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Ready to fire for the first time

Wooderson
Wooderson Posts: 382
edited March 2017 in EggHead Forum
Hello all. New to the egg head experience here.  My lovely wife bought me a large egg for my birthday with some extras.  I've been poking around on the web for beginner tips and have gotten some good pointers.  I built my own table nest and my final coat of sealer has dried.  I'm adding my hooks tonight and loading this bad boy in the table.  Any pointers for my first burn?  Sounds like it's risky to add wood for smoking after the initial fire is started.
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,827
    Welcome aboard and enjoy the journey.  Above all, have fun.
    Ask away with any questions and odds are you will get several options, all of which will work.
    Here's a great link to all things ceramic:
    http://www.nakedwhiz.com/ceramic.htm  Chances the answers to your questions are in the site somewhere.
    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.  
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  • jeffwit
    jeffwit Posts: 1,348
    Are you cooking or just burning? If cooking, pick something uncomplicated, like chicken breasts. Get your fire going however you decide, let it settle in at your desired temp for a while, and cook away. 
    I've added smoking wood many, many times during a cook without any issues.
    Welcome aboard. 
    Jefferson, GA
    XL BGE, MM, Things to flip meat over and stuff
    Wife, 3 kids, 5 dogs, 4 cats, 12 chickens, 2 goats, 2 pigs. 
    “Honey, we bought a farm.”
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Welcome.  It's fine to add wood after your fire is set up.  I usually add it prior to lighting.  Have fun!
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    My biggest advice to anyone new is to not assume that your target temp is stable until at least 15 minutes after it has first been reached. If you make any adjustments at all the 15 starts over. It took me a few times to realize this. I guess the other biggest thing is having your daisy wheel open or close when you open the lid.

    You are about to have a great ride. Look forward to your reporting back.
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Welcome.  Enjoy the journey......there will be a learning curve - just stick with it and enjoy the ride.

    "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
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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262

    Welcome.  It sounds like your wife came up with this on her own?  You hit the spousal lottery my friend.

    Soak it all up here on the site.  Lots of good people around. The tip I'll give is to have fun with it.  It can be a little frustrating at first to achieve a certain temp (and holding it) - you'll get it. 
    Phoenix 
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  • yljkt
    yljkt Posts: 799
    I wouldn't cook anything. Get it lit, and play with the vents to get an idea how it works and where you need to be for different temps. That's the advice I got sometime back and it saved me from wrecking some food. Spent the better part of a saturday doing that, but well worth it.   
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  • saluki2007
    saluki2007 Posts: 6,354
    Welcome aboard the crazy train.  Don't be afraid to ask questions, or of some of the crazy banter.  Also, google is your friend.  Anything you are looking for just search eggheadforum and then whatever it is you want to find out.
    Large and Small BGE
    Central, IL

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  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
    Cook something, anything, just jump in.
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  • ToTheMax
    ToTheMax Posts: 150
    edited March 2017
    There was definitely a learning curve with getting the temp to where I need it.

    I think my first cook was baby back ribs. 

    Pick something, smoke/grill it and enjoy!
    Northern Virginia
    LBGE ~'14
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  • SaintJohnsEgger
    SaintJohnsEgger Posts: 1,826
    Welcome and congrats on the new Egg.

    To steal from Nike - Just Do It.
    Marshall in Beautiful Fruit Cove, FL.
    MiniMax 04/17
    Unofficial BGE MiniMax Evangelist
    Facebook Big Green Egg MiniMax Owners Group


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