how popular/well known are BGE in your area?

fletcherfam · March 14

Seeing the XXL egg got me thinking, which often is not a good thing, are eggs popular in your area? Or well known? here in the Pacific NW no one hardly knows they exist.

canegger · March 14

I'm eastern Ontario and they aren't that well known from what I've seen

U_tarded · March 14

not at all here, i have to explain it to anyone that sees mine. there is a dealer here but i am sure they don't sell a lot. they still have a chimenea on their floor and i bought a mini that was super old version new stock. there is dealers in las vegas about 90 miles north but only like 1-2 there definitely more of a gasser land here.

fishlessman · March 14

there has to be alot more than i know aboutt here in newengland, supermarkets carry lump here all year now but i only know of a few eggs

jlsm · March 14

The local paper's nationally renowned restaurant critic owns one and mentions it occasionally. The president of a university health center in town owns one, and we've talked brisket. I met someone in my neighborhood who owns one. And the largest kitchen store downtown displays it prominently during the "season." The shop put it together for me and did a really stellar job, meaning someone knew what he was doing.

Only one friend had heard of it before I got it, though, and I have to drive 60 miles to Fred's to get good charcoal and rubs. It's not unknown in Philly, but I wouldn't say it's commonly known.

Crispix49 · March 14

Down south here more have at least heard of the BGE, but few understand what it really does or how it works. The conversation is usually comparing it to a gasser

FanOfFanboys · March 14

Crispix49 said:
Down south here more have at least heard of the BGE, but few understand what it really does or how it works. The conversation is usually comparing it to a gasser

I'm in SC and I'd probably agree. Most people by 30ish years old have heard of. Few actually know anything about or why cost so much.

fishlessman · March 14

whats funny is that when you talk to someone here with an egg, alls they cook in it are hotdogs and hamburgers if that tells you something

EddieK76 · March 14

We have I believe 4 distributors in my immediate area yet I don't see them around much in neighborhoods. Most people don't know what it is when I talk about it.

Eggcelsior · March 14

fishlessman said:

whats funny is that when you talk to someone here with an egg, alls they cook in it are hotdogs and hamburgers if that tells you something

Isn't the egg itself called a "barbecue" up in your neck of the woods, as opposed to cooking BBQ-the food, on it?

I know of three people with an egg. Me, my Dad, and a dude whose wife is on the Ski Patrol with me. I was over at their house one time and saw it, so I got all excited. His response is exactly what you wrote above. He had cooked on it 3 times in 8 months. I should have offered him 200 bucks for it(LBGE), I bet I could have made that deal. There are a few dealers within an hour of me, so there has got to be more nearby. I do have to explain it to almost everyone I talk to.

fishlessman · March 14

a barbeque is an event where you call someone up and tell them to come to the barbeque....then serve up hamburgers and hotdogs

Eggcelsior said:

fishlessman said:

whats funny is that when you talk to someone here with an egg, alls they cook in it are hotdogs and hamburgers if that tells you something

Isn't the egg itself called a "barbecue" up in your neck of the woods, as opposed to cooking BBQ-the food, on it?

I know of three people with an egg. Me, my Dad, and a dude whose wife is on the Ski Patrol with me. I was over at their house one time and saw it, so I got all excited. His response is exactly what you wrote above. He had cooked on it 3 times in 8 months. I should have offered him 200 bucks for it(LBGE), I bet I could have made that deal. There are a few dealers within an hour of me, so there has got to be more nearby. I do have to explain it to almost everyone I talk to.

CANMAN1976 · March 14

When I get my egg very soon it will be me and one other person for the entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador it seems. Nobody that I work with or know have even heard of BGE and they think i'm nuts being so interested in such a expensive green egg thingy!!! That will change when they taste the food hopefully!!!!
:)>-

SMITTYtheSMOKER · March 14

The art of cooking/smoking meat in ceramic pots is a well known practice here in the SF Bay Area. There have been importers who have been selling Kamado type cookers for the last 30 years it seems. So we have quite a few younger clients who remember seeing "Big Green Egg" type cookers in their families over the years. Big Green Egg is simply a newer version of a recognized cooker from their past.

FanOfFanboys · March 14

fishlessman said:
a barbeque is an event where you call someone up and tell them to come to the barbeque....then serve up hamburgers and hotdogs

Eggcelsior said:

fishlessman said:

whats funny is that when you talk to someone here with an egg, alls they cook in it are hotdogs and hamburgers if that tells you something

Isn't the egg itself called a "barbecue" up in your neck of the woods, as opposed to cooking BBQ-the food, on it?

I know of three people with an egg. Me, my Dad, and a dude whose wife is on the Ski Patrol with me. I was over at their house one time and saw it, so I got all excited. His response is exactly what you wrote above. He had cooked on it 3 times in 8 months. I should have offered him 200 bucks for it(LBGE), I bet I could have made that deal. There are a few dealers within an hour of me, so there has got to be more nearby. I do have to explain it to almost everyone I talk to.

