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What do you do with your plate setter when it's out of your Egg?

Abter
Abter Posts: 128
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I've seen an amazing array of good ideas (and some pretty....unique ones) about how to do everything Egg related.   When I had my Egg in a regular nest, I didn't feel to bad about not knowing what to do with my plate setter when I took it out...especially if it was hot.  Heck, I didn't know what to do with a LOT of things related to cooking on an Egg then.  Now that I have my just completed Egg table...I still don't really know what to do with the plate setter.  I put a porcelain tile on my table's lower shelf that works, but I wonder if anyone has any ideas or suggestions.
Stay Calm and Egg On
1 lonely medium in Rockville, MD
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  • yljkt
    yljkt Posts: 799
    If I'm doing indirect its in the egg. If going direct it lives on the bottom shelf of table until direct cook is done. Then goes back in hot egg along with DFMT and rain cap goes on to put egg out. I can't say I have ever pulled a hot plate setter out of either egg. 
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,213
    This will hold the platesetter. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Grate-Rack-Green-Large-Medium/dp/B00TIWUJXE
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    I store mine as well as my pizza stone in a short sealed container and shove it back under my table.

    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Abter
    Abter Posts: 128
    ylijkt;  I have pulled it out hot a few times when I change what's cooking in the egg.  I have had a few situations I did low-and-slow pork ribs, and then wanted to do steaks for some folks that didn't want the ribs.
    Double egger...that grate rack is exactly the type of idea I was hoping to find.  I never realized that they could hold a plate setter.   I had also considered using something like a Lodge DO lid stand.
    Stay Calm and Egg On
    1 lonely medium in Rockville, MD
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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    Sits on a shelf in my table. I can put it on the shelf whether it's hot or cold. The MM's PS and Za stones are stowed away on the same shelf. 
    LBGE 2013 & MM 2014
    Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FAN
    Flying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,540
    edited July 2016
    NPHuskerFL said:
    Sits on a shelf in my table. I can put it on the shelf whether it's hot or cold. The MM's PS and Za stones are stowed away on the same shelf. 
    (Don't try on a wood table if hot) Husker is rocking a stainless table. Just want to make sure that's mentioned before someone lights their table up like a Christmas tree! =)
    "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
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,540
    @RRP Fat fingers my friend. I've never intentionally disliked a comment or selected off topic in a post. No worries 
    "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
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  • cheeaa
    cheeaa Posts: 364
    Usually on the Weber
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,739
    I put it in one of my other eggs, or on the ground.

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,528
    See - that's what your old gasser is for.....safe place to store a setter, hot or cold and it is the best warming oven around. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Wherever. Usually, I have to look around to see where I left it. :) I don't use it often.

    And I don't have an old gasser.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Mikee
    Mikee Posts: 897
    I leave it on the gas grill shelf. The gas grill is just used for storage; inside and out.
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  • Captain_Paul
    Captain_Paul Posts: 138
    Bottom shelf under the Egg. Designed table that way for that exact purpose. Then two bins on the right for charcoal and chips. 
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    LBGE, Minimax
    Owensboro, Kentucky
    Go Cats!
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  • dougcrann
    dougcrann Posts: 1,129
    My table has a shelf that the Eggs sit on. Plate setters sit here as well....
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I lean it up against the egg table on the deck.  I really need to make a spot for it since we just painted the house and soon to clean the deck to match.  No fire risk, just messy grease and it will get hot enough to melt plastic.
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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    I might have used the PS a handful of times because I bought the AR soon after getting the egg. The PS sits in the table in a drawer under the egg.
    Aledo, Texas
    Large BGE
    KJ Jr.

    Exodus 12:9 KJV
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • Judy Mayberry
    Judy Mayberry Posts: 2,015
    I store my platesetters in the cardboard boxes they came in, standing on edge in a deck box. Next to them are styrofoam squares separating different sizes of pizza stones. I don't usually take the PS out until the next day, so it's cold. If I have to take it out hot, I put it on the cement patio to cool.

    On the left is the large PS and there is a mini pizza stone in that box as well.
    In the box on the right is the Small PS.


    Judy in San Diego
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