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Egg carten

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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    MrCookingNurse  You are welcome.
    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.   

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    @mickey
    I'm sorry I jumped ya. I'll do a better job of adding some cooks to the forum :-h


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  • tazcrash
    tazcrash Posts: 1,852
    edited April 2013
    Darn, 
    well I guess this link is too late: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTBPdVpdMc



    Damn, I think it would have been more amusing if I could have embedded it. 
    Bx - > NJ ->TX!!! 
    All to get cheaper brisket! 
  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    edited April 2013
    <BLOCKQUOTE class=Quote>
    <DIV class=QuoteAuthor><A href="http://eggheadforum.com/profile/54619/MrCookingNurse">MrCookingNurse</A> said:</DIV>
    <DIV class=QuoteText>@mickey I'm sorry I jumped ya. I'll do a better job of adding some cooks to the forum :-h </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>You post and I will be the first to tell you good or bad. I may have overreatcted just a bit (you think?). Hell as I get olded I get more like VI eveyday. I am sorry for my part in all this.Friends and hugs. I will only fight with VI from this point on. Once more to you and all I appologize. Not called for on forum. VI is still open season.<BR>
    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.   

  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Whew! I was a little freaked out when I woke up this morning....

    Glad to see everyone is okay...
  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    @tazcrash

    That will get you in trouble!! Ha just kidding. I can't figure out how to embed it so the pic player shows either.


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  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    Mickey said:



    @mickey I'm sorry I jumped ya. I'll do a better job of adding some cooks to the forum :-h
    You post and I will be the first to tell you good or bad. I may have overreatcted just a bit (you think?). Hell as I get olded I get more like VI eveyday. I am sorry for my part in all this.Friends and hugs. I will only fight with VI from this point on. Once more to you and all I appologize. Not called for on forum. VI is still open season.


    Thank you sir. You are a gentleman and cooking scholar.


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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    edited April 2013
    <P>Ok back to Cartens and something you should think about. If I had both Minis, both would be in Cartens. Started to get one a year ago in Salado but got around to it this year (March 16th) and my Mini has not and will not be out of it.</P>
    <P>Only one problem I can see. That is some heat transfew from the bottom of Egg to the bottom of Carten. For the most part mine sits on a SS table with a towell under it to protect the SS table from scratches from moving the Carten around. Found the heat and went online for two things: first somthing to catch the heat and second to cushion setting it down. Found this materal that stated 500 protection level (not sure what it protected aggenst) so ordered a 1/4 inch for about $28. The first pic was after a 20 min 400 cook.  So orderd a 1/2 peace for about $48 to put under it. When/if it burns into the second peace I will pull all of the orange stuff.But (IMO) something is needed to cut the heat (not that it is all that hot) I think cutting would be good.</P>
    <P> </P><IMG src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/FileUpload/c3/13afbc150987cabbcb5965bb4ebcee.jpg"><IMG src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/FileUpload/56/55127504182438ef32f23be54c6605.jpg">
    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.   

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    @mickey
    Well that stinks. I was looking at that silicone mat for the bottom. I'll post a picture of what I'm thinking. A guy on here has a home made one that is circular.


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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    edited April 2013
    <P>Here is what I used and sitting directly on it.</P>
    <P> </P><IMG src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/FileUpload/0f/1c5ccda048416e255c2d6c175f6664.jpg">
    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.   

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    Be aware this is auto cad advanced so if I need to translate just ask

    Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos


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  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    Exactly like the present Carten but rounder to stay in the table.


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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    edited April 2013
    <P>What are you saying: "but rounder to stay in the table"? </P>
    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.   

  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490

    Mickey said:

    What are you saying: "but rounder to stay in the table"?

    If I'm following correctly...MCN would like a custom fab'ed egg carten that is round instead of square so that he can just drop it inside the hole in his wood table.

    That's a cool idea- when it's time to go mobile then you just grab it and go! 


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    Ya know how the egg Carten is square, if the bottom was a circle, and the supports curved around the egg so I could just make my table hole a little bigger and the egg, in the egg Carten could just go in and out of the table. An the handles not be that big as to clutter up the table top.


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  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    edited April 2013



    Mickey said:

    What are you saying: "but rounder to stay in the table"?


    If I'm following correctly...MCN would like a custom fab'ed egg carten that is round instead of square so that he can just drop it inside the hole in his wood table.

    That's a cool idea- when it's time to go mobile then you just grab it and go! 


    Exactly!!


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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490

    Mickey said:

    What are you saying: "but rounder to stay in the table"?

    If I'm following correctly...MCN would like a custom fab'ed egg carten that is round instead of square so that he can just drop it inside the hole in his wood table.

    That's a cool idea- when it's time to go mobile then you just grab it and go! 
    ...another thought...why not just cut a square hole in the table to fit the cart-en? 


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665




    Mickey said:

    What are you saying: "but rounder to stay in the table"?


    If I'm following correctly...MCN would like a custom fab'ed egg carten that is round instead of square so that he can just drop it inside the hole in his wood table.

    That's a cool idea- when it's time to go mobile then you just grab it and go! 

    ...another thought...why not just cut a square hole in the table to fit the cart-en? 

    Just round would be more aesthetically pleasing. And also, a tighter, slightly smaller Carten will fit better in the backseat of the airplane. It will need a few beener holes to hook tie downs in.


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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    edited April 2013
    10-4...makes sense.  I really like the idea of having something that fits in the table.  

    Had to read that last part a couple of times.  Oh..carabiner holes!  ;)

    Just round would be more aesthetically pleasing. And also, a tighter, slightly smaller Carten will fit better in the backseat of the airplane. It will need a few beener holes to hook tie downs in.



    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053

    So you are talking about something like this?

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    Lit said:

    So you are talking about something like this?

    image

    Nice man!  Do you have something under the Cart-en or does the top of the table just support it?  


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • Village Idiot
    Village Idiot Posts: 6,959
    I'm going to have to stay up later.  I hate missing a good food fight.   :ar!
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,669
    I'm going to have to stay up later.  I hate missing a good food fight.   :ar!
    You only missed one you were not in the middle of
    :bz
    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.   

  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665
    @lit
    Exactly like that. Can you take a picture of that from above and behind pretty please??


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  • MrCookingNurse
    MrCookingNurse Posts: 4,665

    I'm going to have to stay up later.  I hate missing a good food fight.   :ar!

    You where up, just busy scraping in another thread ;)


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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    Nothing under it the carten supports it fine. I will check to see if I have any other pictures but I got rid of the table when I modified my nest for 8" casters. Next will be to make a rolling nest for the mini.
  • sancho65
    sancho65 Posts: 226
    Here is my Mini in a large nest!!
    XL, Large, 2 Small's and Mini BGE Arlington Texas
  • sancho65
    sancho65 Posts: 226
    And my Mini in the Egg Carten
    XL, Large, 2 Small's and Mini BGE Arlington Texas
  • mwraulst
    mwraulst Posts: 131
    how do i acquire one of those egg carten's for my mini? i get everything under the sun when i try to google them.
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,727
    @sancho65: that mini looks awesome in the nest. Its begging for a big wheel/eggwagen mod

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
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