Don't let Andy Staples read this! A cookout is hotdogs/hamburgers/steak. That's grilling. He rants about it all the time. Funny stuff

GaryLange · March 14

I live in the Springfield, MO. area and we have a store in Springfield and another in Nixa, MO. I live about 3/4 of a mile from the Nixa store and have an egg on each side of me. They seem to be well known down this way as they know of what I speak when I mention the BGE.

Doc_Eggerton · March 14

Local pool store added them to their line a couple months ago in my city. Their meager accessories and inflated prices doom them. I need to keep my eyes open for the sell off.

MrCookingNurse · March 14

I personally know 5 eggheads in my town. But just about everyone I talk to about cooking knows and respects the egg.

I'd have to say here in northern Mississippi the egg has a pretty strong reputation.

Skiddymarker · March 14

Other than one of the two dealers I know in the Greater Vancouver Area, don't know anyone in my neighbourhood who has a BGE. Lots of Primos and Visions around, but no eggs. My neighbour had a Kamado Joe.

There are a number of egg owners in the GVA, but most of those bought in the US and drove the egg across the border. Over and above the US retail (tax included) Canadian Border Services can charge 12%HST. As the Canadian retail is almost 45% more than the US retail, still a bargain.

EddieK76 · March 14

I'm from the North and when I invite people over for food that is made on the Egg....Unless it's something I am cooking Lo and Slow I specifically do not call it a BBQ. It's called grilling or I'm having a cook out....

That's a huge pet peeve of mine :)

J_Que · March 14

My neighbors looked at me like I had three heads when I pulled my egg off the back of my truck. When I told them that it was a smoker they looked even more confused. Needless to say it's not very popular in my neck of the woods. (Just outside of Philadelphia) But I'm not that far from Guru country and Hapster is in the neighborhood, so it's not unheard of. Most people just think it's a Philadelphia Eagles tailgating grill because it's green. I just laugh and say yea...That's what it is.

pwg56 · March 14

I live in NJ and I've heard of one other person in the area who has one but I don't know them. I'm in the land of gas grills and to spend a lot of money on a really heavy round green thing shaped like an egg (and then you have to BUILD a table for it), then you have to use charcoal (but not briquets), then you have to 'light it' and not just 'turn it on' is just too "out there".

Then if people eyes are not completely glazed over if I tell them there are forums where they post pictures of what they cook and there are get togethers around the country organized around cooking on these things that finishes them off.

smokinsooner · March 14

The egghead population in N. Texas is growing like crazy. I've been teaching BGE cooking classes at my distributor's location... 20 people each class... it's really pretty cool. The Plano Eggfest should be hopping this year.

cortguitarman · March 14

I live 5 miles from the nearest dealer and I'm the only person I know that has one. My buddy wants one, but hasn't pulled the trigger because his wife uses their gasser and doesn't want to mess with the charcoal. There are 3 more dealers within an hour, nut I never see them around. Of course, I don't go creeping into peoples back yards regularly.

nolaegghead · March 14

We ate dinner at a friend's apartment about 10 years ago and he had a small BGE. That was the first time I really noticed them. The salmon he cooked was noticeably better than average BBQ salmon. Then years later we saw one on someone's front porch. Can't believe it it never got stolen - probably because 1. they're heavy and 2. no one knows what they are

johnkitchens · March 14

I live in a small town of 3,000, and I know a lot of people here that have them.

Even the ones that don't own them have heard of them. I haven't ran across anyone that hasn't heard of them here.

I would say that BGE is doing pretty good here in Georgia.

chris123stock · March 14

You know I thought that the BGE was unknown in the Northwest, but more people than you think know about the egg, after we started selling them, everyone and their brother came in talking about the egg. Well at least up in bellingham, plus all the Canadians. They love the egg. They come down buy two or three at a time.

blueinatl · March 14

I'm lucky here in ATL, most folks I run into know what they are. There is a restaurant here that cooks on them in their kitchen (Muss & Turners) and another one owned by the same team that cooks some things on them as well (Local Three). I have quite a few friends who have them and I finally got one for Christmas after begging :-) HWOM did a great job!

chris123stock · March 14

Skiddymarker said:

Other than one of the two dealers I know in the Greater Vancouver Area, don't know anyone in my neighbourhood who has a BGE. Lots of Primos and Visions around, but no eggs. My neighbour had a Kamado Joe.
There are a number of egg owners in the GVA, but most of those bought in the US and drove the egg across the border. Over and above the US retail (tax included) Canadian Border Services can charge 12%HST. As the Canadian retail is almost 45% more than the US retail, still a bargain.

There are alot of BGE owners, of course some might be Whiterock and such, but alot of Canadians come down and buy eggs.

allsid · March 14

@fletcherfam I am just a time zone away from you but on about the same latitude and I don't personally know another egg owner in Montana with the exception of my dealer.

OT- any word on a PNW egg fest for 2013?

fletcherfam · March 14

@allsid, yep yep

http://www.pnweggfest.com/index.php

June 8th Seattle though

egger ave · March 14

There are 4 in my neighborhood in Round Rock TX and many more in the area. Texans take their BBQ very seriously. I consider it to be a minor religion. Two of us are definitely members of the BGE cult according to our neighbors. They just don't understand that cooking on gassers is not the same. I suspect having decent year round BBQ weather has a lot to do with it.

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