Very cool. 
Thanks for posting.

Awesome!!!

Neat article ... thanks for posting.

The funny thing is that I owned a Kamado egg in the early 1970's just like Ed Fisher did ... imported back to the states in the belly of an Air Force C141 cargo plane.  We lived in Dover at the time and cooked on it religiously.  Briquettes and starter fluid was the method of the day.  We then moved it to Northern Michigan ... yep the UP.  The clay construction, moisture, and freezing cold did it in.  The bottom simply fell out on the ground when spring arrived.

A few general comments to make:

1) Ed Fisher has added a lot of life and quality to today's egg ... thank you Ed.   Stop complaining about eggs cracking ... the early ones simply turned back into mud under the wrong conditions.

2) Ed screwed up when he changed from the early Japanese smoke cap to today's daisy wheel.

3) Wish I could have been as insightful as Ed was back then.

Great Story - Thanks for sharing

ksmyrl said:

The photo at the end is a nice one of egghead forum's @NecessaryIndulg

Have a great weekend everyone.

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/how-the-big-green-egg-became-a-phenomenon/

Thank you, @ksmyrl. . . I am honored they wanted to use some of my EggFest photos.  It's a great article! 

@RRP, outstanding!!  I hope it gets occasional use, not as much as your Eggs

HeavyG said:

My dad was in the USN for 32 years. We lived in Japan for 4 years in the late 60’s. He bought one of those clay kamados in the Navy Exchange that he used for a couple of those years. He loved that thing.

When we moved back to the states late summer 1969 he bought two to ship back brand new with the hope that one of them would survive the journey. Only one survived the journey from Japan to the east coast and he used that for the next 15 or so years until he took up permanent residence at Arlington National Cemetery. It was the only grill we ever had at our house.

That's a nice post. Thanks...

bgebrent said:

RRP, I hope you can find replacements.  It's a classic rig as you know.  You're kids/grandkids would enjoy a blast from the past.  Have a great weekend!

I just haven't bothered to look. One thing I was always happy about was when I bought it I had no idea it was electrified until I saw another one a month later at a neighbors home. I went back to the store and bought the last adapter they had. Man o man does that thing light up when the balls and scoring is happening! And I would never have known that hidden aspect!

Jeepster47 said:

@RRP ... if it's an import from Japan it's probably wired for 100 volts ... running it on 120 volts will definitely light it up.

You know how noisy a single machine is ... can you imagine a room full of them and the noise that is created?  You can walk down the street and know there's a Pachinko Parlor ahead a block away.  Crazy.

I can imagine the sound of a Pachinko Parlor!

BTW yes ours was a used import for sure. I bought it in '68-69. Were you around here when Avie Cohen was in the wildest import business? Most everything he sold was used foreign "stuff" which seemed exotic by mid-western standards. He always bought in small lots and sold as is. If there was any brand new merchandise it was crap!  I remember one summer he bought 100 brand new tiny foreign cars with a tiny motor. He sold them like hot cakes in a matter of 3 days off a railroad siding for $600 as is. That summer those were trashed and left abandoned all over town! 

@RRP ... missed that ... I was over in Rantoul for training about that time.