grease dripping at bottom of egg

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I have been using my egg on a weekly basis for a bout a year. I have noticed grease drippings on the ground/floor beneath the egg. [p]When looking directly underneath the egg (from the outside)you can see a dark circle on the bottom of egg where the grease is dripping. When looking at the bottom of egg from the inside, their is no accumulation of grease & the ceramic appears to be dry. Is this normal? Is there any way to prevent this or is something wrong with the egg?

Rascal

Sure sounds like you've got something wrong going on there. You should talk to BGE in ATL as they've probably heard of every problem imaginable. Good luck to you!

Rascal

stike

could it be running down the outside back of the egg and collecting on the underside?

Michael B

This was posted on the .com forum.

Darnoc

I think the only thing that would cause this is because whatever you are using for a drip pan on your cooks is not large enough to catch what is dripping down into the egg.The reason you will not see anything in the bottom of the egg is because it has burnt off.What is under the egg would be what was able to leak out.

Michael B

Derek Cohen,
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Mike in Abita

I noticed the same thing one time when I did a brisket. Found out it wasn't the egs fault, it was operator error. Once I finished cooking I shut it down and removed my disposable drippan. It was then I realized it had a hole in it. Inside of egg looked good to either grease being burnt off or the fact that ash was absorbing some of it. Bottom of egg looked bad.

Broc

Have you checked the inside of the egg?

Remove fire ring --

Remove fire nest --

Now -- you have an empty Egg... I usually let my [dedicated] shop vac suck up all the debris which gathers within the Egg.

Then -- carefully reassemble, with the intake of the nest facing the exterior intake of the Egg -- put back fire ring, and then the grid.

Now -- get some good lump in there and do a hot burn [700+] for at least an hour... This'll burn off all the goo within the Egg.

Let 'er cool, remove the guts again, and rub crinkled Al Foil over all the surfaces, vac out the fine dust, reassemble and you're good to go!

Good Luck!

~ Broc

Archcam

I saw this recently and did what @Broc wrote to do. There's no crack in my Egg, so it must be moisture carrying grease through the bottom, as @Photo Egg  noted here: https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1229510/grease-dripping-from-egg-bottom?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=grease+outside+bottom+egg.  One addendum to Broc's process: When after the "cleansing cook" the Egg is cool enough to open, do so. I let mine cool all the way down overnight with the lid closed and I had to use a scraper and rubber hammer to break the seal enough to open it.  It was a pain in the hinder.

RRP

Archcam said:I let mine cool all the way down overnight with the lid closed and I had to use a scraper and rubber hammer to break the seal enough to open it.  It was a pain in the hinder.

Even though you used a rubber hammer I shudder every time I read “hammer” near a BGE!  A newbie comes along and forgets the word rubber or doesn’t have a rubber mallet might pick up a hammer and have at it! One slip and one cracked, ruined egg!

Archcam

RRP said:

Archcam said:I let mine cool all the way down overnight with the lid closed and I had to use a scraper and rubber hammer to break the seal enough to open it.  It was a pain in the hinder.

Even though you used a rubber hammer I shudder every time I read “hammer” near a BGE!  A newbie comes along and forgets the word rubber or doesn’t have a rubber mallet might pick up a hammer and have at it! One slip and one cracked, ruined egg!

Fortunately not much force was needed. Just enough to wedge the spackling knife in between the two sides of the gaskets in a couple of places and the dome opened.