites that help me getting to know and use my BGE(s) better. You will find links to some of the posts, member sites with great information, recipes and toys/accessories for the egg. This is just a starting point and quick reference to help you on your egg'n adventure. Welcome and congratulations with your egg.
Feel free to copy or bookmark this post/page for future reference.
Where to begin:
. Make sure you read the manual
. Watch the video provided with your new egg
. Calibrate your dome thermometer. Instructions are included with the egg.
Now, it's time to 'mouse around', enjoy while visiting these sites:
- BGE Headquarters - The Mother Ship Home Page
- New stuff from BGE - What's new from BGE
- The Egg Components What everything in & on the egg is called
- RRP's Forum Navigating and Forum Settings Help
- Recipes - BGE HQ Recipes
- Recipes - Forum Recipes
- Recipes - Keep On Eggin Recipe Book 2011 A ~ thebtls. 225 pages and is a huge download.
- Videos - BGE Cooking Videos
- Boiling Point Calculator - From the Forum
Quick Tip - (on or off the egg) For great tasting food, cook food to temperature and use time as a reference.
- A Cut Above - Cuts of Beef, Pork, Lamb ~ De-bone Trout & Salmon ~ Discussion & Visuals
- When is the food done - Food Cooking Temperatures
- USDA Is My Food Safe - How Temperatures Affect Food
- USDA Cold Storage - Freezing and Food Safety
- USDA - Safe Food Handling Fact Sheets
- Discussion regarding - Letting Meat Rest After Cooking
- Egg Temperatures - Visual Guide to Vent Settings & Clear Smoke
- A visual guide to - Good & Bad Smoke
- One of many ways to light the lump - Paper Towel & Oil
- Thermometers - Pit Probe Placement
- Information regarding - Smoking Woods
- Setting up for an Over Night Cook - Step by Step Visual Guide
- How to post a picture on the forum - Using Photobucket - Visual Guide
- How to post a slideshow on the forum - Using Photobucket - Visual Guide
- What is Flashback (important) - Understanding Flashback
- Quick Tip: Band / Hige Timing and Readjusting
A few personal favorite cooks I have found to be easy, fun and result in some darn good eats:
- Chicken & Veggies
- Pot Roast in Dutch Oven
- Pork Char Sui
- Pulled Pork, Shoulders (Butt and Picnic)
- A Great Egg'd Chicken Salad
Quick Tip - How much meat should I buy to feed Pulled Pork for a group of people. Take the number of people eating and divide by 2.4
- Prime Rib
- Buckboard Bacon
- Pastrami
- Chili Verde
- Mad Max Turkey & Gravy
Forum member sites, good places to spend some, you will find a wealth of knowledge being shared:
- Thirdeye - Recipe Section
- Thirdeye - Thirdeye Front Page Don't pass up the other BBQ/Smoking help on the site.
- Wess B - Recipes, Tips & Fest Cookbooks
- Nakedwiz - Lump Database, Recipes & Tips
Thermometers:
Most forum members will advise to get an instant read thermometer. The Thermopen is a well worth investment, don't settle for lookalikes. The MTC is also an good thermometer, pick up the thin fast reading probe. Both are fast reading and extremely accurate.
- Thermoworks - Fast Read Thermapen
- Thermoworks - MTC Mini Handheld (get the 2 sec read probe)
- Maverick ET-732 - (abt. $59.95 online no s/h)
Tools, Toys and Must Have's:
Some forum members who offer Tools & Accessories, you will also find recipes and tips at some of these sites - take time to look and learn:
- Thirdeye - ThirdHand Grid Lift, Wiggle Rods, Micro Adjuster and ThirdFinger
- Ceramic Grills Store, Egg Accessories - One of my favorites, the Adjustable Rig & Spider
- Dizzy Pig Rubs - (DP) Rubs
- Chubby's accessories for the small egg - Grill Mates
- Lawn Ranger - Custom Handles and Tools
- Big'un - Carnivore BBQ Sauce
- HungryMan - Custom Printed T-Shirts & Wearable’s
Some of the Powered Vent Systems Available
- DigiQ
- Stoker (my preference)
- Aurber - (lower cost units - pit control only)
- iQue 110 - (lower cost unit - pit control only)
Enjoy, GG
Comments
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Hrrumpf. There you go ingratiating yourself to all the newbies again... :laugh:
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:laugh:
Kent -
I sent you an email Kent.
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got it and responded.
kent -
I for one appreciate your links to links of helpful links. We also have Boston-stoker's links to helpful links of other helpful links, and it would be great to link these links under one link.
Here is a link which links your links to his links under one link. I call it:
My Definitive Collection of Links to Links of other Links
comprising: Boston Stoker's Links to Links of other Helpful Links and Grandpa's Grub's List of Helpful Links to Helpful Links and Links of other helpful links and 2fategghead's signature line which links to Grandpa's Grub's Links of other helpful Links
If anyone links to my post, I would not be upset, but would appreciate a little recognition, that's all. :laugh:ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
:laugh:
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in the future, it might be helpful for newbies if we'd simply link to my collection of collections of collected links, that way, we can have one easy collected source for all collected links, for which i can take credit, even though I didn't do anything other than collect links of links to other people's links.ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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Very nice Fidel. I have a updated link to send you...one version of the now 286 page book is 80MB and great for online viewing, the other is 163 MB and provides awesome colors for printing. I'll email the links to you when they are done.
Great resource you posted here.
Has anyone ever put together a list of the blogs and websites the forum members have out there? I'm only aware of a dozen or so personally, I'm thinking there are tons more.Visit my blog, dedicated to my Big Green Egg Recipies at http://www.bigtsbge.blogspot.com You can also follow my posts on FaceBook under the name Keep On Eggin' or the link http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Keep-On-Eggin/198049930216241 -
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The iQue 110 link is dead. If the product died, I'm glad I didn't waste my time doing a review. I was getting close to buying one....The Naked Whiz
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I checked it out just before I e'd you. I recheck my code and correct.
Kent -
corrected the link.
Kent -
Tony,
Perhaps you have us confused. Fidel is large and ugly, I am smaller in stature but incredibly good looking.
SteveSteve
Caledon, ON
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I haven't drank a Tab in a long time.
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Please post pictures LS...this I have to see, ha.Visit my blog, dedicated to my Big Green Egg Recipies at http://www.bigtsbge.blogspot.com You can also follow my posts on FaceBook under the name Keep On Eggin' or the link http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Keep-On-Eggin/198049930216241
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