Hot hot heat...needed

make sure the firebox opening is facing the front draft door. Also be sure you cleaned behind the firebox. Take it out, clean the holes and all the ash behind it.

I would put new lump in the egg, light it in 2 or 3 spots, leave the dome open to get the fire good and establiseh with all the drafts open. Once the coals are lit good, close the dome with the daisy wheel completely open. It should be going in no time.

If this a new problem, and everything else is good, you may have bought a bad bag of lump. I had a bag I used the same day I bought it, and it would not get up to temp. It did not appear wet, but my guess is that it had a lot of moisture in it.

The heat in an egg is created by fuel and air. Moisture in the lump could be a consideration and something you will have to determine.

I am not a huge believer in the fire box opening having to be exactly lined up with the lower vent. Free air entering the lower vent will flow into the heat draw.

The draw is in two places. Throught the fire box openings and outside the fire box up on the outside of the fire ring. That outside fire box/fire ring air does not feed the lump directly.

Have enough lump in the fire box, at least up to the top of the fire box and even higher if you find that necessary. Make sure your fire grate holes are free of dust and or smaller chunks of lump. Have some bigger size lump in the lump stack.

Light the egg in 3 or 4 places and just a little under the surface of the lump.

Leave the bottom vent & screen wide open (don't leave the egg during this time), top vent uncovered. Leave the dome open until the lump has a good light 5 minutes or so.

As the open flame begins to die down close the dome leaving vents open. As long as there is flame inside the egg you will have a high spike temperature. As the open flame dies out the dome temp will go lower. As the lump heat develops your temp will begin to climb again.

You should see a steady climb in temp and soon should see a the temperature spiking. Before the fast spike your dome temp should be in the 400° - 500° range.

This spiking is when the air flow allows the lump to flame up once again - you will be quickly heading to well above 700° - that high temp is the actual flame once again. You should see the blue flame coming out of the dome of the egg.

Vents should have been restricted before this stage in most cases.

If you are looking for quick lighting and higher temperatures block the free air movement on the outside of the firebox and fire ring. One should easily be able to light and egg and get to 400 - 500 degrees stable within 10 to 12 minutes. 700° stable within 15 minutes.

This is accomplished by forcing all incoming air into the firebox and the only exit is through the lump.

Extremely fast lighting and high temperature stabilization can also be accomplished by using a weed burner to light.

GG

I new to the Egg, what is a weed burner? Thanks.

Thank you very much

:laugh: :laugh: Lazy is one word I'm sure is never used to describe you. I get tired just looking at your cooks I feel as old as Tim.

did not have time to read all the replies so disregard this if needed , BUT, did you remove the fire box and remove all the ash and lump that fell thru the little holes .. that seems to be the most common problem with not reaching high temps .

Just wondering where you're located...I drive right through the new Pearl Brewery renovation 5 times a week. Gonna be nice. I used to drink nothing but Pearl Light...Long time ago,

Mike