Strange Stuff Growing Out of My Egg, Help Needed

ColoradoCook

This is a question for Egg users in the Northwest, or places that are damp and moist for long period of times.

I moved to the Portland, OR, area a few years ago from Colorado.  During the winter rainy months the Egg mostly stays covered with a grill cover but some moisture still gets under it. On a number of occasions, a strange substance seems to explode out the Egg.  This occurred after months of no usage.  I started thinking it was a mold or fungus that when heated would explode out the top vent.  I literally look like my BGE vomited, smells that bad too.

Yesterday I fired it up and decided to watch it to see exactly where it was coming from.  The material (vomit looking stuff) is oozing out of the Egg surface.  The glaze has tiny micro cracks (15 year old Egg) and whatever organic material growing there is heating up and bubbling out.  It eventually cooks out and I can rinse off easily.   During the dry Spring and Summers here the phenomenon is not happening.

Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?
Can the Egg be reglazed to prevent this happening?  Maybe I need a better cover.
Is a cracked finish a warranty claim?

Thank you for your help.  This is a head scratcher.

 

Thatgrimguy

Nothing to fear. Just means that a lot of water got logged in the ceramics and when you got her hot that water sweat out and drug some of the grease from your cooks with it. Get a spray bottle with some hot water and it should wipe right off.

This happens all the time on my 2  year old small egg because it spends a lot of time on the back of my RV in the elements. Worse part is it takes longer to get the egg to temp because it has to burn off all that water. Usually you can see the egg steam at the same time it oozes. 

saluki2007

Yup, Grim summed it up perfectly.  You could also do a clean burn and rid of a lot of it.

fishlessman

happens in the north east as well, next heavy rain and its gone. only happens between winter and mud season

kl8ton

I have had that happen once.  After having the egg 5 years, it was quite a surprise.  There is a classic pic on here somewhere of maybe @fishlessman
 egg "purging" . . . <edit> See above. . . must have been posting at the same time.  I really like that picture.

WeberWho

Impressive!

ColoradoCook

Great feedback.  Good to know that I'm not the only one experiencing this.  Funny story, when this happened to me for the first time, winter of 2014, it was pretty shocking.  I fired the Egg up for a high heat cook and walked away.  When I returned it was 4 times as worse than the pictures I posted.  It smelled so bad. I thought I might have trapped a critter in the Egg months previous and it had heated up and exploded out the top vent.  That's how bad it was.  Thanks again for the advice.

bhedges1987

Never seen it on mine. But as others have said, it happens to a lot of people. 

Mikee

I see that mess once or twice a year on my small which is uncovered. Use the egg and it then disappears.

As mentioned above, it does take longer to heat up the egg once moisture gets into the ceramics.