What pushed you over the edge ....

Jstroke

For me it was a culmination of research. I like many others had owned kettles and crappy gassers. Unless I was just cooking simple items like burgers thighs and dogs I quickly became frustrated. When the last kettle quit I simple refused to buy another unit until I had explored all options. I didn't want to cook on gas, but I refused to cook on a kettle. I simply wasn't going to work that hard to maintain temps. I found the BBQ brethren guys and built a UDS. It would do everything they say about a UDS. It maintained temps and would cook forever on a load of lump. But I had trouble with high heat cooks. And my wife was not very thrilled with it on the patio.  I saw the egg at my local dealer who also specializes in all kinds of high end gas grills, which is why I walked in the door. I explained what I wanted to do and he never even talked about gas, all he talked about were these weird looking green things. I thought he was full of crap, it looked like some kind of funky grill for rich folks who never cook and nobody has ever seen. So I snooped around and found this sight and lurked. And decided either you people were either trying to rationalize your decision for spending an obscene amount of money on something that was a fad or they really did work as advertized. So I went back to the dealer on a demo day and cooked on it. I did a side by side comparison of both gas and an egg. Game over. 

Ladeback69

18 or so year old gasser was finally dead and SWMBO said OK.  Wanted one ever since I bought the gasser 20 or so years ago.  I had a WSM and the egg seemed to be able to do about everything.

TFols

I was about to upgrade to a larger Weber kettle and ended up doing research on the egg and decided I had to have it. Drove past a dealer that was going out of business and pulled the trigger on an XL.

Jeepster47

Ozzie_Isaac said:

... I was convinvced after my dad's first butt was as good as my Weber Smokey Mountain butts.

1st try and he matched my best.  

What really drove me over the edge was my son's insinuation that a great butt was courtesy of the egg and not my cooking talents.

During the early 70's, the missus and I had a Japanese Hibachi/Kamado cooker similar to what Ed Fisher started with.  Our unit came courtesy of a C5 pilot who brought it back from Japan.  About every other house on base had one. All we knew how to do was cook steaks on them ... steaks out of the commissary were cheap back then.  When we moved back to the UP for a couple of years, it went with us.  Unfortunately is didn't survive the second winter up there. It was made of clay, got wet, then froze, and then bottom fell out of it when the spring thaw occurred.

So, we went through a number of charcoal and gas units while the kids sucked all of the money out of the household.  The last gasser was a cast aluminum model from Great Outdoors that has been rebuilt a number of times.  It was warrantied for about 40 years ... or it was until the company went out of business that is.

When our local market started carrying eggs about five years ago, the missus started dropping hints that she'd like one for cooking steaks.  For our 45th anniversary, the hints turned to threats.  Thus, I bought the egg just so she could relive the 1970's.  Turns out, as you well know, that one can cook a few more things than steaks on it. 

NPHuskerFL

Our 1st was a 15 yr anniversary gift from my Mother to my wife and I. Second one (MM) we bought because I figured it could be our egg on the road and for when I needed extra space for larger cooks or multiple temps (& just because  ). 

johnnyp

I was came across a list of things online  that were "a little more expensive, but worth every penny".  

As a man of limited financial resources, I started slow.  First, it was the nicer olive oil or better windshield wipers. Then I gave my fiancé, then girlfriend, a set of high thread count sheets and we bought a high end vacuum cleaner.  

With very few exceptions, we were agreeing everything we had tried so far was worth a couple extra bucks.  One that I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on was a $1000 grill. But I got a bonus at work and decided to make it happen.  I've never been happier with a purchase.

jaydub58

I had read about the Egg on a few sources, and was interested.
For my 70th birthday, my spouse asked me if I wanted a BGE as a gift.
Could I say no? 
Naaahh!    

ElkhornHusker

I have wanted an egg for at least 15 years but never wanted to spend the money.  So I purchased the knock-offs, cheap gas smokers but was never satisfied with the results and always to more with one unit.  After moving to NE from CO I was going to buy another "egg" knock-off and after reading more about that one I figured out it was steel not ceramic.  Finally the wife just said buy the egg and get it over with.  The versatility is what sold me on the egg, the price always scared me away, until this summer.  Very happy I took the plunge.

bgebrent

@WeberWho?, Outstanding!!

Dredger

December 1998, it was time for the semi-annual gasser rebuild. A guy I worked with had bought an egg and every Monday morning for about the past six months, all we heard about was the BGE and his cooks. Found a local dealer and got a great deal. Haven't looked back since.

ChokeOnSmoke

Loved my Weber Smokey Mountain but it just didn't perform that well on some of the harsher Wisconsin winter days/nights.  I do a lot cold weather cooking so the egg was my solution.

northGAcock

BYS1981 said:

@TigerTony just won the thread.

Hands down. 

JonWesson

bump

saluki2007

paqman

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