Contemplating an Egg...

i very rarely leave my egg unattended!!

a demo egg is a great idea they come with the warranty and that is very important!!

one last ting is if you get a egg find a friend who might want your barrell smoker! so you can make room for more eggs!

Get the EGG its way better than a Weber kettle. I had a kettle for 23 years and the egg for 1.5. When I cook on a kettle at my parents I am reminded how much better and easier it is to cook on. I've gone shopping a few times while cooking but never to work. If you want to gone for a long time get a DigiQ. I have one and love it.

An Egg fest would be a great place to learn about an egg, and you can get a good deal on one there. The only downside is that September is a ways away. I bought my egg having never seen one in action and love it.

Hello,

I am a newb to this forum, just joined today actually. Anyways, I have been looking at the Big Green Egg for about 8 years. Well, I finally went and purchased an XL on Monday. All I can say is WOW....I could have been eating like this 8 years ago.... boy was I stupid. The inaugaral cooking was some grilled buffalo wings. They turned out great, next was Chicken Breasts and Ribeyes....the high temp searing is awesome. The third day was 3 whole roaster chickens. Those chickens were some of the best I have ever had. The fourth day we did sausages and hotdogs, yesterday we did nice juicy burgers, and today is my first long smoke with some boneless pork butts.

The egg has simply produced some of the best food that I have eaten, has very precise temp control once your used to adjusting the dampers. I have been smoking at 220 today for 6 hours so far. I am guessing I have another 4 to 6 to finsish the butt roasts off. I also smoked some acorn squash with the butts...had the squash for lunch, it worked out great.

Now that I have the Xtra large, I can cleary see that I need a Large.

I have used several gassers, kettles, and water smokers over the years, and also have an offset smoker/pig roaster similar to the lang model 84 pig roasters (Home built version modeled after theres. This egg is flat out the best thing I have purchsed, albeit it is a bit pricy, but in my opinion worth every penny.

I guess you can probably figure I am a very eGGsited Newb to cooking on the Egg.

Go for it, you won't be sorry

Silly, you're asking the choir if they like to sing! Of course we do! You won't find a more versatile cooking apparatus than a BGE.

Slane, I started out with an XL and bought a large shortly after. I use both a lot but I use the large more during the week. Today is the XL's turn today for 3 racks of baby backs and baked potatoes.

Well, you have come to the right place...

If you are anywhere close to WessB, that is a great offer he is extending, I would take him up on it as soon as you two could work out the particulars.

The eggfest fest would be a great place to go and also pick up a demo. In a way I way which I could have taken advantage of an eggfest prices.

I did say "in a way". Don't get me wrong but Spetember is an egg fest would be a fantastic experience, the problem is, September is way too long to wait.

GG

Sorry in advance the following being so verbose, but it is a sign of my excitement I guess. I am a new egger and I am completely sold! My brother, Weekend Warrior, has been egging for several years and has been trying to convince me. He traveled from western PA to New Hampshire for an eggfest in Hampton Beach two weeks ago...since he was within four hours of us, he convinced us that this was the time for us to have an egg - personally delivered - and at a reduced "demo" price. We got a large and love it; we got the place setter and pizza stone straight off, and since, have ordered our spider and wok. I am totally convinced, and would encourage you to get one. I'm sure you won't be sorry; as for convincing words for your wife, I think she will love it - I have gotten more excited about cooking in recent days because there is just so much versatility with the egg.

Mainegg wrote:

We got a large first. worried it would not be big enough. wish we had gotten the med and small to start with. about the only time I really use the large is for a number of Butts low and slow. 90% of our cooks are on the mini. we had 10 for dinner the other night. make your own pizza night. we used the med and the mini. and we could not eat them as fast as they were coming off the egg after the first two were done. Sept is along ways away LOL Julie

Here I am with more questions So maybe I want to get the Medium for my first egg - will a dutch oven fit in it and a cast iron fry pan and maybe muffin tins and a wok and maybe one butt at a time and ribs and chicken and turkeys and pizza and breads .... Of course all at different times

Then later on work on a mini for travel and using at home too.

99% of the time it is just the two of us but I want to be able to do lots on it....

about how much lump do you go thru if you use it 3 or 4 times a week (the medium that is)

oh edited to add - I will be able to get a spider and pizza stone and all the neat accessories for the med. too right??

kind of like asking about the Pope in Church . . .

we had a friend who had an oversees assignment and lent us his egg for a year -first cook I made hockey pucks instead of chicken, but after I learned, wow

after we returned the friends egg we made it about 3 weeks before we bought our own large (from the mothership in Lawrenceville) - we probably use it 3 or 4 times a week

I learned to cook on a gas grill and swore I would never have a charcoal grill becuase of the hassle - I am now a true member of the cult, and love it!

you are in "flat view". wess wasn't replying to you.

Just read both of your posts.

There are just the two of us here most of the time. Once a month we have the kids & grand kids over and that's 26 right now. 2 more in a couple of months.

I started out with a large, then medium, then small then mini.

For the two of us and grilling type cooks I use the mini
most of the time.

If I had it to do all over again, knowing what I know now. I would start out with a large, then mini then another large or maybe an X-Large.

I hardly ever use the small and use the medium once in a while.

If money between the medium and large is not a problem I would highly recommend the large.

In the large only, I can cook for the whole group or just the wife and I. Some of the accessories you asked about are only available for the large.

On the large I can cook a 24# turkey, variable levels of Dutch Oven cooking which the spider really comes in handy and I can cook for the whole gang.

I would not let lump usage be part of your buying decision (for any of the eggs).

For any given cook the large won't use enough more lump than the medium to make a difference worry about.

For me under normal circumstances and with out doing some tricks with the egg, the medium takes longer to light and get to temperature and also struggles to get to higher temperatures than the large does.

Over all the large is easier to use than the medium.

There are a lot of medium users that will differ with my thoughts. I have had them both for long enough now to know the differences.

The medium is a great egg, I just would rather have a large out of the two.

There will be a lot of different opinions on the different sized of eggs.

GG

How many do you normally cook for?

Especially because of you baking desires I would go with the Large. It is like the Large is made for a 16" pizza. The pizzas are so much better on the Egg than an oven. We have gone all out on the pizzas and doughs. We do the same thing. I may cook a couple of meals at a time because it is sometimes easier with our schedules to heat and eat. There are some reall neat accessories for the large. I like my large so much I am in the market for another one.

Panhandle Smoker wrote:

Slane, I started out with an XL and bought a large shortly after. I use both a lot but I use the large more during the week. Today is the XL's turn today for 3 racks of baby backs and baked potatoes.

I think I will use the large quite a bit too, once I get it. However, I bought the XL, becuase I have 6 kids...that makes 8 in the family. I need the XL to basically feed everyone LOL...With a few teenage boys, they can sure eat.

I absolutely love this Egg...The pork butts I did tongiht were awesome. I gave one of them to my neighbor. The wife was excited as she loves that type of meat. The husband on the other wasn't too excited as he doesn't like Pork, except for bacon.

Well about 40 minutes after I dropped off the butt roast, I got a call from my neighbor thanking me for the roast.....and she said her husband would not stop eating....just kept saying this isn't pork, this is just damn good.

I can't wait for my spare ribs tommorrow :-)