Some Eggheads....

PhilsGrill · February 2009

So my buddy I used to work with calls me and says that his food on his egg is never as good as I have on mine because I always say it's great. He also mentions about indirect cooking and he has issues with it. Long story short, he did not have a plate setter. He was using a pan about the size of the V-rack on top of the grate. Well, I head over there and we go to a local BGE store and buy a plate setter, and extended grill and place an order for a cast iron to get him on track. Back at the house, I check his egg and it needs a 'cleaning burn'. Before we start I dollar bill check his gasket, perfect! I ask "Have you calibrated your thermometer?" He says "huh?" Boiling water the thermometer ready 250-260. He wondered why it always took a long time to cook stuff. I also found out he was putting his food on right away when the egg was at 'temperature', not waiting for the white smoke to clear. Here is what I found total that he needed help with.

1. Indirect cooking, not using plate setter, but small pan. Too much heat around the food and too close to fire.
2. Thermometer read high 40-50 degrees.
3. Putting food on right away not waiting for VOCs to burn off.
4. Using way to much wood chips on each cook. A huge handful and a half.

We got him on the right track and he is all set to enjoy his egg better now.

It's amazing, I traveled all over the world with this guy teaching computers. He can navigate pretty well as I drove, but sometimes I just have to wonder

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He also ran out of beer while I was there.

FlaPoolman · February 2009

Now you can't just forgive the beer part

:ohmy:

Jupiter Jim · February 2009

Phil,
That is a great post and I'm sure that many others will benefit from your diagnosis of his problems.
Jim

NJ-GrEGG · February 2009

You have done a great service to your fellow man and fellow Egghead!

BBQMaven · February 2009

Great post... I need to send this to a few of my friends!!!

bubba tim · February 2009

He ran out of beer? OMG! He better be careful, he could get his egg repo'd for that.... :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
Crimes Against Eggheads will be dealt with banishment and a Lop-my-egg-from-me. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Eggspert · February 2009

Did he atleast offer to take a cab to the store for a beer run?

Clay Q · February 2009

Your buddy is lucky to have you as a friend. Nice work going over to help and share tips so he can get on track with cooking. That's what egging is about...sharing good times and good food with family and friends. :cheer:
Have a great weekend!

Frank from Houma · February 2009

Nice. A little help keeping it between the ditches.

PhilsGrill · February 2009

FlaPoolman wrote:

Now you can't just forgive the beer part :ohmy:

He promised it would never happen again.

reelgem · February 2009

We've all been through that learning curve and I guess you never do stop learning. He was very lucky to have you to help him through it.

Grandpas Grub · February 2009

Interesting...

I have only used the plate setter once or twice since getting the adjustable rig and spider. I put he spider inverted most of the time with a fairly large pizza pan for indirect cooking then the adjustable rig and cook up into the dome.

Back to the friends problem, sounds like his only problem was running out of beer.

GG

Some Eggheads....

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