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That's the second post I've read from Travis today. Somebody's been watching Full Metal Jacket
As for me, I had no interest in them at first. During college I cooked on a little charcoal grill. I liked it, nut longed for a fancy new gas grill upon graduation. Well, as a graduation gift, my roomate gave me a used weber kettle. Used it for a few years until the legs rusted off. I really liked it and considered getting another charcoal grill, but the wife didn't want to deal with charcoal.
Finally got enough money for my fancy gasser. Ok it was a Charbroil professional series, but at age 25, that's as fancy as the budget allowed. Wife still wouldn't use it and said grilling was my job. Hurricane Irene came last year and blew over the gasser that I had put money into every year because the insides kept rusting. Fired the gasser up after the hurricane and flames shot out of the knobs (that was fun to turn off). Meanwhile I had seen eggs over the years at home shows. Had burgers cooked on one as soon as the gasser was dead, a new egg arrived.
I'll never look back and will never own another Charbroil product again.
So we ended up with an XL & Small within about a week.
Bay Area, CA
I ate off of a friends egg for a couple of years and always liked the way everything he cooked came out. Then one day he made a prime rib roast that was as good as a place near me which was the only place I could eat steak away from home. At that point I had to get one, Well, it took almost 2 years but I went to the Woodburners eggfest and took possession of my first egg. Now I have a second large and I am just waiting for the right time to get a small.
BTW that place, the Library II is still the only place I will eat prime rib, or any steak away from home.
Every time my elbow bends my mouth flies open.
I waited for almost two years before I bought my LBGE back in 2005.
Hoppette and I had tasted smoked butt from a friend's egg for years before I found the money to buy one.
Took about 15 lbs. of pulled pork to a family gathering last night, (a Bon-fire event) and every one enjoyed the sandwiches and Brunswick stew. My son-in-law who has been smoking butts for years remarked it was the best he has ever tasted.
Best investment I have ever made.
Every time my elbow bends my mouth flies open.
Steve
Caledon, ON
Kind of spontaneous... Went shopping one day. Jacksons, for those of you in Dallas. Started talking to the sales rep about the BGE. When he started talking about how it would go for 16 hours or more on one load of charcoal, I threw out the coach's red challenge flag, screaming BS.
My point of reference was my offset firebox smoker that I had used for years. New charcoal about every 60-90 minutes.
A customer walked by, overheard our conversation and affirmed the sale's rep's story.
2 days later, I was cooking on my XL. I get teary eyed just thinking about it...
Damascus, VA. Friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail.
LBGE Aug 2012, SBGE Feb 2014
A BGE chiminea, a small and a 17" BS in Las Cruces, NM
My first taste test and I was hooked. I now have two. We have a mini for the camper. I hated leaving my BGE behind when we went camping. Now, the mini has it's own bedroom in the camper!