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Wife wants an Egg....

....just for baking...not going to argue...stopped in a dealer today. Going to get a medium. She wants an indirect set up. My only experience with indirect setups is plate setters...a cast iron one for the Large and the ceramic one we got with the XL back in 06 or so. Been looking at the Ceramic Grill Stores stuff....any input would be greatly appreciated..

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,879
    @RRP has a medium that is strictly for baking.  Hopefully he will be along with some pearls of wisdom.   Another convert...
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
  • bettysnephew
    bettysnephew Posts: 1,191
    I would get the CGS Woo2 and ceramic stone or a couple of fire bricks for indirect. The fire bricks will add a lot of thermal mass to keep temperatures very even. Maybe bricks (they're cheap) and stone for even more mass. The Woo will make it easier to remove baked goods as she will not have to reach down into the grill to retrieve the finished product.
    A poor widows son.
    See der Rabbits, Iowa
  • SkySaw
    SkySaw Posts: 656
    Also get a BGE pizza stone - they are excellent for baking (pretzels, bagels, breads, etc.).
  • THEBuckeye
    THEBuckeye Posts: 4,232
    I'd go with the ceramic PS. The CI's are heavy. SWMBO might not like it?
    New Albany, Ohio 

  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    lousubcap said:
    @RRP has a medium that is strictly for baking.  Hopefully he will be along with some pearls of wisdom.   Another convert...
    LOL - my string of pearls is pretty short!  Yes, my medium is strictly for baking - no meat, not even pizzas. Also no wood. It is now 15 years old, merely tan throughout inside and even still sporting the original old style gray felt gasket. I seldom bake over 350º. I just use a PS and it too is light in color. 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
  • bhedges1987
    bhedges1987 Posts: 3,201
    Keep that wife

    Kansas City, Missouri
    Large Egg
    Mini Egg

    "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" - Gandalf


  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,739
    edited April 2016
    All three of mine are for only baking ... steak, ribs, shoulder, veggies, chicken, etc.

    Btw, Congrats!

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    I am doing something wrong. Mine wants new cabinets in the laundry room. Laundery room (shaking my head).
    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
  • JohnnyTarheel
    JohnnyTarheel Posts: 6,629
    I second keep that wife !!!!
    Charlotte, NC - Large BGE 2014, Maverick ET 733, Thermopen, Nest, Platesetter, Woo2 and Extender w/Grid, Kick Ash Basket, Pizza Stone, SS Smokeware Cap, Blackstone 36"
  • Chubbs
    Chubbs Posts: 6,929
    My next egg will only be for boiling briskets
    Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    Chubbs said:
    My next egg will only be for boiling briskets
    Isn't that called a caldron? 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    Only problem is now I need to build another table...2 XL'S,  a Large, a Medium and a Mini...hmmm...
  • MotownVol
    MotownVol Posts: 1,072
    What a women!
    Morristown TN, LBGE and Mini-Max.
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    dougcrann said:
    Only problem is now I need to build another table...2 XL'S,  a Large, a Medium and a Mini...hmmm...
    You trying to become the @badinfluence of the North West??? I'll know it's a fact when you buy one of those huge nylon BGE balloons like he has!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
  • badinfluence
    badinfluence Posts: 1,774
    @RRP Pete is now the proud owner of the Inflatable. At least he has a use for it. I also have a large egg I only use for baking. It to is only slightly tan inside. I have done 425 for baking bread in mine though.
    1 XXL BGE,  1 LG BGE, 2 MED. BGE, 1 MINI BGE, 1 Peoria custom cooker Meat Monster.


    Clinton, Iowa
  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    I am doing something wrong. Mine wants new cabinets in the laundry room. Laundery room (shaking my head).
    Learn the words "Yes Dear" it goes a long way on future BGE purchases, and other things nefarious.
    Happy wife, less sedation required, for either of us.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    YukonRon said:
    I am doing something wrong. Mine wants new cabinets in the laundry room. Laundery room (shaking my head).
    Learn the words "Yes Dear" it goes a long way on future BGE purchases, and other things nefarious.
    Happy wife, less sedation required, for either of us.
    I tried to drill into a buddies head that "Yes Dear" ritual....guess tell buckethead didn't get it,  divorced within 5 years
  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    If you are only using it for baking then I would just go with a plate setter. I think the only option is a Woo and stone but if you aren't planning on cooking raised direct then it won't really be of much benefit and it more expensive.  


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