How hot?

brownbw

Doing a clean burn... how hot have you ever got your egg? The needle has been around once and has lapped back to 200  I’d say it’s well over 1000°  

Elijah

I think I've heard they are rated to 1400? Hope you aren't there 😐

lousubcap

I will let those who do the burn respond to the specifics but next time pull your thermo (and give it a cal check after this run).  
Also be extremely careful when opening the BGE with any high temp direct cook going.  Give backdraft a look. FWIW-

brownbw

lousubcap said:

I will let those who do the burn respond to the specifics but next time pull your thermo (and give it a cal check after this run).  
Also be extremely careful when opening the BGE with any high temp direct cook going.  Give backdraft a look. FWIW-

Yeah I forgot to pull it. It’s probably toast. I had to refinish my table and got a new handle and gasket so I figured it’s a good time to do the burn. 

jtcBoynton

Clean burns are best done at around 600 to 700°F.  No need to go higher. No need to go beyond the range of your measuring device (hope you didn’t damage it). No need to have an uncontrolled fire in your egg.

i have run my egg at 850°F when making pizza. Yes I switched to a high temp thermometer so I could actually know. 

brownbw

Yeah it got away from me. Came inside for a few min and it went nuclear on me. Oh well. 

dmourati

Does a high temp burn like this throw off calibration on the dome thermometer? That may explain some things.

RRP

dmourati said:

Does a high temp burn like this throw off calibration on the dome thermometer? That may explain some things.

Yes it can - especially if you have one of those low ones. The best advice is to remove that useless spring clip that is attached to the probe inside your dome. Gravity keeps the thermometer in the hole.  

SciAggie

A wood fired oven burns clean above 600 degrees. So if the ceramics (not the air inside) teach somewhere in that range or above it will burn clean eventually. 

There is no need to go nuclear. (I understand it got away from you)

fishlessman

have done pizza in the 1200 degree range, the inside is pure white afterwards

cookingdude555

Is it just me, or do you not have bands on your cooker?  Maybe you melted them off?

fishlessman

cookingdude555 said:

Is it just me, or do you not have bands on your cooker?  Maybe you melted them off?

no peeking at the pizza thru the dome, be especially careful opening the dome the first time

cookingdude555

@fishlessman I love that pic, it makes me smile every time.  The pic from @brownbw does not seem to have bands on it is what I mean.

alaskanassasin

@cookingdude555 Maybe he disassembled it in preparation to install in his new table?  Good eye!

cookingdude555

alaskanassasin said:

@cookingdude555 Maybe he disassembled it in preparation to install in his new table?  Good eye!

yeah I’m sure there’s a good reason. I was just having some fun. 

brownbw

cookingdude555 said:

alaskanassasin said:

@cookingdude555 Maybe he disassembled it in preparation to install in his new table?  Good eye!

yeah I’m sure there’s a good reason. I was just having some fun. 

Yep. I am refinishing the table, needed a gasket and bought new bands for it.

I’m happy to report that the thermometer survived but I did have to readjust it. Dead accurate now. The only somewhat casualty was the firebox. It did have a crack in it but not a bad one and is still in one piece. It’s very very clean inside now though! 

brownbw

I was a little worried about the paint but it held up just fine. Had my old grate in it, and forgot about this casualty, but it’s trashed. Burned the coating off it - but I never use it anyway. 

dmourati

I recalibrated my dome thermometer. It was off by ~15F.

ThrasherIII

Are there outside temperature limits on doing kne of these clean burns at 600/700 degrees inside temp

PigBeanUs

No

you can’t think of doing anything to this that they havent already tested

ThrasherIII

PigBeanUs said:

No

you can’t think of doing anything to this that they havent already tested

Thank you not one to intentionally try to break an Anvil in a sandbox with a rubbt hammer but stranger things have happened. Seem i have some unwanted flavoring on the inside. So it is time a clean burn .

ThrasherIII

Okay oh wise ones , does the inside ever get white again?

PigBeanUs

I used to get grief here because at a football tailgate I would crash cool my bge by setting the cooler on a tailgate above the small BGE, and then I'd open the cooler drain and ice cold water would flow down thru the top vent, douse the coals, and flow out the lower vent. 

Then we could put it in the pickup bed and go in to the game

At an egg fest I cooked for the day and then picked up a large that my buddy was buying (at the sale price). It was the end of the day and the buyers were lined up to get their eggs, which were still hot after a day of cooking.

They were not in nests or anything (this was pre-nest), and moving them hot was a puzzle. Everyone wondering how they were gonna get them home and how long they had to wait for them to cool. 

I remembered an email conversation I had with Bruce at BGE. He said they used to jam a leafblower in the lower vent and get the egg to 1800, then dump icewater in them. R&D

I took my cooler over to the egg that was designated to my buddy. Was like 5 in the afternoon. I wasn’t going to hang out another four or five hours in a parking lot waiting for it to cool

Dumped the cooler directly into it. 

The distributer’s staff was apoplectic. One of them said “oH mY gOd bE cArEfUl yOu wIlL cRaCk tHe eGg?”

i said “ that’s ok. It’s under warranty!”

tossed it in the back of the wife’s SUV and drove away. 

Not sure when the others were able to leave. 

Carolina Q

@PigBeanUs, looked for this pic for a long time... finally found it! Was searching for a football tailgate pic, not remembering that it was an eggfest pic. Anyway, your cooler water in an egg...

nolaegghead

I heard Jeff was partial to the pink rubbermaid coolers.

PigBeanUs

Got that cooler 26 years ago. No joke, was a fvcking wedding gift! ...from an aunt. 

Came with a two-gallon matching coleman, and their gallon jug cooler. 

The two-gallon melted through when I put a pork butt in it to FTC, along with one of the fire bricks from the BGE. 

The swivel locking nozzle on the jug busted when my son tossed it at football practice. 

Just threw out the bigger cooler last year (25th year)

was originally red. Went pink after sitting outside a couple years.

I think anyone who believes a color is more or less feminine (pink=gay, to borrow the common uneducated person’s thinking) is an idiot. 

You’re not an idiot, nor uneducated. 

Try not to imply that someone’s sexuality can be inferred from a sun-baked 25 year old cooler. 

If you need to, I can have sex with you wife to prove it.

(as long as she’s not that long haired freak in all your photos. Please tell me that’s not a woman. )

[insert seinfeld_costanza_do-you-want-to-have-sex-right-now.gif]

EDIT: (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

PigBeanUs

Carolina Q said:

@PigBeanUs, looked for this pic for a long time... finally found it! Was searching for a football tailgate pic, not remembering that it was an eggfest pic. Anyway, your cooler water in an egg...

That’s actually a tailgate pic from Gillette. Early years, when they reorganized the parking lot a couple years after opening (look at the lines). I may have posted it in an eggfest thread but that pic was from a tailgate. It’s my small BGE. 

Used to take the BGE all the time. 

I pulled in one time next to another tailgater. You know, because they wave you in one after another end to end and side by side. 

He saw me unload the BGE and light it, and then a cigar with the dying match. 

He off-loaded a gasser and said “charcoal? Who uses charcoal at a tail gate?”

I cracked a beer and sat down. And said “we’ll be eating before you”, and tossed some dry aged rib eyes on the fold-out table while the egg came to searing temps. Then three or four minutes a side.  

Wasn’t more than fifteen minutes later and his wet floppy steaks were still steaming on his propane canister p.o.s. 

We offered them some steaks and scallops in bacon etc 

was a good day. 

Patriots won, too. Like they used to. 

nolaegghead

PigBeanUs said:

Got that cooler 26 years ago. No joke, was a fvcking wedding gift! ...from an aunt. 

Came with a two-gallon matching coleman, and their gallon jug cooler. 

The two-gallon melted through when I put a pork butt in it to FTC, along with one of the fire bricks from the BGE. 

The swivel locking nozzle on the jug busted when my son tossed it at football practice. 

Just threw out the bigger cooler last year (25th year)

was originally red. Went pink after sitting outside a couple years.

I think anyone who believes a color is more or less feminine (pink=gay, to borrow the common uneducated person’s thinking) is an idiot. 

You’re not an idiot, nor uneducated. 

Try not to imply that someone’s sexuality can be inferred from a sun-baked 25 year old cooler. 

If you need to, I can have sex with you wife to prove it.

(as long as she’s not that long haired freak in all your photos. Please tell me that’s not a woman. )

[insert seinfeld_costanza_do-you-want-to-have-sex-right-now.gif]

EDIT: (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

(pretty sure you know where I got this)

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nolaegghead

Revisiting the issue of rapid heating and cooling...as much as an R&D department may test extinguishing a 1000 degree ceramic cooker, it doesn't mean there's no impact on the longevity of  ceramic's structural integrity.  Given there's a lifetime warranty on the top and base is great, but it's PITA to get warranty service.  And a catastrophic failure involves an unattended fire in some real world cases.  You could lose everything, including your blue coolers.

ThrasherIII

How often do you do a clean burn? 

In simpler forms how often do you clean the inside of the egg to prevent it from impacting the flavor of your cook?
seems i may have gone a bit long jn doing so. 

Carolina Q

ThrasherIII said:

How often do you do a clean burn? 

In simpler forms how often do you clean the inside of the egg to prevent it from impacting the flavor of your cook?
seems i may have gone a bit long jn doing so. 

I don't remember the last time I did it. 8-10 years ago maybe? Unnecessary, IMO. A waste of charcoal.