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stemc33
Posts: 3,567
New egg owner for less than a month and am having problems getting the egg over 300 degrees. It takes an hour to get to 300 degrees. It will maintain 300 degrees for over 10 hours with lots of lump left over, but very seldom will it go over 300 degrees. I've used BGE and Cowboy with the same results. The BGE is setup with the firebox cutout lined up correctly. I live at about 4,000 ft above sea level and the wind has been blowing for most of my cooks. I use the BGE fire starters and have tried using one, two, and three starters with the same results. I looked at pictures of the settings on others eggs and cannot even come close to those settings. With the bottom vent wide open and the daisy wheel with petals wide open the result is 300 degrees. I'm in the process of just letting all the lump burnout and am gonna clean out and start over. Please give some advice on getting the temperatures up. I want to do more than low and slow. I'm getting frustrated.
Steven
Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter,
two cotton pot holders to handle PS
Banner, Wyoming
Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter,
two cotton pot holders to handle PS
Banner, Wyoming
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What size egg?
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Forgot to put that detail in. It's a largeSteven
Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter,
two cotton pot holders to handle PS
Banner, Wyoming -
Check your gauge.. Make sure it's calibrated correctly. Most likely something is hindering the incoming oxygen.Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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I checked the gauge, but you can feel the lack of fire and food is an all day ordeal.Steven
Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter,
two cotton pot holders to handle PS
Banner, Wyoming -
Make sure the lump is not packed to tightly. You want to make sure that the air can free flow through the lump due to the stack effect and at lower temperatures the differential pressure is less. I also have learned that if I want temperature up quickly to start the lump in about 5 different spots with my torch. Hope this helps.
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. - John Steinbeck
Katy, Texas
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Is your lump all small piece that are plugging air flow? The inside pieces put inline with the bottom vent? You are using lump and not briquettes?Gerhard
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When you say the daisy wheel petals are wide open, is that the only open air flow on top? If so, that's about the temp you should be getting.
Take off the daisy wheel all together, open up the bottom vent all the way, and you should be nuclear in no time.Ball Ground, GA
ATL Sports Homer
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I'll ask what may seem like a stupid question but, do you have the fire grate in place?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, "spa-Peggy" is kind of like spaghetti. I'm not sure what Peggy does different, if anything. But it's the one dish she's kind of made her own.____________________Aurora, Ontario, Canada
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Chris_Wang said:When you say the daisy wheel petals are wide open, is that the only open air flow on top? If so, that's about the temp you should be getting. Take off the daisy wheel all together, open up the bottom vent all the way, and you should be nuclear in no time.Southern California
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I'll try taking the daisy wheel completely off and see if that makes a difference. Plan on doing a complete clean out to make sure air flow is not impeded somewhere.Steven
Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter,
two cotton pot holders to handle PS
Banner, Wyoming
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