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Can my egg get too Hot?

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edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Has anybody ever had in problems cooking on really high temps. I was cooking a steak yesterday and it appears maybe the egg got too hot. Greenish brown condensation started showing up on the shell of the lid and a weird green brown smoke was coming off of it. Smoke had a weird smell so I ditched the steak...bummer! Has anybody ever had anything like that happen before. Suggestions?
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  • "Sparky"
    "Sparky" Posts: 6,024
    Did it look like this?

    013-23.jpg

    If so,you just need to use your egg more :lol: You can clean it out with a 400-500 degree burn for an hour or so.The stinky stuff probably came from mold inside your egg :sick: But,the high temp burn will fix this also ;)
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    that was just water in the ceramic exuding out the crazing. too bad about tossing the steak, it was fine.
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    listen to sparky and stike,, and also beware of the following:

    at nuke temps 1000° the bands may loosen and you run the risk of loosing the dome [fishlessman is the one to ask about this.

    if you have not done a cleaning burn in a while [600-700° for an hour or more and your egg is gunky,, do not do a nuke burn to clean ,,, i did not know to clean the egg, 2 years of build up, load of south american lump that smelled bad [ like plastic] what the hell lets open it up 900+° till it burnt out...jet blue flames out the top really cool.. gunk melted ran down killed gasket ran down the bottom of the egg turned to creosote 8 hours to fix it up.. every so often i just burn out the lump at 600 to 700

    bill
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  • alimog
    alimog Posts: 11
    How often should you do a cleaning burn?
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  • Unknown
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    yeah something like that. not as bad but similar. I'll try a cleaning burn. I guess maybe I should try and use it more!
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    depends how often you egg and what you cook,,, i do lots of meat and do not use the expensive stainless square thing in my kitchen except as a backdrop for pics,, every two weeks for me
    check your dome if there is thick gunk it is time.
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
    As far as hot hurting the egg. BGE says the ceramics are good to 1800°. However, you will be hard pressed to reach that level of heat.

    600° - 800° (900°) is not difficult to reach.

    The metal in and on the egg & gaskets may/will suffer at the higher temperatures. There has been some eplanation above.

    GG
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