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dougcrann
dougcrann Posts: 1,129
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...at our XL base. Cooked in our XL for the first time on Sunday. Touch over 10 hours at 275*, cooked a brisket. Thanks to being a bucket head I forgot to cover the plate setter with foil. Decided to clean it today. Brushed the grate off, scraped the plate setter clean. I keep the plate setter on a shelf in the table...and with 4 dogs it can't have any grease on it so I decided to cook it clean. Still had alot of fuel so I just lit it. Ran it up to 500*...after about 40 minutes snuffed it out. Was just outside with the dogs...could not help but notice the puddles of grease UNDER the Egg. Looks like there is a stain of some sort on the bottom of the base...Hmmmm...did I have ANOTHER failure....after 1 cook?....
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  • Jstroke
    Jstroke Posts: 2,605
    Easier to rip the band aid off now. Better find out.
    Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    I am not even gonna say what I found...but I will say I give up lol...
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  • Jstroke
    Jstroke Posts: 2,605
    Well, good for you for being brave. Good luck
    Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    That blows........

    "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."
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    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • dldawes1
    dldawes1 Posts: 2,208
    Look at it positively, If you keep mending and replacing parts, you'll end up with 2 XLs !!

    Donnie Dawes - RNNL8 BBQ - Carrollton, KY  

    TWIN XLBGEs, 1-Beautiful wife, 1 XS Yorkie

    I'm keeping serious from now on...no more joking around from me...Meatheads !! 


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  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,892
    dougcrann said:
    ...at our XL base. Cooked in our XL for the first time on Sunday. Touch over 10 hours at 275*, cooked a brisket. Thanks to being a bucket head I forgot to cover the plate setter with foil. Decided to clean it today. Brushed the grate off, scraped the plate setter clean. I keep the plate setter on a shelf in the table...and with 4 dogs it can't have any grease on it so I decided to cook it clean. Still had alot of fuel so I just lit it. Ran it up to 500*...after about 40 minutes snuffed it out. Was just outside with the dogs...could not help but notice the puddles of grease UNDER the Egg. Looks like there is a stain of some sort on the bottom of the base...Hmmmm...did I have ANOTHER failure....after 1 cook?....
    It may be a PITA, but I would clean it this way from now on:

     http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1195184/plate-setter-cleaning#latest


    ...you do need to have a window or two open to create a draft, but it works awesome and I wont ever have to worry about poping the egg due to heat
    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

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  • poster
    poster Posts: 1,352
    billt01 said:
    dougcrann said:
    ...at our XL base. Cooked in our XL for the first time on Sunday. Touch over 10 hours at 275*, cooked a brisket. Thanks to being a bucket head I forgot to cover the plate setter with foil. Decided to clean it today. Brushed the grate off, scraped the plate setter clean. I keep the plate setter on a shelf in the table...and with 4 dogs it can't have any grease on it so I decided to cook it clean. Still had alot of fuel so I just lit it. Ran it up to 500*...after about 40 minutes snuffed it out. Was just outside with the dogs...could not help but notice the puddles of grease UNDER the Egg. Looks like there is a stain of some sort on the bottom of the base...Hmmmm...did I have ANOTHER failure....after 1 cook?....
    It may be a PITA, but I would clean it this way from now on:

     http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1195184/plate-setter-cleaning#latest


    ...you do need to have a window or two open to create a draft, but it works awesome and I wont ever have to worry about poping the egg due to heat
    He was only at 500 though, no way should this have happened at only 500
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  • HoustonEgger
    HoustonEgger Posts: 616
    I've had grease/water puddle around my bottom vent and then drip onto the table before. Happens after a long cook like a Brisket - but no cracks in the base. It's the humidity that causes it here in Houston
    Formerly of Houston, TX - Now Located in Bastrop, TX
    I work in the 'que business now (since 2017)

