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My New Large BGE
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Tarpon65
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I have been fighting off buying my first BGE for over a year as I own a smoker, a 22" Weber Kettle, and a gasser for quick weeknight cooks. Finally purchased a large this morning. Didn't take too long to put together by myself and the photos show it in its final resting place beside my smoker, with the Weber hiding in the background. First cook tonight will be a London Broil that has been marinating in teriyaki sauce. May go ahead and plan to do a pork butt tomorrow night for a Sunday dinner.
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Tarpon65,
They are so pretty when they are new. You will love the way pulled pork comes out. Welcome.
SteveSteve
Caledon, ON
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Congrats on the new egg. You are going to love cooking on it; you'll be surprised how easy it is to cook on.
Here is a picture of what I'm cooking on my large right now.
Here's to the new egg and good cookin.
Ed -
That's alot of meat there. Good luck and enjoy!
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congrats on your purchase and welcome to the forum, it is a thing of beauty :woohoo: .....you are gonna love it!
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Congrats on your new egg.
Nice location for it..What island are you on? :laugh: :cheer:
It will be interesting to see how long before you go back to that smoker and weber.I've had my egg a month and haven't touched my smoker or my Hasty-Bake since.LOL
Have fun with your new egg.
Jon -
Welcome aboard, Tarpon!
You're in for one heckuva ride.
The BGE makes cooking everything so much easier. Here's a few of the cooks I've pulled off since jumping in headfirst on Father's day:
Now go and get that thing smoking!
Joe -
ENJOY! You will be very glad you gave up the fight and might find the other grills on vacation or just used to store eggcessories
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Live in Sarasota. Kinda have a tropical jungle in my back yard. I would bet that I will not use any of my other cookers for a while as much as I love the 22" Kettle. I use it for 90% of my cooking meaning I use it probably 5 nights a week.
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I have the feeling that smoker will become a storage unit soon.Good luck w/ the cooks and don't blame the Egg if you have m ore friends hanging around.
GOOD EATS AND GOOD FRIENDS
DALE -
Everything looks great. I've got a prime rib in the freezer that may have to be pulled out here pretty soon. I don't want to try it yet until I get comfortable controlling the temps.
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Congrats I just started to use mine and really like iyt. Have done about 12-15 hours low temp cooks. Figure it should be ready for a high temp cook soon- steaks
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Welcome to the forum and congratulations.
Great looking home for the new egg.
GG -
Thanks. You'll get the hang of it in no time flat.
Grandpas Grub was gracious enough to post a nice quickie visual guide for temperatures at:
http://www.eggheadforum.com/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=view&id=670088&catid=1#
It's a great place to start. Calibrate you dome thermometer and away you go.
The prime rib I did was awesome. I can't remember who to credit for the method, but I started it at 500 degrees at the dome.
Rubbed with kosher salt, black pepper and Famous Dave's Rib Rub (or any of your favorites). Tied fresh rosemary sprigs in between the bones and the roast.
Roast on at 500 for three minutes and closed down the top vent until the temp came down to 325 then opened the daisy wheel a bit to stabilize.
Cooked to an internal temp of 125 and rested under foil tent for 15 or 20 minutes. Voila! Perfect medium rare that tasted better than anything I've ever had at a restaurant and the roast was on sale at the local butcher for $6.99/Lb - Choice Grade.
Have fun.
Joe -
Welcome aboard Tarpon. You are in for one helluva ride. These things are awesome. It's going to be a little more touchy than that drum smoker but it will hold temps forever. I cooked a 10 pound butt two days ago and it went about 17 hours. I filled it half way up to the fire ring with lump and after the cook I had almost half left.
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Congrats and welcome to the forum.
Might as well chunk the offset, unless you plan on doing 12 butts at once. Keep the kettle for corn, potato's and such while your steaks are on the Egg, at least until you get Egg no.2. Then you can chunk it too. I held onto my gasser for 6 months after getting Egg, and kettle for a year. Should have just chunked them the day I got the first Egg.
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Nice! I love your backyard - mine is wet with rain right now, and I expect it will be covered in snow for a good part of the winter.
The 22 inch Weber Kettle is great. I still get good use from mine out at the cottage, but the Egg is so much easier to use (and more enjoyable). I had my Weber in my yard near my Egg where it sat unused for 2 years until I moved it to the cottage. It's pretty tough to bring yourself to fire up another cooker with an Egg in the yard (unless it's another Egg).
You are going to love it!
Mark -
Chunk the offset??? I guess you don't have a storage problem :laugh: I might go out and buy one just for that reason :P :P :P
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I've been told that "If you're looking, you're not cooking."
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The London Broil came out great. Wife got on the phone for over an hour after I lit the charcoal, so I played with the air flow to see how a slight damper movements would affect the temp. Looking forward to cooking on it tomorrow night, although I'm not positive what I will be cooking.
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Great lookin' setting for eggin'. I imagine you'll get some good natured guff for the other hardware. :laugh:
Welcome to the cult!
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