Egg not heating.

Theophan said:

Little Steven said:

Lose the starters ... I find the starters don't work with the dome closed

@Bwill, you said you cleaned it out, but you didn't say whether you removed the fire box or not.  There was a time when I couldn't get a really hot fire, either, and it turned out that a whole lot of ash had built up between the fire box and the wall of the Egg itself, cutting down on the air flow.  If you haven't tried that, yet, take out the fire box and fire ring and get rid of any ash there.  Then put them back, carefully aligning the main opening in the fire box with the opening of the vent, and then putting back the fire ring as well.  That may make a difference.

Theophan said:

Darby_Crenshaw said:

what steven is saying is that the startes have a way of snuffing out if they do not get a lot of airflow.  ...  starters need to be fully on fire, and burned away, before you should shut the dome.

I'm fascinated by how different our experience apparently is.  I've had two Eggs (Medium and Large) for a number of years, now, have never used any lighting method other than starter cubes, have never, ever lit one and left the dome open.  Yet here you are saying (a bit dogmatically, if I may say so) that one must never shut the dome until the starters are burned away.  I'm not sure why our experience is so different.  Maybe it's all that rain in England?   (Am I recalling correctly that you live there?)

I stand by my original statement, though, echoing several others, here, that how one lights the fire has exactly nothing to do with how hot one can get the Egg.  The advice to "get rid of starters" is a red herring, and can only divert the original poster away from solving the problem.  Lots of us use them for every cook and have no problem at all getting a hot fire.