    6 Eggs: (1) XL, (2) Large, (1) Small, (1) Minimax & (1) Mini - Egging since 2007
    Also recently gained: (1) Gas Thing (came with the house), (1) 36" Blackstone Griddle & (1) Pitts & Spitts Pellet Smoker
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  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,892
    poster said:
    billt01 said:
    dougcrann said:
    ...at our XL base. Cooked in our XL for the first time on Sunday. Touch over 10 hours at 275*, cooked a brisket. Thanks to being a bucket head I forgot to cover the plate setter with foil. Decided to clean it today. Brushed the grate off, scraped the plate setter clean. I keep the plate setter on a shelf in the table...and with 4 dogs it can't have any grease on it so I decided to cook it clean. Still had alot of fuel so I just lit it. Ran it up to 500*...after about 40 minutes snuffed it out. Was just outside with the dogs...could not help but notice the puddles of grease UNDER the Egg. Looks like there is a stain of some sort on the bottom of the base...Hmmmm...did I have ANOTHER failure....after 1 cook?....
    It may be a PITA, but I would clean it this way from now on:

     http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1195184/plate-setter-cleaning#latest


    ...you do need to have a window or two open to create a draft, but it works awesome and I wont ever have to worry about poping the egg due to heat
    He was only at 500 though, no way should this have happened at only 500
    Sometimes the best was to solve a problem, it to remove a variable all together....
    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    edited May 2016
    @billt01 ....so how does one cook a pizza if you never run the temperature up? 
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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    @billt01....thanks for the link...problem is self cleaning ovens didn't exist in the 50's....when my wifes O'Keefe & Merritt range was made...
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  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,892
    Awesome oven though!
    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    dldawes1 said:
    Look at it positively, If you keep mending and replacing parts, you'll end up with 2 XLs !!
    Already have 2Xls from the cracks. Have a cracked Large base and my chipped dome...should just buy a fire box and ring for a Large  lol...
    Not going to do anything about this....for now. I only use the XL  for lonslo...and have no troubles holding the temperature....
    I am tired of going to the dealer. My back is clapped out...lifting these things ain't doing me any favors. We are building an Egg grave yard behind my garage. Wife has plans of turning the cracked bases into planters. Bruce at Big Green Egg sent me a warranty band/hinge kit to fix my under/over bite on the Large. Suppose I can take the cracked base/chipped dome together with the defective band kit...will make a cool planter.  
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  • Whaler
    Whaler Posts: 110
    dougcrann said:
    @billt01....thanks for the link...problem is self cleaning ovens didn't exist in the 50's....when my wifes O'Keefe & Merritt range was made...
    All ovens were self cleaning. You cleaned them yourself..
    Pensacola,FL
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    You alone have had more issues than our entire customer base over a five year period. Bad luck or something?
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  • Chubbs
    Chubbs Posts: 6,929
    Sucks. Why don't you tell us what you found? I mean you did start a thread on it. Not trying to be a jackass. Just saying. Hope the mothership takes care of you.
    Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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  • johnnyp
    johnnyp Posts: 3,932
    pgprescott said:
    You alone have had more issues than our entire customer base over a five year period. Bad luck or something?
    He kicked a puppy once and the karma has come back with a vengence.


    I kid, I kid.  I'm sure you're a great guy.
    XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    johnnyp said:
    pgprescott said:
    You alone have had more issues than our entire customer base over a five year period. Bad luck or something?
    He kicked a puppy once and the karma has come back with a vengence.


    I kid, I kid.  I'm sure you're a great guy.
    It's definitely bad luck. I mean it happens, but he has paid it forward for a while IMO. 
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  • nhk19
    nhk19 Posts: 151
    Now I'm scared to run my egg over 450.
    XLBGE
    Lewisburg, PA
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    Love those Merrit and O'keefes

    you have the little periscope that lets you look into the oven?

    doing a kitchen reno and have been pricing the refurbed Merrit/Os. 

    Just don'r have the room
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  • minniemoh
    minniemoh Posts: 2,145
    Sorry to hear about the ceramic woes. I sure do love that stove/oven. That thing looks truly amazing.
    L x2, M, S, Mini and a Blackstone 36. She says I have enough now....
    eggAddict from MN!
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