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Safe max temp for putting the cover on the Egg

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Dan in StL
Dan in StL Posts: 254
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
I did some ribeyes tonight and had the Egg close to the nuclear range. Needless to say, it was going to take a while for it to cool down. Well, a thunderstorm was moving in and I didn't want to expose the table to the rain. The thermometer was still in the 250 range when I put the BGE cover on.

Does anybody have any idea what the heat tolerance is on the BGE cover?
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  • Mike in Abita
    Mike in Abita Posts: 3,302
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    No,,,,, but I hope you post in the morning to give us the 250 dome test results. :woohoo:
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  • Jeffersonian
    Jeffersonian Posts: 4,244
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    I generally wait until the needle drops below 200 to slip the cover on, myself. I'd rather the Egg get a little wet than come out and find my cover melted to the dome....ugh.

    Some storm we're getting, isn't it?
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  • Dan in StL
    Dan in StL Posts: 254
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    I just went out to check and the cover's all in tact. The rain may have cooled everything down. But Jeffersonion, you're right, we got some BIG TIME rain here tonight. It's nice we got a Card's win in (barely) before it all cut loose. We dodged the hail and anything else too severe - hope you did too.

    Later!
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  • Broc
    Broc Posts: 1,398
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    My Eggs live outside in all weather -- heat, rain, ice and snow. They love it... They're like happy nudists, uncovered and all...

    ;) :ohmy: ;)
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  • thebtls
    thebtls Posts: 2,300
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    Remove the cast iron damper assembly and place on the ceramic cap and know the flashpoint of the materials you are exposing. I've been waiting for 200 on the dial or lower personally but the cool cap helps hold some of the material away. I usually spray some windex on my egg to wipe it down first too.
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  • Jeffersonian
    Jeffersonian Posts: 4,244
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    We had 3" in our rain gauge this morning, and I just read that we're 12.5" of rain over our average for this time of year. Got a little bit of hail, about marble-sized, in the last wave of storms around 1:00 am. We had taken our un-garaged cars up to West County Mall to park them under cover...better safe than sorry.

    Franklin darn near gave it up, but at least we didn't have a meltdown like the %&#!#()% Rockies did...how the hell do you blow an 8-run lead?!?!?!
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  • Jersey Doug
    Jersey Doug Posts: 460
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    I wait until I can hold my hand on the dome comfortably. If it's still hot when it starts to rain I bring the cover indoors so IT doesn't get wet and let the egg fend for itself. Same thing when it is too dark so see what I'm doing.

    After the reports I've seen here of mold and other nasty stuff growing in the eggs I'm starting to wonder if a cover is such a good idea after all.

    --Doug
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