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Is my gasket ruined
braddil
Posts: 4
Im a new BGE xl owner. I did 3 cooks where I kept the temp to between 350-400. Then I did a pizza and got the temp up to a max of 550-600. When I was done, I noticed my gasket looked fried. I did some steaks a couple days later and got the temp up to around 700 pretty easy, so I don't think the seal is bad. I'm just worried that it might get worse. Is this normal? Is it something I should worry about and try to replace? I went to the dealer that I bought it from and looked at their demo model and the gasket looked to be in perfect shape - very unlike mine. Any advice???
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Oops, I meant to post pictures. I'll try again. Sorry.
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Here are the pictures. Thanks for any knowledge/advice on this!
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It's fine......for now. No worries, it will go soon enough but for now it's good.Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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YepKeepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX -
The gasket on both my Eggs have been totally fried for a long time. Doesn't make any difference except more smoke leaks out. I have done smokes for almost 20 hours just fine.
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Awesome! Thanks a lot! I've learned a ton already from reading through this forum. I'm doing Monterey Chicken for the family tomorrow. I'm having a lot of fun cooking on this thing. I kinda messed up some simple burgers on my sencond cook. I put the meat on way too soon (while there was still white smoke coming out) and they had a pretty unique flavor. My daughter really disliked them. I've been trying to convince her that it was me - not the Big Green Egg. We had steaks the other day turned out great! Thanks again everybody!
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For info, I emailed BGE about my gasket, which looks similar to yours. They got back to me and mailed one of within a few days. I have it here ready to go for when mine does end up going.. Might be worth getting one on stand by
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Wow mine looks 10 x worse and no Smoke leaks out better get my spare going.Lynnwood WA
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Looks normal to me. Just darkened by use. Mine started to come apart when it got burned.Eggo in N. MS
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Gasketless is the way to go!
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Not even close to fried. Wait till it turns to a bubbly black mess dripping down the outside.
You might want to check the dome seating near the rear. It looks a little more browned there. The gasket on a well seated dome will brown, then blacken around the edges. It will slowly burn away from the inside. One of mine has the inner 1/4" burnt away, the the outer edge is still a little grey.
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