Gasket Question

Spring Chicken · April 2009

I was in Lowes yesterday and found myself looking at stoves and ovens. I quickly noticed that the gasket around the oven door could potentially be a gasket for the Egg. I wounder if anyone has used this type of gasket on their Egg or has any comments that might be helpful.

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"Sparky" · April 2009

You may just be onto somethin there Mr. Chicken :ohmy:

stike · April 2009

most are fiberglass with little metal clips holding them in, no?

Spring Chicken · April 2009

A quick search shows there are many gasket types, some form-fitted and some that are rope type like this:

Also, I found that they can range up to 1,000 degrees.

The prices vary but none over $99.00 and most were in the $4 to $40 range.

I'm guessing that being on an oven it meets all food usage requirements. And being a fabric (glass) material it could be held in place by stove adhesives.

The one I saw in the store was very flexible and compressed easily, then returned to its more 'puffy' shape when released.

Might be worth a try.

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Fidel · April 2009

Those rope style gaskets are what they use on the new "bubba keg" smoker that is selling at Home Depot for $800. Looks like it would be great on the egg, but I don't know how you could seat it properly without some sort of channel cut in the base of the egg.

SmokinJ · April 2009

Here a link from someone who had a custom mad gasket for 20.00 for his Grill dome. Sure they do it for an egg.

http://www.barbecuebible.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=16448&highlight=gasket

Spring Chicken · April 2009

The oven door I saw appeared to be flat with the rope glued to it. It was very snug when closed. Looked nice too.

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Spring Chicken · April 2009

That sure makes a lot of sense.

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Spring Chicken · April 2009

That's the idea. Much of what is used these days was invented for some other purpose. Perhaps this can be one of those instances.

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johann · April 2009

I assume if the rope is puffy enough you only need it on the lid, or the base not both, which means less things to scrape and replace too.

I remember a discussion somewhere about using the gaskets from a wood stove on an egg also. Not sure the food requirements a wood stove gasket needs to meet though.

stike · April 2009

"puffy" is probably just an empty tube shape.

the one one our stove is a tube of material. metal clips hold it in, but if you could get a ;length of it without them, it should work.

i think the silicone adhesive would be best

stike · April 2009

that's the rutland gasket. much talked about

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