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Married men on here, does your wife support or (roll their eyes) regarding your addiction?

About three months in now, mine is slowly coming around. I have always done the cooking in the family (except baking which is her expertise) and have had a rather long career in the restaurant / food industry. I am having a blast!

I am curious and getting a pulse for the spousal acceptance of the Eggexpierence in your home. My money is on (OK with it) as they obviously benefit from the culinary out put....what say you?

Sorry if getting a bit personal...
Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • I think my wife originally rolled her eyes but not after my first attempt at baby back ribs. That converted her to fandom.
    Now, she DID roll her eyes and said hell no when I was talking about adding the XXL to my outdoor kitchen!
    Watkinsville, Ga   XL, Medium
  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 14,602
    loves the food, unsure of the forum and gets that stranger-danger look when I mention things like brisket camp
  • EggPerfection
    EggPerfection Posts: 124
    Mine loves handing over any meal I conjure and I know that she likes my ribs even more than I do!
    Best - Jack
  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 32,162
    SWMBO and I spend a lot of time in the parallel universe so she's fine with it eggcept when the occasional cook runs way long and the adult beverages lead the charge.  :)
    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.
  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,458
    She loves the food. Thought I was crazy to buy a second. Then we hit the eggfest after party and the first three people we talked to had 5, 12 and 6. I'm good now!
  • s_claus
    s_claus Posts: 74
    Since my wife got me my egg for Christmas, I'd have to say she definitely supports me. Plus she really enjoyed the Eggfest last weekend and is ready to go again. 
    HO HO HO
    LBGE in Lawrenceville, GA
  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    She encourages it.....says it beats smoking crack.

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."

                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,482
    I posted something like this about a year ago when I first started.  My wife excepted it and likes that I do most of the cooking now.  She also noticed that my mood changed and I was a lot happier.  She didn't like the price tag a first, but now loves the food I make on it.  She has once, when I was busy talking to a contractor about finishing the basement got the Egg going for dinner.  I think she may have found it as easy as starting the gas grill we used to have.  She doesn't understand all the post of food pictures, but she doesn't do much with her own Facebook page either.  
    XL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas Grill

    Kansas City, Mo.
  • Eggerty
    Eggerty Posts: 220
    My wife is supportive no doubt.  Love the food and with two kids helps take the load off of her from cooking.  But she rolls her eyes as well.  She thinks the EGG is like a third kid for me.  She calls me a salesman for the BGE.  We live in a new development and have had a lot of people over and the discussion with the guys always moves toward the BGE and how great it is. I guess it is true though, I was able to convince my next door neighbor to buy a BGE instead of a gasser.  Have another behind me that has the itch too.  I should get paid free meat for this...
    LBGE - Nov/'14
    A Texan residing in Denver, CO.
  • MrWigan
    MrWigan Posts: 104

    2 years of tough negotiation with a further promise of "I'll never buy another bbq again" resulted in me getting a Large BGE.  Now she says to everyone it cooks food much better than anything else.  Result!

    Now then how do I take back the promise and purchase a Mini Max?

    Large BGE, Mini Max

    Wigan, UK

  • DieselkW
    DieselkW Posts: 894
    edited May 2015
    Last summer she sat me down: "Please, for the love of God, can we have a dinner that is not some kind of smoked meat, or leftover smoked meat?" She was getting sick of the smell, bedroom window being pretty close to the Egg station. OK, I'll make something else for a while.

    On the plus side, we do not use our oven April to October. It just sits forlornly in the kitchen. The stove top is used to sauteé and make sides, although I always try to have room for veggies on the egg, sometimes all the real estate is used up by meat.

    She uses the crock pot sometimes, that's when I will season some iron or shop vac out the ash, or just enjoy a night off from cooking duties.

    There have been the occasional Sunday when I make breakfast, lunch, and dinner using only lump for heat.  I love buttery grilled cheese sandwiches made on a hot iron skillet set directly on the plate setter.

    So yeah, she rolled her eyes at the price.
    She rolled them backwards at the price of the table.
    I rolled my eyes at the price of the patio and deck and fence. :o

    She became a convert when I took her to dinner at our local BGE store. (He runs a catering business, cooks only with BGE's) After that, she was all about: "why can't you make that for us?"

    So now whenever I want to buy accessories, I just tell her it's so I can make salmon the way Chef JJ made it that time. Or so I can make huevos rancheros like we had at Chef JJ's that time.

    Hey, Costco is selling prime whole briskets for $3.49 a pound - close the bedroom windows honey, I'm smoking brisket!!

    Indianapolis, IN

    BBQ is a celebration of culture in America. It is the closest thing we have to the wines and cheeses of Europe. 

    Drive a few hundred miles in any direction, and the experience changes dramatically. 



  • Theophan
    Theophan Posts: 2,654
    s_claus said:
    Since my wife got me my egg for Christmas, I'd have to say she definitely supports me.... 
    Maybe it's something about guys who look like Santa Claus (people say I do too, though you've got me beat), because my wife bought me a Medium for Christmas one year, and a Large for Christmas the next year!  :)  She is very happy to have me cook, and she almost always loves what I cook.  (She's not a fan of lamb, so that's not her favorite, but everything else she's loved.)  I think she loved the ribs I cooked last night better than I did!

    Theo
  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,424
    Mine is pretty supportive, unless I try something new and it takes longer than expected and delays dinner.  I do most of the cooking anyway (much easier for me to work 6:30-3, so I pick our daughter up at school and make dinner).  She is really big on family time, so she really likes that my hobby keeps me around the house, rather than her friends' husbands who will do golf days/casino days/etc.  

