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Fruit Wood Residue - What to Do?

cayenneman
cayenneman Posts: 6
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Fairly new to the Egg, not new to smoking.  Lots of residue from using too much pecan, cherry, and apple I'm assuming.  Liquid at first then gums up everything after cool down.  The vent tray, running down the back, my lid stuck shut the other day and had to pry it open.  Did a high temp burn this morning which cooked a lot of it (750 for 30 minutes).  Anyone know how to remedy this?  More charcoal???
Perry, Georgia
XL BGE, Weber Performer
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    Fill the box... Clean burn.. 750 till out.. Remove the thermo
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,528
    What henapple says - Give the ceramic a rub with some scrunched tin foil after the burn, sweep her out, rinse and repeat if need be. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • plumbfir01
    plumbfir01 Posts: 725
    or sell it to me  :))
    Beaufort, SC
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  • cayenneman
    cayenneman Posts: 6
     Got it,  I'll do it again today and I do understand binary.  In fact, I've got a binary wrist watch.  Now that is challenging to figure out the correct time  :-O
    Perry, Georgia
    XL BGE, Weber Performer
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  • laserdoc85
    laserdoc85 Posts: 577
    Dude,
    Not to worry. I have an egg that is 13 years old and I never did a clean burn on it until about last week :). It was thick and black and an inch thick and still cooked like a champ.
    I have not cooked on it since the clean burn but will probably do some steaks Sat or Monday.
    After you cook and the coals are out lift the lid up and stick a screwdriver or a real small piece of wood in there like a wedge so your lid wont close all the way. You will not have the issue of a sticky lid at all this winter. Summer is not an issue with stuck lids
    Jefferson .GA.  
    Been egging since 1985 on a medium egg
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