Is it ever too cold to egg?

Unknown · December 2003

Just wondering.. I got my egg in June and haven't had it in cold yet.... [p]I did a butt the other night and the weather was clear but the overnight low was probably in the low 30's. Had no real problems... woke up at 7am wiuth the egg chugging along at 225....[p]

Unknown · December 2003

Nardi, Some nut from Alaska posted a photo last week of a thermometer in his yard that read MINUS 40. Now all things are relative, but I'd say that's too cold. Maybe not for the egg, but you'd die trying to retrieve your food.[p]p.s. The nut remark wasn't meant to be personal. It actually applies to everyone who lives where it gets that cold. They don't even sell thermometers that go that low in Philly.

Unknown · December 2003

Petear, I just realized the 40 below posting was on another web site.

stike · December 2003

Nardi,
i went against elder ward's fire-building specs the other day by hurriedly dumping a bag of royal oak into the BGE during the height of a snowstorm (we got 21 inches officially). it was 25 or so degrees and 25 to 30 mile-an-hour winds.[p]went lo-and-slo all night, got out of bed ONCE (4:30 am) to find the egg pegged at 200 degrees (which is what i set it at when i went to bed), and there was the slightest encroachment of a snowdrift creeping towards my lower vent.
i brushed it back with my hand and hit the sack.[p]when i woke again for good at 6:30 and peeked out through a snowcovered window, i could barely see the egg. the snow was magically melted away from the gg for about 2 inches all-round. i had to force my door open against the snow and shovel a path to the egg through about 16 inches of snow. when i scraped the ice of the thermometer, the egg was still at 200, and there was a nice chugging bit of smoke coming out the top.[p]i've egged colder, but never in worse conditions.

Mr Beer · December 2003

<p />Nardi,[p]Rain, snow, sleet will not keep the egg from smokin.....

Is it ever too cold to egg?

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