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How Do You Clean The Inside Walls Of Your Egg?

wolfetone
wolfetone Posts: 87
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Did my Annual on the Egg last night, vac'd it all out etc, the walls are a bit tarred up from all the burns on the Egg.

Just wondering how do you clean the walls on your egg? Thats if you even bother?.....Or do a High Heat 'Oven Clean' burn on it to burn it off.....just wondering at what safe temp you can burn off the junk
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Light a fire, let er rip. I don’t go much over 550-600 (I found that’s where it starts to burn out the goo) but some people open it all the way up and let it wrap the thermo around. I’m doing that as we speak before throwing the bird on in a bit (we are eating later today)

    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • Woodchunk
    Woodchunk Posts: 911
    Foil ball works great
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Just bake a 6-700° pizza from time to time.

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

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • wolfetone
    wolfetone Posts: 87
    Yeh I am just wondering where the GOO burns off, someones obviously got the same issue.....I just havent done any high temps in a while.....
    Is there a temp and duration or basically let her rip 600+ for 20 mins...
    Tiocfaidh!
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    wolfetone said:
    Yeh I am just wondering where the GOO burns off, someones obviously got the same issue.....I just havent done any high temps in a while.....
    Is there a temp and duration or basically let her rip 600+ for 20 mins...
    Most of the time for me it’s the end of a cook where I’ll open it up and let it burn the rest of the lump.
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    wolfetone said:
    Yeh I am just wondering where the GOO burns off, someones obviously got the same issue.....I just havent done any high temps in a while.....
    Is there a temp and duration or basically let her rip 600+ for 20 mins...
    600 and walk away for a while (or until the the white smoke clears up). Could take a couple of hours or less depending on how much buildup you have. 
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,788
    I guess if the stuff was falling on the food I would do something about it but not the case (or I fail to recognize).  FWIW-
    Happy Thanksgiving. 
    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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  • RiverBBQ
    RiverBBQ Posts: 197
    Burn baby burn. Pizza is great for clean burn, might smoke the felt gasket but it will be clean
    You can’t get to Loganville, Ga from anywhere. You have to start somewhere else
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  • EggbertGreenII
    EggbertGreenII Posts: 253
    Just remember to put a lining of aluminum foil on the gasket before any real high burns. Last one I did caused the gasket to fuse together and I had a hard time getting the Egg open again.
    Tampa Bay, Florida
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  • hardwoodcooker
    hardwoodcooker Posts: 18
    Brush off the inside with a stiff brush the rest is all flavor
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  • wolfetone
    wolfetone Posts: 87
    So ive had a burn going of 650-850F for about an hour now, I opened the egg and there was still 'skin' of soot in there, so I used a wire brush and closed her back up, there was some black goo on the walls on fire which was nice to see, and the metal lid was full of 'tar/goo' so I put it inside the grill to burn off any crap left on it....
    More white smoke than when the Pope was announced lol
    Tiocfaidh!
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  • RiverBBQ
    RiverBBQ Posts: 197
    Mine purges white stinky smoke until it’s clean. Once ended up with a almost new looking firebox, whiter than had been in a year.
    You can’t get to Loganville, Ga from anywhere. You have to start somewhere else
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  • GregW
    GregW Posts: 2,678
    I'm glad you brought this up. I will add wall cleaning to the clean burn I've been meaning to do for the last 20 years.
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  • unoriginalusername
    unoriginalusername Posts: 1,146
    hardwoodcooker said:
    Brush off the inside with a stiff brush the rest is all flavor
    This 
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  • Jstroke
    Jstroke Posts: 2,605
    buzd504 said:
    Clean the walls?  Crazy talk.
    Amen
    Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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