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Jstroke
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As some of you may know i am no longer eggless. Had a great day yesterday cooking for the first time on my first egg. Fired it up in the morning and played with temps for 4-5 hours and cooked a couple sausages for breakfast. Then scratched my head and decided to make sure things were in order before further cooking. I bought the egg used and it needed some love. So i pulled from the nest, wired brushed with angle grinder the nest and Ms. Daisy and repainted. Refinished wooden handle and then built a hi-que grate out of the old cooking grate. Then packed up kids and off to LBGED where they had a stainless cooking grate waiting for me, ten percent off for my good looks. Filled my propane tank while i was there (wait) and drooled over the XL. Stopped by new HF store where they had 20 percent off and picked up a weedburner. Back to the house, egg back together and woosh. Decided on first official cook, did chick breast 400 indirect and three pizzas 500 indirect. The last one bbq chicken with cheddar and green onion. Breast was a little dry as I glazed with sauce too late but flavor profile was killer. Pizza was stellar. All good in the neighborhood.
Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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Most eggcellent launch-strong cooks right there. Looks like you a natural with pizza.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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Chicken breast can be very unforgiving of overcooking. Lowering the temp will give you more of a window to pull them. Glad you got it serviceable and running.Jacksonville FL
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Lousubcap, thanks, three kids so lots of practice on pizza. Honestly hot and fast is where i need practiceColumbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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@Istroke that sounds like a perfect day,and the cooks look awesome.Belleville, Michigan
Just burnin lump in Sumpter -
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OH--Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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I-O. Great cooks and look forward to more down the road. And GO BUCKS!!!!Clarendon Hills, IL
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Thanks my friend. Are you guys local. Im in columbus.Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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Way to hit the ground running. Nice cooks.
Lower the temps on the chicken and get a thermapen and you'll never overcook them again. The thermapen will pay for itself in saved food.
And, sorry but, GO BLUE!
Steve
XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio -
@Jstroke Not local. From Ohio originally but have been in Chicago area the last 20 years.Clarendon Hills, IL
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Yem, TP, on order. You are right 350 would have given me more windowColumbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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I'm in Atlanta. Tough living on the middle of SECville.New Albany, Ohio
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