BGE Warranty Win! and a Disaster averted w/pics.

JRWhitee

My LBGE base cracked and BGE had it replaced in 5 days. I sent photos to American Backyard who took over the space near North Point Mall in Alpharetta, GA. from Georgia Backyard who went out of business in 2009. Tony at American Backyard took all my information and photos of the crack last Monday, filed the paperwork and called me on Friday to pick up a new base. I was out of town this weekend so I picked it up yesterday and put it together today. 

So for the almost disaster, I was cooking a pork butt and some baby backs a couple weeks ago and about 4 hours into the cook I was sitting on the deck enjoying some adult beverages and the smoke from the egg and thought there was more smoke coming from the egg than should be, when I took a closer look I noticed the smoke was coming from the bottom of the egg so I looked under and saw ashes on the deck, got a little closer and the wood from my table was on fire. When I bought the egg and table in 2006 I had never been on the forum and didn't think about putting pavers under the egg I just put the egg on the feet and set it on the wood table. I had planned to put pavers under the egg after @centex almost disaster but had not got around to it yet. I never considered the egg cracking which is what caused the fire to start. After taking a closer look at the crack when I removed the egg from the table I see the crack goes from one side of the egg half way up all the way underneath and up the other side. The good news is I am going to redo the whole table and put a new top on it as it is pretty weathered. 

While I was putting the egg together I had to cook dinner so I did a beer can chicken on the Weber, it was edible but it definitely was not anywhere as good as a spatchcock on the egg. 

caliking

That was indeed a close one. Good to know that nothing terrible happened since you caught it in time.

eggo

That's scary. Any idea what caused the crack? Had any extremely high temps prior to the crack? Glad BGE is taking care of you.

JRWhitee

@caliking just glad I was't doing an overnight that would have been bad.

@eggo, high heat is the only thing I can think of, I use the egg about 5 nights a week a lot of sears and 400 degree spatchcocks.