'Pre-buyers Remorse'

too busy to read all the reponses so please forgive any redundnacy.
i avoided buying an egg for 20 years [the first one i saw was clay and not ceramic] what a dunce i am. got the $75 dollar gasser and then the $125 used them till they wore out couple of years at best ,, you get the picture,,ended up with a broilking $700 it died about the same time as the warranty. avoided the egg as i did not believe lump would get to temp as fast as the gasser and my kids were young and i was a single father,, blah blah,,, my regret is i was past 50 by the time i got my first egg..given the warranty the egg vs. the gas grill .. the egg wins finacially. no contest when it comes to multi tasking either. boys were afaid of the first chicken i cooked ..it was so moist they thought it was undercooked. as young adults,,and food snobs.. usda choice rib eyes from costco [done right] "this is better than mortons" [$50 a piece just for the meat $428 for three total]
plus i can drink at home and not worry about driving
great food , great hobby and if you hang around here you get a wonderful helpfull [somewhat disfuctional] family. my remorse is waiting too long

nearly bought a gasser after using charoal a number of years (pick any number :silly: )---but couldn't be happier with Christmas present we bought ourselves (12/8/08) :woohoo:
don't be :pinch: get goin, then start sending us Eggheads some NYC veal straight off the trucks :evil:
can I say that on the forum

Hey City, I went through the same issue. Wasn't sure I should spend over $1,000 on a grill with a table etc. But now that I have it, I can't get enough. We cook everything out on the egg now, pizza included. It does sound like a lot but in the end you will not regret it.

wish i ahd done as you,,, feel like i ma playing catch up every day

Cityswine, welcome to the cult. You just spent the best $855 that you will ever spend. While you think that your Weber made good burgers, steaks and chicken, just wait until you cook them on your egg. I bet your Weber never made pizza, pulled pork, bread, brisket or ribs the way come off the egg. Just try to make ribs, burgers or whatever on a cold, windy, rainy day on your Weber and you will never look back. Just a word of advice as I see you live in Queens (I am in Ronkonkoma L.I.)avoid the lump coal that Western Beef sells. Most of the time their store brand comes from Paraguay or another South American country and it just plain sucks. Wal-Mart will be starting to sell in about another month and then you can pick up Royal Oak lump. There is a guy in Brooklyn and the Bronx called The Woodsman and they carry Wicked Good lump. Their web address is:
http://www.thewoodman.com/
In addition to carrying lump they also have wood chunks like apple, cherry, red oak, olive along with the standard hickory and mesquite. I get my lump from Restaurant Depot and they have Royal Oak American most of the time. You must have a commercial account to buy there but since you are not that far if you shoot me a e-mail I will give you my phone number and if you want I can take you in. Good luck with the new egg and now you have to start saving for another one as the eggs do not like to live alone.

Hi porkbutt

Could not agree more with your statement
to cityswine. I love mine too.
take care BullyC

oh ok i got it they are what make you smile!!!

that is great!!!


maybe they can take the pic next time :laugh:


Hope all is well pete

I had a w*b*r silver genesis gas grill I bought my Large Egg Sept. 06. Practically gave away the W*B*R, actually showed the guy that bought the Gas Grill My Large egg so I wouldn't have a guilty conscience later on. I bought small Egg in 07' and added a mini in 08... Missed the W*B*R never one day :silly: :silly:
Buyers remorse was not buying the egg sooner

veal, veal, veal

ok MENSA!!!!

i want to see picks of "YOUR" ice cream

not his but yours :evil:

It's so worth it. I spent years trying to talk my husband into buying one. He always thought they were too expensive. (not taking into the account we buy a new gasser every 2 years) Finally he wants something pricey, and he buys me an egg. :laugh: He loves it, doesn't even know how to light it. He actually said we'd need a second one if we bought a winter home in Az. No remorse.

OK - this thread is old by now and I see you have largely committed anyway, but here goes.
1. It's a lot of money for .... a grill (how much did you spend on the cooker in your kitchen !) (especially here in the UK). I got a great deal on a Weber gasser shortly before the egg. Even though the gas as much as the cooker it must have been expensive "per cook" - I mostly cooked stuff for the kids on it that my wife didn't want to smell the house out with (lamb - mmmmm).
The BGE has been cheap on accessories. (a third hand, a therm, a woo ring and a platesetter, oh and some stuff for lighting -)
2. This is the BGE forum (fan club) - what answer did you expect.
3. It's fun cooking on the egg - I've made some flops and my wife isn't all that keen, in fact she's pretty exasperated whenever she finds me thinking of how to cook something on the egg. Time was when she did much of the cooking, now her on-line scrabble score must be phenomenal!
4. It makes cooking more fun even when not on the egg - now if I were doing this on the egg how would I adapt it / I wonder if I could get away with doing this on the egg ...
Heck sometimes I've even cooked things on the egg without telling her. OK there are the sighs when the grocery order turns up with 20 bags of charcoal (have to buy ahead of winter here) and I'm tempting the delivery chap with smalles from the egg.

I'm afraid it doesn't exactly wear off for those afflicted, in fact I think I'll get a chicken on the way home and spatchcock it tonight.....

I've been on a BGE for a year now, before that on a WSM and a Weber kettle.

Enjoy it and forget the money, think about it again in a few years and if it hasn't worked out ask one of the folks on here round to either re-kindle the experience or take it off your hands for a reasonable price.