Sad day. Egg is frozen shut.

Egghead_Daron · January 31

The Egg is frozen shut and I don't want to take a chance of damaging gasket prying it apart. Now these poor chicken wings are going to have to go in the oven.

RocEGG · January 31

If it is not too late just open the lower draft door, open the vent on top, and build a newspaper (or other type of) fire in the lower chamber. With enough fire and heat it will defrost the gasket enough to open it. I have had to do that several times.

nashbama · January 31

I bet a hair dryer might thaw it out enough to open without damaging the gasket.

Egghead_Daron · January 31

Brilliant! I knew somebody could help me out of this depression! I'll give it a shot.

YEMTrey · January 31

RocEGG said:

If it is not too late just open the lower draft door, open the vent on top, and build a newspaper (or other type of) fire in the lower chamber. With enough fire and heat it will defrost the gasket enough to open it. I have had to do that several times.

Agreed. I had to do this on my last cook. Bundle of newspapers in thru the bottom vent and had the lid open in no time.

daveyray72 · January 31

I live in Minnesota and have to thaw the gasket all the time in the winter. No big deal. A hair dryer will work, or I use a piece of paper towel soaked in vegetable oil and place that in the bottom through the air intake...by the time the towel burns out, the gasket is usually freed up.

Egghead_Daron · January 31

Tell me more about the ceramic gasket...

Budgeezer · January 31

Egghead_Daron said:

Tell me more about the ceramic gasket...

No gasket= ceramic gasket.

Egghead_Daron · January 31

Ok I feel dumb now. No issues with no gasket at all?

Budgeezer · January 31

Egghead_Daron said:

Ok I feel dumb now. No issues with no gasket at all?

Quite a few eggers have burned off their gasket and never replaced it.

Egghead_Daron · January 31

Good to know. Thanks!

Chef Charles · January 31

It gets routinely cold here in Ottawa and my egg always starts to freeze up during the winter months. For the last few years, I have placed some wood shims between the dome and base once it has cooled down a bit. This year, I have tried something different. I have cut 4 4 inch lenghts of galvanized hanger tape and place them between the dome and base as I shut the egg down (I fold them to fit on top of the edge). It does not seem to interfer in any material way the cooling down process and I have not had any problems what so ever in opening the egg for the next cook.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_302149-33599-AV302149_0__?productId=1244159

Egghead_Daron · January 31

Cool. Thanks for the ideas Chef Charles.

demo · January 31

That means there will be six more weeks of winter.

MrCookingNurse · January 31

I love these post. Nothing ever freezes here in Mississippi. And if it does no body moves cause we are all scared of snow and ice.

For some odd reason it seams exciting to me to be out in -20 trying to thaw my egg to get inside and put a butt on for 16 hours in a blizzard!

Eggcelsior · January 31

Egghead_Daron said:

Good to know. Thanks!

If you want to go the gasket-less route, don't let the dome slam shut.

nolaegghead · January 31

MrCookingNurse said:

I love these post. Nothing ever freezes here in Mississippi. And if it does no body moves cause we are all scared of snow and ice. For some odd reason it seams exciting to me to be out in -20 trying to thaw my egg to get inside and put a butt on for 16 hours in a blizzard!

If it dips below 25 F or so with snow, they freak out here in New Orleans. They'll shut down the bridges and close the schools. They dump sand on the road - WTF?! Sand is like a lubricant on concrete. Salt, mo-Fers, use salt!

GQuiz · January 31

Can't the mangrate prevent it from freezing shut? ;->

MrCookingNurse · January 31

nolaegghead said:

MrCookingNurse said:

I love these post. Nothing ever freezes here in Mississippi. And if it does no body moves cause we are all scared of snow and ice.

For some odd reason it seams exciting to me to be out in -20 trying to thaw my egg to get inside and put a butt on for 16 hours in a blizzard!

If it dips below 25 F or so with snow, they freak out here in New Orleans. They'll shut down the bridges and close the schools. They dump sand on the road - WTF?! Sand is like a lubricant on concrete. Salt, mo-Fers, use salt!

Yup. When we have a forecast of snow Walmart runs out of bread and milk schools shut down and some business close. Crazy people barley know how to drive in the rain. We had a record breaking inch of snow after new year and the town shut down. It was melted before lunch.

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