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

  • Austin  Egghead
    Austin Egghead Posts: 3,966
    edited May 2015
    Since I am the Swmbo, and he likes to eat, he has never said anything about any cooking item that i have brought home.  BTW the first gift he gave me after he returned from vietnam was an 18x20 maple cutting board.   That board today is as good as it was the day I received it. 
    Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
  • Northarrow
    Northarrow Posts: 103

    Wife & I share an appreciation for the Eggs (LBGE & MM).  She didn’t blink when I bought the MM, (although I waited until she was gone for the weekend, just to be safe when I got home) =) .   She’s an artist with her pressure cooker, so quick delicious dishes during the week are simple, and on the weekends she gets to play while I fuss over the eggs.  It’s a perfect balance.  

    Kennebunk, Maine
  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,008
    My wife uses the egg.  It ain't going to bite. Try having egged food that you didn't have to make.  Now your living!  Get you girlfriends and or wives on them.  You will have 5 eggs before you know it!
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    My wife enjoys the food and we often cook together.  She can watch the egg and adjust the temperature but doesn't care to cook on it.  She gets annoyed when I take too many pictures, or when I talk too much about the food while we are eating and after :)

    My son (13) can now light the egg and did his first cook (burgers and dogs) last week, so I am looking forward to more egged food I don't have to make. 


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • BRush00
    BRush00 Posts: 367
    Totally supports the egg habbit, and she's even trying to get me to buy a mini-max
    [Insert clever signature line here]
  • Sea2Ski
    Sea2Ski Posts: 4,088
    This is my one hobby she does NOT complain time about. E.V.E.R.
     =) 
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    Burning lump in Downingtown, PA or diesel in Cape May, NJ.
    ....just look for the smoke!
    Large and MiniMax
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    Caliking said:   Meat in bung is my favorite. 
  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,458
    BRush00 said:
    Totally supports the egg habbit, and she's even trying to get me to buy a mini-max
     :o 
  • Angus1978
    Angus1978 Posts: 390
    Mine is also accepting of my grill....when the Chargriller died, she's the one that said, "here's 2200.00, get whatever you want, but it has to last at least 20 years"
    LBGE and Primo XL Plano TX All right all right alllll riight
  • Tupac
    Tupac Posts: 20
    My egg was an anniversary present from my wife. She loves it so much we ended up building a deck and putting in a 60 inch tv to enjoy it even more. I'm living the good life. 
    ________________________
    "I went into Alexandria for a barbecue. I stayed all night." - George Washington -Large BGE - Madison, MS
  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    Supports and often participates. 
    LBGE 2013 & MM 2014
    Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FAN
    Flying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
  • luckyboy
    luckyboy Posts: 284
    FedEx just handed me my Woo2.
    My wife is supportive enough as far as purchasing the egg but she is extremely pickie when it comes to eating meat, I mean it has to be almost cremated before she'll eat it.it makes cooking very tough at times.when it comes time for pork butts, when its done the only thing she allows me to do is put on a plate where she pulls it and strips it of any possible fat.She ok'd a bone in prime rib roast but she wouldn't eat it because of the rare meat but in saying that she found a way to reheat the meat the next day such that it taste like it just came off the egg but still wouldn't eat any.There is just her and I.
    The day after (reheating) pre heat an oven to temp.that you cooked the meat at. In a cast iron pan, put slice or slices in the pan an cover with lettuce leaves, when oven hits it's mark place pan in oven, in my case 12 minutes. 
    As far as Woo2, she dosen't know yet.
  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,482
    luckyboy said:
    FedEx just handed me my Woo2.
    My wife is supportive enough as far as purchasing the egg but she is extremely pickie when it comes to eating meat, I mean it has to be almost cremated before she'll eat it.it makes cooking very tough at times.when it comes time for pork butts, when its done the only thing she allows me to do is put on a plate where she pulls it and strips it of any possible fat.She ok'd a bone in prime rib roast but she wouldn't eat it because of the rare meat but in saying that she found a way to reheat the meat the next day such that it taste like it just came off the egg but still wouldn't eat any.There is just her and I.
    The day after (reheating) pre heat an oven to temp.that you cooked the meat at. In a cast iron pan, put slice or slices in the pan an cover with lettuce leaves, when oven hits it's mark place pan in oven, in my case 12 minutes. 
    As far as Woo2, she dosen't know yet.
    We had friends over once where the friends wife wanted her steak well done.  This is before I got the egg.  Needless to say, we don't have steak anymore when  they come over.  I hate wasting a good piece of meat by cooking it well done.  My son like the fat and my wife really like the fat in the point of the brisket.
    XL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas Grill

    Kansas City, Mo.
  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,482
    BRush00 said:
    Totally supports the egg habbit, and she's even trying to get me to buy a mini-max
    Your wife is a unicorn wife.  Don't lose her.  I'm envious.

    Rainbow Unicorn by metalmateria
    XL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas Grill

    Kansas City, Mo.
  • tarheelmatt
    tarheelmatt Posts: 9,867
    Keep your pimp hand strong and you'll have nothing to worry about...


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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 9,794
    Since I am the Swmbo, and he likes to eat, he has never said anything about any cooking item that i have brought home.  BTW the first gift he gave me after he returned from vietnam was an 18x20 maple cutting board.   That board today is as good as it was the day I received it. 

    @Austin Egghead,

    It's good to be the queen,

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX