Another EGG Knock Off

 
I really like the wheels on the cart at no extra charge, there have been a few broken eggs with the smaller wheels we have to deal with.

The more ceramic cooking is known the more competition there will be. I guess for BGE it's a game of product value and pricing and the never ending battle of keeping market share.

GG

Almost all of the new knock offs are made in China and they are usually made of or have lots of fire clay. They can't give them a lifetime warranty because they would go out of business replacing broken parts. I would doubt that the companies making these would be around long enough to even back up a 5 year warranty.

The cart looks like the cooker would fall out if given a slight tilt either front or back.

 
That's if on can get to a fest and transport the egg back home.

$1,150 out this way. Travel time to a fest is minimum 12 hours drive time one way all up hill both ways and minimum of 3 days time, hotels, car gas, food costs and on and on.

GG

That reminds me of this sketch. :silly: :laugh: :laugh:

breadbasket wrote:

And the Egg is a knock off of???????

Imperial Kamado, I think. They started exporting to the US 1 year before BGE started up.

 
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Yup, that is exactly the way it was.

Some day I will have to share my experience with a Texan and Alaskan on the Golden Gate Bridge.

GG

Looks like and priced like the one that Academy Sports is selling which is green, not black. I agree it is cheaper looking, especially the gasket which is piecemeal and appears to have been installed by a blind Chinaman using too much glue.

jball wrote:

Looks like and priced like the one that Academy Sports is selling which is green, not black. I agree it is cheaper looking, especially the gasket which is piecemeal and appears to have been installed by a blind Chinaman using too much glue.

Yep. I was in one of the local Academy stores a few weeks ago and saw them. Very cheap looking, but that cart started giving me some ideas too.

 
You do have a keen eye for the eggs around here. That's only a 15-20 minute drive for you. Being red I am guessing it is a GD.

GG

 
"maybe the "kamado" can't be trademarked, but the dimpling and profile, design of the daisy and vents, etc.... that should all have been able to have been trademarked, no?"

I wonder if the cost to fight is worth the potential gain.

I would think so, but on the other hand how would a architect or designer protect, say, a column design in a house or building. Maybe those are not good comparisons.

My wife and I made a marionette puppet and received a copyright on the design. Enforcing the copyright was almost impossible. We later trademarked the design and that was a little easier to apply force but still was expensive dealing with the attorneys.

 

as you know, trademark and copyright are different things. architects have their own issues to deal with, and only until relatively recently, their design wasn't copyrightable.

but a trademark IS a different thing.

it all comes down to how much it is worth a company to preserve their identity. but i gotta think the profile, dimpling, and basic design elements are a signature, otherwise they wouldn't be repeated in the mimicked designs in the first place.

the shape, color, design of the BGE could have been trademarked. i'm betting it wasn't.

it's an interesting thing even if you consider one element, the dimpling of the surface. originally (like, a looong time ago, on the much-older eggs), the castings look like they were worked over by hand with either sponge, or rags, or something to either dimple the surface or give it a texture probably to disguise any imperfections from the mold surfaces, to remove the line where the molds joined, remove bubbles, etc. ...basically, a bit of texture that was decorative but also made the surface uniform. however they make the eggs today, that dimpling is a simulation of that and is more a design element. it's not (as far as i can tell) required as part of the process. it appears more like a replication of the surface that used to be made as part of the handmade casting process.

so, primo doesn't need to have the dimples (they aren't a result of the casting process), or neither this later cooker from sam's club. so why did they add them? to identify with and mimic the BGE. to trade on the BGE image. no other reason.

it may be expensive to enforce trademarks, but it can also be lucrative

jball wrote:

cheaper looking, especially the gasket which is piecemeal and appears to have been installed by a blind Chinaman using too much glue.

Good one!! BGE gaskets are awesome!

Classy.

What would the world be like without red-necks anyway?

Oh yeah... better.

The cart does look nice, but if anyone welds....I'm sure it can be replicated fer under a bill.......