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The Mistakes We’ve Made
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When I was starting to make bread.
It looked good:
From the top anyway, flip it over and...
Where is the bottom of that boule on the right?
Oh yeah, that would be inextricably stuck in the Dutch Oven. Took a bit of cleaning and re-seasoning to get that right again.They/Them
Morgantown, PA
XL BGE - S BGE - KJ Jr - HB Legacy - BS Pizza Oven - 30" Firepit - King Kooker Fryer - PR72T - WSJ - BS 17" Griddle - XXL BGE - BS SS36" Griddle - 2 Burner Gasser - Pellet Smoker -
Something happened to my cake
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Scraped the toppings and practiced my disc golf backhand. Crust ended up against the fence. Left it there for a couple of months, the critters didn't even want a bite, as it was intact in Spring. This bucket page explains a lot. Lol
It looked great from the dome hole.
BrandonQuad Cities
"If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful." -
dmchicago said: lookJohnInCarolina said:Oh - one other thing I've done - gotten the temp on the Egg up so high the dome thermo wrapped around. All happened while I was inside. Came out and wondered how in the world the temp was still below 200F. Nope.Milton, GA
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Killit_and_Grillit said:Lenoir, N.C.
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piney said:Killit_and_Grillit said:
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I've made a couple of doozie mistakes over the years!!
First one was thinking the more smoke the better. Cooking chicken quarters for the in-laws and kept feeding wood in every time the smoke cleared. By the time they were done it was like eating an ashtray. Not only did I have heartburn for a week but the fridge smelled like the interior of the egg just from having the leftovers inside (even though they were in a ziplock freezer bag).
Second one was assuming that my knit BBQ glove had a slow enough heat transfer rate to remove a hot platesetter. Uhhhhh.....No! Blisters across 3 fingers.
There are plenty more but those are the top 2.
"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
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Just when I thought I was the only dummy, I'm pretty sure I've done a lot of these fails but my biggest is taking a very proud picture of a cook with a fork in the picture, I had no idea that was no no...Retired Navy, LBGE
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failing to learn from mistakes like burning store bought pizza dough at 700 degrees dome i take my store bought pizza dough to 1200 dome. you just needed to reroute the heat flow and add more thermal mass under the pie much more fun pointing out other folks failures.
used merlot in the tbird gravy once, makes for purple gravy, you wont live that down no matter how good it tastes. made bbq ribs from corned ribs once, only cook i could not eat, turned into a salt lick. then theres always that great idea to drink hard stuff late at night after drinking beers all day, cant say i only did that once, just glad i dont get hangovers. they look brutal.
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
Too many screw ups to count. Coming from a kettle, I was used to direct and indirect being in different hemispheres. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to cook poultry without ruining the skin or burning it.
XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA -
Plugged in electric charcoal starter. Then forgot about it.Richmond and Mathews County, VA. Large BGE, Weber gas, little Weber charcoal. Vintage ManGrates. Little reddish portable kamado that shall remain nameless here. Very Extremely Stable Genius.
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JethroVA said:Plugged in electric charcoal starter. Then forgot about it.fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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bgebrent said:Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
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fishlessman said:JethroVA said:Plugged in electric charcoal starter. Then forgot about it."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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DMW said:Mickey said:Nuff said:_________________________________________________Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!Large BGE 2006, Mini Max 2014, 36" Blackstone, Anova Sous Vide
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Forgot to burp the egg on more than one occasion.
First Brisket: 6lb flat, pulled at 160 so I wouldnt over cook it. Ever eat shoe leather?_________________________________________________Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!Large BGE 2006, Mini Max 2014, 36" Blackstone, Anova Sous Vide
Green Man GroupJohns Creek, Georgia -
Did a Travis brisket-started early in morning, by 8 PM still not done. Ate it anyway with the neighbor, who we promised some too-amazing the man still talks to me.
Second-baked Pretzels on the Egg-temp was 450. Didn't burp, think I didn't need to. Well-opened Egg, fire shot past me and narrowly missed setting me on fire. Lost some eyelashes and bit of hair but OK. Hubby looks outside, asks what happened and with a worried look asked "are the pretzels OK"? Amazing thing is I am still married to him.
Medium BGE in Cincinnati OH.
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3rd cook. Had never done beef short ribs, was clueless. Direct, raised, 350 for about 45 minutes. Looked good, smelled nice, shut down the Egg, and took the pieces inside. Shoe leather on bone. Went back to the Egg, saw that there were a few lumps still glowing. Took off the daisy, opened the bottom wide, put the ribs back on.
10 minutes later, went out to see a blue jet coming from the Egg. Freaked. Opened the Egg, not good, fire ball. Calmed down a bit, and got the daisy on, and the vent closed.
20 minutes later i was able to retrieve the 6 exquisite sticks of beef charcoal, each of which had maybe 1.5 bites of still edible meat in center.
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This was my first smoked pork butt & only 2nd cook on my egg - Crica 2007. Notice the already charred gasket, lack of a plate setter and the burned drippings in the drip pan. Can't recall too clearly but I don't recall it tasting all that bad - but holy smokes was I way off!
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 -
DoubleEgger said:Something happened to my cakePratt, KS
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My biggest mistake was waiting so long to get an egg. My second biggest mistake was jointing this forum and seeing all the cool **** I just had to spend extra money on!!!
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DoubleEgger said:Something happened to my cake_________________________________________________Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!Large BGE 2006, Mini Max 2014, 36" Blackstone, Anova Sous Vide
Green Man GroupJohns Creek, Georgia -
JRWhitee said:DoubleEgger said:Something happened to my cake"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Hntnhrd said:My biggest mistake was waiting so long to get an egg. My second biggest mistake was jointing this forum and seeing all the cool **** I just had to spend extra money on!!!Grand Rapids , Mi
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Did a clean burn once and forgot to check on it. BGE thermometer wrapped all the way back around to 300. Scared the absolute hell out of me. Had a set of traditional bge gaskets which basically fused. Nothing bad actually happened but Had to do some readjusting of the bands soon after. Followed it up with a Rutland gasket.Upstate SC
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I know I have already posted one, and then today I thought of another. That involved an early cook of a pork butt using my wife's deceased grandmother's cake pan as a drip pan. BTW her grandmother taught home ec for 40 years down in the bootheel of MO. Hard to even guess how many cakes were baked in it.
I have never been able to get that pan any cleaner than this with scouring, harsh chemicals or a few hours of elbow grease! Perhaps a random orbital sander might do the trick, but now all these years later that pan has been "out of sight - out of mind" for my wife.
Well, the nice thing that came from the disaster was since that sorry day on I ALWAYS wrap any drip pan and my PS with foil! -
I ran out of beer during a cook...twice.
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Have you tried an SOS pad after a hot soak @RRP? I’ve brought a few back from the grave over the years when nothing else would work.
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DoubleEgger said:Have you tried an SOS pad after a hot soak @RRP? I’ve brought a few back from the grave over the years when nothing else would work.
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RRP said:DoubleEgger said:Have you tried an SOS pad after a hot soak @RRP? I’ve brought a few back from the grave over the years when nothing else would work.
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