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Heard a loud "pop" while cooking. Am I in trouble?

tenpenny_05
tenpenny_05 Posts: 286
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Was searing some steaks around 650. Standing over the grill with the lid open I heard a loud ceramic sounding pop noise. First good once over I didn't see any cracks, but was wondering if I'm likely in for a world of hurt....
Kansas City, Kansas
Second hand Medium BGE, Second hand Black Kamado Joe Classic, Second hand Weber Kettle, Second hand Weber Smokey Mountain
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    Probably cracked your fire box which will be evident when it cools down and you can move the ashes around to inspect. If you are the original buyer then that is under warranty. Many of us here continue to use broken fire boxes. Once one of mine was in 5 pieces and held together by gravity. Stuff happens! 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Do you have a cast iron grid? Those are notorious for cracking. And you can hear them when they crack. Don't ask me how I know.

    But i's probably ceramic. Warranty...

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

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    Only if your lady took a shot at you....JKOC. 
    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
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  • FatTrout
    FatTrout Posts: 23
    If it is ceramic and your the original owner, no big deal, regardless of what it actually was. . My advice is to enjoy eating the steaks you cooked, and have a nice glass of red. Time enough to inspect it tomorrow and then if need be send Bruce a couple pics. 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    Carolina Q said:
    Do you have a cast iron grid? Those are notorious for cracking. And you can hear them when they crack. Don't ask me how I know.

    But i's probably ceramic. Warranty...
    Michael, as new as his egg is I believe even a BGE brand cast iron is warranted, but since he did a visual inspection a broken grid should have been obvious to him. Just the same I've never understood why BGE hasn't dropped that cast iron grid design with the circular outer ring! When the inner grid gets hot - especially at red hot searing temperatures - cast iron, which is weak anyway expands and the expansion is confined to that colder outer ring and that stress has to be relieved somehow and POP goes the Weasel (BGE cast iron grate)
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • tenpenny_05
    tenpenny_05 Posts: 286
    Don't tell anybody, but this is my Kamado Joe, not an egg. You guys are just a good wealth of knowledge.
    After it cooled I took it all apart and inspected all the pieces and didn't see anything. I bought it used so hopefully I'm in the clear.
    Kansas City, Kansas
    Second hand Medium BGE, Second hand Black Kamado Joe Classic, Second hand Weber Kettle, Second hand Weber Smokey Mountain
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,733
    tenpenny_05 said:
    Don't tell anybody, but this is my Kamado Joe, not an egg. 
    Well now you're definitely in trouble!
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    It could have just been a piece of lump popping. 

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

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,368
    tenpenny_05 said:
    Standing over the grill with the lid open I heard a loud ceramic sounding pop noise. 
    Exact same thing happened to me two months ago or so.
     
    I've been on painkillers ever since.  

    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

                  - Mark Twain 

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,368
    edited May 2017

    RRP said:
    I've never understood why BGE hasn't dropped that cast iron grid design with the circular outer ring! When the inner grid gets hot - especially at red hot searing temperatures - cast iron, which is weak anyway expands and the expansion is confined to that colder outer ring and that stress has to be relieved somehow and POP goes the Weasel (BGE cast iron grate)
    Early cast-iron wheels, both for vehicles and machinery wheels, were often formed in an "S" shape to relieve just that type of thermal stress.

    As long as you're grilling with your Egg closed, however, I wonder if that type of stress even occurs; the Egg is supposed to keep heat steady throughout.  

    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

                  - Mark Twain 

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    Botch said:

    RRP said:
    I've never understood why BGE hasn't dropped that cast iron grid design with the circular outer ring! When the inner grid gets hot - especially at red hot searing temperatures - cast iron, which is weak anyway expands and the expansion is confined to that colder outer ring and that stress has to be relieved somehow and POP goes the Weasel (BGE cast iron grate)
    Early cast-iron wheels, both for vehicles and machinery wheels, were often formed in an "S" shape to relieve just that type of thermal stress.

    As long as you're grilling with your Egg closed, however, I wonder if that type of stress even occurs; the Egg is supposed to keep heat steady throughout.  
    I hear you, but when I replied I had assumed he was using a BGE and BGE brand cast iron grate. Plus when he said he was searing and had the dome open and was at 650 then his grate temperature just might have been higher than 650. 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • FatTrout
    FatTrout Posts: 23
    edited May 2017
    tenpenny_05 said:
    Don't tell anybody, but this is my Kamado Joe, not an egg. You guys are just a good wealth of knowledge.
    After it cooled I took it all apart and inspected all the pieces and didn't see anything. I bought it used so hopefully I'm in the clear.
    Well then, a fox in the hen house, so to speak. Seriously, from the perspective of the BGE warranty. If you cracked a 'bought used' BGE firebox or any other ceramic part and experienced a crack in the ceramic part; when you bought a replacement from BGE that replacement would carry a warranty with, you, as the original owner. For kettles, domes, fire-boxes the warranty is life time. Maybe KJ has a similar program. worth a look, I'm thinking. You will have to stand the cost this time if it ends up being damaged but next time could be a different story. 
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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    Doesn't KJ warranty not matter if you are the original owner? I believe I read that somewhere before.
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  • jtcBoynton
    jtcBoynton Posts: 2,814
    Lit said:
    Doesn't KJ warranty not matter if you are the original owner? I believe I read that somewhere before.
    The folks at KJ say: "Kamado Joe warrants that all ceramic parts used in this Kamado Joe grill and smoker are free of defects in material and workmanship for as long as the original purchaser owns the grill."
    Southeast Florida - LBGE
    In cooking, often we implement steps for which we have no explanations other than ‘that’s what everybody else does’ or ‘that’s what I have been told.’  Dare to think for yourself.
     
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