2 Questions from a Beginner

Hi cpbatl,

I keep a fire brick on my table next to the egg and a fire brick on the lower shelf near the bottom of the egg. When I pull my grate off I simply set it on the fire brick. Same with the plate setter which goes on the other fire brick. When the bricks start to look a little nasty put them in the egg for a high temp clean. Simple and works great!

To drop the temp quick I close both vents to snuff out the fire then crack both slightly. Once the egg has "burped" open the top and let all that heat escape.

Enjoy your egg.

OctoberGlory
Cumming, GA

cpbatl,
I think most of us have had these problems. See my post just 1 thread down. The deck box I got from Target has enough room for me to put the platesetter in, feet down, on a sheet of newspaper. Others cover the platesetter with foil and just pitch that out after the cook. As for the grid, some eggers have a hook they use to keep the grid out of the way. I have found that I can carefully lean the grid against a rainspout on my deck. I get small dark line on the deck and another one on the rainspout. Both are not prominent unless you look for them. Every 6 or 8 cooks, I scrub all this stuff down with one of those scrubby things that looks like an uncomfortable curly stainless steel wig for a daschund. Bottom line, there is a bit of mess but the egg disassembles pretty nicely.
Have fun!
Paul

cpbatl,
1) I cleaned my platesetter with a scraper the other day.[p]2) I filled my firebox with fresh hard lump, lit, and then my cat hurt herself so I forgot about the egg, when I came back the egg was at around 2200 degrees, 2200!! Fried the gasket and temp guage, the outside of the egg burned the table!!! now thats hot! so 700 is nothing, I replaced the gasket today with a rutland
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cpbatl,
best way to not go above 350m when you want 350 is to light the egg and put the daisy right on top dialed in roughly to 350.[p]it won't get away from you, because it'll cap out at whatever you set it for. best part, it doesn't slow the fire down and make it take longer to get up to temp, because it is never calling for more draft than it can deliver until it gets to the temp you have it set for.[p]you might overshoot by 50 degrees, but you'll never overshoot by 400

cpbatl,[p]I put the dirty grill and plate setter in my gasser while setting up the BGE.[p]Stike's idea is the best for temp control. A good rule of thumb is to never leave the egg unattended in the wide open condition, even when doing T-Rex. Just a phone call, beer run or minor distraction and wham, its up to 1000 degrees.[p]I've also burned food accidentally because the Daisy went wide open when lifting the lid, and I didn't notice until it was too late. I learned Whiz' trick the hard way about orienting the Daisy so it will "default" to closed when the lid is opened.[p]Woody54[p]