Egg is oozing

Chetscapes · November 2017

I cooked a frozen pizza on my stone at 450 and noticed my egg was oozing. Yesterday I smoked some country style pork ribs. My egg was kept on my screen porch so it didn't get wet from dew or rain. Is this normal? I have had my egg for 3 years.

Carolina Q · November 2017

Perfectly normal. Wash with water or simple green. Or just wait for the next rain.

Chetscapes · November 2017

Is the outside of the egg porous?

4Runner · November 2017

No worries. Keep Eggin

smokeybreeze · November 2017

My hypothesis on this situation is that (a) you don't use drip pans (I don't), or (b) you don't do a claening burn often enough (I don't), or (c) you do too many low and slow cooks (like me). The fix is to do more pizza cooks and cleaning burns all 12 months of the year and let rain and snowfall clean the outside of your BGE. (That's what I do now)

MrCookingNurse · November 2017

Just the egg sweats... don't over think it

Chetscapes · November 2017

Any need to cover the egg outdoors? I️ moved out the screen porch due to ash and charcoal making a mess.

RRP · November 2017

Chetscapes said:

Is the outside of the egg porous?

The exterior of the dome and base of your egg is made of clay in a liquid stage poured into molds. That clay in that liquid form is called slip. As the mold extracts the water from the slip the damp clay left behind is in a very weak state but retains its shape and is then called "greenware" and that name has nothing to do with BGE! The greenware must be handled carefully as it can easily be damaged and misshapen until it is fired in high temperature kilns. By the end of that stage of firing it is pristine white in color, very hard, but still porous. Then the exterior of the pieces are sprayed with a liquid called glaze. The pieces are again fired in a kiln and that glaze turns "glass like" and are very hard. While the glaze is hard just the same is not "diamond tough" and minute pores exist and sometimes the glaze develop tiny - invisible to the eye cracks - commonly called "spider webbing". Some owners have problems show up with this spider webbing and others don't. While the most severe spider webbing leads to the glaze popping off the outer surface when there is a build up of moisture under the glaze that gets sufficiently hot that is NOT a common problem. OTOH as long as you are the original buyer you have a lifetime guaranteed replacement of those parts. The cost of replacing such damaged exterior pieces of a BGE is why most people believe in not buying used eggs as those exterior domes and bases are VERY expensive to replace out of pocket.