Table Caution!

Steve-O

I'm sure that this has been mentioned previously, but I feel that it is worth repeating. It is PARAMOUNT when your egg is in a table or setting directly on your deck that you protect the wood under it with a ceramic garden stone or some other concrete, ceramic or slate. I had my egg sitting directly on the bottom shelf of a cedar table that I built. After a few uses I began to notice some blackening of the wood around the bottom of the egg. I was concered about what was going on, so I removed the egg and found that the center boards had been charred almost all the way through! They actually looked like that had been in a fire! Were it not for the reinforcing brace that I had put directly under the egg, I'm sure that the egg would have fallen through the bottom shelf! I removed the bottom shelf entirely from the table, replaced the burned boards with new cedar boards, and reinstalled the shelf 2" lower to accomodate an 2"x18" round cereamic stone that I placed between the egg and the bottom shelf. I wanted the bottom shelf 2" lower to retain the nice, flush appearance of egg around the hole in the table top. I have not, yet, had any problem with the wood directly around the top part of the egg.

Sundown

Steve-O,[p]Try using the little feet BGE gave you. A little air flow is a good thing. Your ceramic stone will still conduct heat. Some people have the Egg - on his little feet sitting on a stone. Also, you may want to leave a little ash in the bottom to act as an insulator. Had my Egg going on 4 years and all I have him on is his little feet on the bottom shelf and not a burn mark in sight.

Charcoal Mike

<p />Steve-O,[p]Yes, I would highly recommend the feet. Any anything else you can think to put between the egg and the wood. The heat from my egg broke two ceramic tiles (even with the feet), and one 3/4" quarry stone before I finally ended up buying a Kiln Shelf for mine. The kiln shelf is 1" thick, and is supposed to handle 2500 degrees (made out of the same material as a plate setter).[p]Cheers![p]- Mike

Nature Boy

Sundown,
But you, like me, live in the moist east!! A whole different ballgame when you are in a dry climate. Wood gets real dry. Everything gets real dry. Like night and day compared to our conditions.[p]Heee! Camping/Qing trip starts in da mornin. Yall have a great weekend![p]Chris