It's not always the best

Lit

@SGH‌ you have pictures of 1 - 6? Have watched your posts and haven't seen them but would like to see.

henapple

Yeah @SGH‌, let's see your unit.

Lit

Units

tarheelmatt

SGH

@Lit‌
I have posted Unit 1, Unit 4, Unit 6 and Unit 7.
2,3 and 5 don't see much use any more as they are truly massive pits and are fuel hogs. Don't have much use for them any longer. Keep them more for sentimental reasons than anything else. But will gladly post Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 5 for you. They are not pretty any longer. But they are massive on a grand scale.

buzd504

Ok, with all due respect Brother Apple, this has gone on long enough.  If no one else will say it, I will.  There is no better cooker than a big green egg.  I can fill it with RO, drop a paper match in it, and in 10 minutes it's ready to go.  I just toss my meat at it and walk away.  A few hours later?  A meal per excellent.

And Brother @SGH, you can go around waving your unit at everyone, but my egg can cook 400 briskets in a day.  I would have brought it to brisket camp, but Brother Nola knew that 3 eggs would be plenty.  And obviously, he didn't even need the third one.  QED.

And pizza - don't forget about pizza.  Nothing like a delicious egged pizza high in the dome.  You can do pizza all night on one load of lump - better than a Neapolitan pizza conveyor belt.

So all of you eggers out there, don't listen to this subversive propaganda.  I mean really - can anyone eat 400 briskets anyway? 

Sheesh.

SGH

@henapple‌
My unit is much to big to waive around

The Cen-Tex Smoker

henapple said:

The first time I heard that was in Salado from @Foghorn‌. @cazzy‌ also taught me the egg is just a cooking vessel.

Several people have commented on the lack of eggs at brisket camp. This is all my opinion of course. Does the egg cook pulled pork and brisket well? Yes. Does it cook chicken well? Yes. How many chickens can you cook on a large? 2-3? @SGH‌ said his smoker will cook 45 chickens at one time. How many large eggs would that take?

Can an egg cook a pizza as good as a $4000 brick pizza oven? No, but it does cook good pizza. Brisket as well as AF's smoker? No but Centex and others cooks a damn good brisket on the egg.

To me, the great thing about the egg is versatility. Ribs on monday, pizza Tuesday, 800 degree sear on Wednesday. .. I dont need a $4000 smoker but the only way nola's party could've fed all those folks was with a smoker or with about 12 eggs.

I learned a lot in NO despite drinking rather heavily. Enjoy and love your egg but be open to other methods. @Foghorn‌ could cook a good meal in a shoebox.

Amen buddy. Well said.

bcsnave

henapple said:

The honeymoon isn't over. I do all my chili and stews on the egg, fry and bake bread on it. While building a house years ago the Hispanic brick layers had a women that cooked lunch for them every day. Two cinder blocks and a grid over an open fire. Damn good fajitas.

 

 

@henapple ..stop dude..I am gonna have to poke my eyes out

bcsnave

Look at me now Henapple

Foghorn

I had never thought about cooking in a shoebox...

 

Hmmmm

Foghorn

On a more appropriate note, I find that I do 80% of my outdoor cooking on the BGE.  I only fire up my offset about 2 times a year.  I take the water pan out of my ProQ and use the top grid to cook raised direct - rather than buy an adjustable rig (although I did use some properly shaped rocks to raise my BGE grid a couple of times).  I sometimes use my Weber or my firepit to caveman (yes, it is a verb) a steak because you don't need a special grill to cook on the coals.  And I often cook vegetables on the gas grill while I have the meat on the BGE because it is just easier in terms of sharing the space and needing different temps. 

But with all that being said, when I get an opportunity to cook outside, I almost always find myself drawn to the egg for all the reasons mentioned in other posts.  It is the easiest and most reliable of the bunch and consistently turns our great food with very little effort.  And I never have to remember to go back outside after it has cooled down to cover it or clean it.  That's why it gets way more use than any of my other grills.

So, while @henapple gave me credit/blame in the original post, hopefully it is clear that I am here because I am a huge BGE advocate.

Although I'm adding another grill to my collection as I just inherited my grandpappy's wheelbarrow that he used to cook steaks...

texaswig

I totally agree with @henapple‌.the main thing about a egg is effort per result. For all it does. for its cost, size and ease it can't be beat. So I'm sure everyone here on this forum would agree.... The juice is worth the squeeze.

henapple

I'm an egghead through and through. Just answering the inquiries about @SGH‌ and his unit. I cook everything on my egg pretty much...just not for 100 people.

cook861

The Egg i not meant to be for large cooks (100-500) people they are for home use 

bcsnave

henapple said:

I'm an egghead through and through. Just answering the inquiries about @SGH‌ and his unit. I cook everything on my egg pretty much...just not for 100 people.

Hen...when you gonna change your avatar?

Thatgrimguy

Jack of all trades, master of none.  But it's really really good at all those other trades!! 

SGH

@henapple‌
Here is a peek at my "big unit" brother Apple

NPHuskerFL

henapple said:

The honeymoon isn't over. I do all my chili and stews on the egg, fry and bake bread on it.

While building a house years ago the Hispanic brick layers had a women that cooked lunch for them every day. Two cinder blocks and a grid over an open fire. Damn good fajitas.

When I first got out of the USN and did HVAC/R buildouts I would see this on jobsite's and once in a while they'd hook us up. Good eats!

nolaegghead

C'mon, this is a family forum and we have grown men showing each other their "units".

JohnInCarolina

SGH said:

@henapple‌ Here is a peek at my "big unit" brother Apple

Very cool.  Maybe in a couple more years you can compete with the big boys:

Botch

Foghorn said:

Although I'm adding another grill to my collection as I just inherited my grandpappy's wheelbarrow that he used to cook steaks...

 

Pics please!  

Eggcelsior

The egg is master of one thing: the best forum online. I have never had so much fun talking about food and Henapple's sexual bacon fantasies.

nolaegghead

I think it was Freud that said, sometimes, bacon is simply substitute for a vagina.  Or was it uterus?  I forget.  Drape that therapeutic dead pig flesh on your body if it helps.  - that's modern psychiatry. 

Foghorn

Botch said:

Foghorn said:

Although I'm adding another grill to my collection as I just inherited my grandpappy's wheelbarrow that he used to cook steaks...

 

Pics please!  

Here are some pics from over a year ago when we cooked on it at my parents' place in Florida.  We were cooking caveman T-bones.  My son was in charge and teaching my nephews how to do it.  I wanted the boys to learn how their great grandpa used to cook some of the best steaks on the planet (although he didn't cook them caveman - he had a grate big enough to span it).  He used orange wood from his grove and raised his own cattle.  We line it with foil at this point because it is somewhat rusty and we want to preserve it.

 

 

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

I think it was Freud that said, sometimes, bacon is simply substitute for a vagina.  

Mattman3969

That is way cool @foghorn !!

Eggcelsior

JohnInCarolina said:

nolaegghead said:

I think it was Freud that said, sometimes, bacon is simply substitute for a vagina.  

Counterpoint: bacon fleshlight.

henapple

@SGH‌. ..may I commend you on your unit. Length and girth. Truly amazing.

JohnInCarolina

@Eggcelsior - I so totally did not need to see that.  And way to give @henapple ideas, you bastard.