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First Egg, First Post

Just picked up a L BGE last week. Love to BBQ and smoke. I’m going to attempt a few whole chickens this weekend. -30 deg C out today with wind so I hope the weather turns a bit for tomorrow. I’m not sure how the egg performs in that cold. This will be my first cook on the egg. Hope they turn out. Thanks for all the good reading on this forum. A lot of good tips. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
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  • Welcome aboard ! The Egg will with stand the cold with no problems, the cook is a different story. Good Luck !
    Ova B.
    Fulton MO
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Welcome. I wonder, as hardy as you Canadians are, what is "a bit"

    -28 C?


    ;)
  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    Welcome to the forum.
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.   

  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387

    "a bit" - looks like -22 deg C tomorrow with wind. So looking better for sure. I'll keep the beer and rums going, All good.

     

     

    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387

    Having a hard time posting my table, just attempting it again here. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    @nolaegghead - You best step up man.

    Our new friend has a leather couch in his man-bear-cave.
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    @nolaegghead - You best step up man.

    Our new friend has a leather couch in his man-bear-cave.
    Welcome to the forum!

    This could become an arms(chair) race!
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    I love lamp..
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    edited January 2013
    Crap! What should the nickname be for the largest non-militarized border in the world?

    "Iron Curtain" doesn't seem to have the necessary je nes sais quoi.
  • Congrats on the new Egg.

     

    -SMITTY     

    from SANTA CLARA, CA

  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    We gotta do something about all these Canucks infiltrating the forum guys!

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    you a black kettle!
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  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387
    Thanks for the welcome guys. And im sure there is no issue with Canadians now is there...
    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    (Little Steven pretends he's not Canadian just to mock the Americans, which he secretly wishes he was, even though, I, for one, don't understand that except it may be related to being vertically challenged) :D
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    Crap! What should the nickname be for the largest non-militarized border in the world? "Iron Curtain" doesn't seem to have the necessary je nes sais quoi.
    The South Canadian Mason-Dixon Tariff Curtain?
    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414

    (Little Steven pretends he's not Canadian just to mock the Americans, which he secretly wishes he was, even though, I, for one, don't understand that except it may be related to being vertically challenged) :D

    Fear not, we shall make this his Leipzig and Waterloo.
  • Adamd
    Adamd Posts: 160
    Man and I was thinking my heating bills were high last month and the temp was average around 30 haha. -22C is just too cold for me ;)

    Good luck and enjoy!
  • CANMAN1976
    CANMAN1976 Posts: 1,593
    Who wouldn't want to be a Canuck with only 75 fresh cm of snow in the past 24hrs in st johns Newfoundland and 110km/h winds!!!! Damn my egg better still be there in the morning!!!


    Hows ya gettin' on, me ol ****



    Kippens.Newfoundland and Labrador. (Canada).
  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    LOL, I have been in the pool and the hot tub today.  Now about July when the mosquitoes, Love Bugs, and 100 degree temps have arrived we might have another discussion.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387
    I heard you guys were getting hit hard out east CANMAN. Sorry to hear that. I'd still be trying out the new egg tomorrow though. The bbq wouldn't cut it in that wind. Could be -40 tomorrow and I would still be trying it out for first time.
    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • Adamd said:
    Man and I was thinking my heating bills were high last month and the temp was average around 30 haha. -22C is just too cold for me ;)

    Good luck and enjoy!

    And I haven't been able to turn off my A/C for more than 1 or 2 days this "winter". I like seasons, so it is annoying that my heater hasn't been on since 2010. It is truly balmy out here...74 with 90% humidity tonight. It's gross. @albertaegger - welcome aboard
    "America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland." -Tennessee Williams
  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
    @AlbertaEgger - Welcome, good luck with the cook.....

    Here on the left coast it was sunny today, will send it over the Rockies to you for tomorrow. Getting real cool for lotus land tonight, going down to -2C, I might have to bring in the hose...
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387

    Thanks for the updates. looks like we will warm up to -23 tomorrow with wind. So not bad, still looking like i will get my first cook in with the new egg. Summer is just around the corner though and i cant wait. I usually rotissie my birds, and i always inject them, so any advice on a vertical bird would be great, indirect, and debating injection or not....

    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    Adamd said:
    Man and I was thinking my heating bills were high last month and the temp was average around 30 haha. -22C is just too cold for me ;)

    Good luck and enjoy!

    And I haven't been able to turn off my A/C for more than 1 or 2 days this "winter". I like seasons, so it is annoying that my heater hasn't been on since 2010. It is truly balmy out here...74 with 90% humidity tonight. It's gross. @albertaegger - welcome aboard
    NEWB_IN_NOLA isn't kidding.  It's so humid I could put out a fire with my leafblower.
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  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387
    NOLAEGGHEAD, any comment on the vertical chicken? Injection or not? And i have seen a bunch of comments on haveing leg up for the egg...
    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    You could do it plate setter legs up, maybe a drip pan with an air gap under the plate setter, then the grill grate, bird rigged up on some kinda apparatus that holds its ass and all the dark meat up into the hot part of the dome. 

    Or you could do it raised direct with the ass facing the lump. 

    Or you could spatchcock it.

    You can inject if ya want.  Just try it different ways.  If you want to minimize the variables, it's easier to start simple.

    Good luck, post pics and read the forum and you'll lessen the slope of the learning curve. ;)
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    I love lamp..
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    (Little Steven pretends he's not Canadian just to mock the Americans, which he secretly wishes he was, even though, I, for one, don't understand that except it may be related to being vertically challenged) :D
    Who dat chu callin Canajun? I from da bayou cher'. We call da bayou da Niagara scarpment here

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387

    Well, just fired up the Egg for the first time, cant belive how fast it gets to temp. Goint to try some birds. Wish me luck.  

    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • CANMAN1976
    CANMAN1976 Posts: 1,593
    Remember we wanna see some pics too!!!

    [-O<
    Hows ya gettin' on, me ol ****



    Kippens.Newfoundland and Labrador. (Canada).
  • AlbertaEgger
    AlbertaEgger Posts: 1,387
    Will do, I have pretty crappy internet service out here though. Turned out to be a nice day, - 14, perfect.
    County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817

    Well, just fired up the Egg for the first time, cant belive how fast it gets to temp. Goint to try some birds. Wish me luck.  

    Good luck man. If you aren't back in 90 minutes we'll send the dogsleds

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON