Serious Eats BGE article... some help here, please

caliking

https://www.seriouseats.com/big-green-egg-kamado-grill-review-8678535

Apparently, a year of testing wasn't enough.

DoubleEgger

“I really appreciate the lack of breakable parts in the construction.” 

Haha 

fishlessman

These reviews always seem to be done by someone that never used a grill/smoker let alone an egg

caliking

It was a challenge for me to get past this part:

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

These reviews always seem to be done by someone that never used a grill/smoker let alone an egg

What is funny, is I bet that same is true for damn near every review out there.  People reviewing stuff they know nothing about.

That’s why I like forums with actual users.

fishlessman

Ozzie_Isaac said:

fishlessman said:

These reviews always seem to be done by someone that never used a grill/smoker let alone an egg

What is funny, is I bet that same is true for damn near every review out there.  People reviewing stuff they know nothing about.

That’s why I like forums with actual users.

It brings me back to an article about how to drive in ice and snow and the rear end is slipping/sliding. It didn't say how, it said don't.im thinking the journalist was born in miami

fishlessman

Heading out to get an ash pan. Stupid me bought an adjustable rig and a dutch oven, and a pizza stone to do 1200 degree pizza cooks with my non round bottom draft. So glad they never crack. Need to get a garage and a way to move this egg, someone should have told me I can't leave it outside in a snow bank back in 2001

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:
What is funny, is I bet that same is true for damn near every review out there.  People reviewing stuff they know nothing about.

And even if they are experienced...
ATK did a test of ceramic frypans a few years ago.  Most of them failed miserably, but I did purchase their Recommended brand (already forgotten, got it at BB & .  They cooked eggs in the pan thirty times in a row, and still performed "acceptably"; so did I, that's one month of breakfasts for me.  By the two-month point it was trashed and replaced with another cheep T-Fal.  

dbCooper

Wait, what?  If you don't have a "ash tray" you have to remove the fire ring to clean out the ash?  I use a Kick Ash Can as it's more convenient than using the Ash Tool, although either method is fine.  What is this "ash tray" for the Egg?  I think that is a KJ thing.

Gulfcoastguy

I guess that I’m an ash heretic pointing my leaf blower at the lower air intake to clean the Egg out. Of course I keep my Egg on concrete rather than a wooden deck.

DoubleEgger

Gulfcoastguy said:

I guess that I’m an ash heretic pointing my leaf blower at the lower air intake to clean the Egg out. Of course I keep my Egg on concrete rather than a wooden deck.

zaphod

I picked up a copy of an ATK book at the library this spring. I think it was "The Outdoor Cook - How to Cook Anything Outside Using Your Grill, Fire Pit, Flat-top Grill, and More" title.

In the section on charcoals they claimed that briquettes are much better as they light faster, burn hotter and last longer than lump charcoal. I put the book in the "to return" pile.

My dad was a huge fan and subscriber of Consumer's Reports. He told me that if CR said something was wrong with a product, check it out because there is likely something amiss. But everything else in CR was just opinion and conjecture.

zaphod

fishlessman said:

Heading out to get an ash pan. 

hey, I like my ash pan! It has the perfect lip on it to rest in the vent groove and nothing gets spilt.  i'm a sucker for simple but good design.

someone should have told me I can't leave it outside in a snow bank back in 2001

I have always liked this picture (from Facebook without permission)

stlcharcoal

Looks like he's only cooked on that thing twice in a year with how clean it is, and how good a gasket is still there.

OhioEgger

zaphod said:

My dad was a huge fan and subscriber of Consumer's Reports. He told me that if CR said something was wrong with a product, check it out because there is likely something amiss. But everything else in CR was just opinion and conjecture.

I would also add that CR has their biases, just like everyone else. They deny it, but it's often pretty obvious.