New egger logging on

Good day eggers.

Well I figure I might as well join after lurking for the last 4 months.

A coworker got one of these for Christmas last year and I had been interested in one about that long. I finally broke down and bought one the first of August. Got a medium and nest for $400.00 from a local appliance store. They had a clearance sale going on and the price was just 2 good. I did not get a chance to really use it until September after Labor Day.

Our first cook was a roasted chicken. We had done a lot of these on our old gas grill. So we decided to try something that we thought that we had a pretty good handle on. Boy were we mistaken. This chicken came out far better than the ones on the gas grill. The nice thing is that what we don’t eat from that whole bird ends up in enchiladas. We got the recipe from a friend who does turkeys on her Webber and then makes enchiladas from the leftovers.

Since that 1st chicken the egg gets used about twice a week. We have since done sour dough bread, that sausage and cheese bread in the owners manual, baby backs, briskets, pork chops, pork shoulder streaks, flat iron steaks, salmon, shrimp, ducks and pheasant that I have harvested hunting and more chickens. I don’t think there is much that cannot be cooked on the egg.

Since I already had 2 overnight cooks with the briskets, 1 at 9 hours and the other 11 hours we felt ready to try a pork shoulder. We had a friend, the turkey lady above, that was supposed to come over yesterday but the weather prevented that. So since it was thawed out we went ahead and decided to go for it any way. Put it on at 10:00 last night and it hit 200 deg at 10:00 this morning. From the Elder Ward recipe we had home made whole-wheat sourdough rolls with raspberry jelly from our neighbors with the hot pulled pork on them for brunch. My wife watched the egg till about 3:00 this morning before coming to bed then I got up at 8:00 to finish it off. She said the temp barely wavered from the setting of 250 deg dome. It was at 210 degrees when I checked it at 8:00 this morning. Opened up the bottom vent to get it back up to 250 dome. Still have about ½ a load of lump left in the egg. The whole time we were cooking this, the temps were between 10 and 20 degrees out side. Boy was that pork great. It will be our dinner tonight as well.

So we have a lot more to try and learn about this wonder full cooker. All of the success that wehave had are because of the information passed on by the others on this forum. Thank you all for being so helpful.

Mike