Newspaper review of the BGE

Great article, Phil. Thanks for posting it!.

Now, get back to smokin' those baby backs! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Nice article Phil,honest and up front


GOOD EATS AND GOOD FRIENDS

DALE

Great column Phil, Welcome to the cult. Take some pictures of your cooks and post them.

Ross

nice read. not sure about the "heat shield tile" info though. i know that the BGE literature talks about "space age" ceramics, but that's more about the newer formulations of ceramic which can undergo thermal stresses (repeated high heat expansion, cold contraction) with cracking. I believe it's a refractory ceramic. i'm under the impression that Ed Fisher worked on the formulation over the years and developed it to replace the earthenware ceramic. ...but I might be wrong about that too.

the tiles on the shuttle have nothing to do with the egg, as far as i know.

would be a great tie in, but not sure there's much reality to it.

i only mention it because when skeptical consumers find that one claim is an exaggeration, they assume the others are too. the egg doesn't need any hyperbole, it's pretty damn good on it's own.

again, nice write up. not trying to nit-pick

i never heard the actual "heat shield" reference til now, but like you had read the "space age" line. probably a dealer or "enthusiastic user" claim. the few dealers i have dealt with all parroted stuff whih (in hind sight) shows they really don't use the egg as much as they should if they were really on-board. like that "one bag of charcoal lasts months" claim. bunkum. but probably as much because we cook way more than other folks do, too.

as for "space age", i just assumed it meant the refractory formula was a recent development.

if the shuttle were covered in BGE ceramic, that sucker would never leave the ground!

hahaha

that's pretty funny man.

i didn't remember it.
can't say i never heard it before though,now, can i?
hahahaha

i like your style

Mexico is kind of close to Houston

That was very well written. The only thing I would disagree with is the comment about how long the lump lasts. Your comment was: "a 20-pound bag can last several months".

You got it right about how long it lasts on an individual cook, but the life of a 20 pound bag is more about how often you use it and the kind of cooks.

I have used 120-130 pounds since the middle of May and I doubt I am in the top quartile of users! :laugh:

space age ceramic is a fair term. much of the technology we take for granted today did not exist before the space race...mercury and appollo misions gave us space age ceramic technology as they searched for heat resistant material for the reentry sheids. the kind of material used in the egg was not available prior ,, this search also led to the porcelain fused to precious metal "caps or crowns" and today all porcelain crowns. prior to this the crown were all gold or had acrylic facings.. todays high speed dental hand pieces run on greaseless bearing [air brearings @ 400,000 rpm] they were devleoped so the gyroscope could spin faster than with grease filled bearings which were too slow for the accuracy needed.. lastly the thin walled single use needles were born of mettalugical advances made during the space race..
bill

yep but i did not want any one left with the impression that this stuff is unrelated and plus i am in a crappy mood and just wanted to run on about something [i am good at that] hope you are well and prepping for 'the season" , i miss having kids that want toys [or at least ones i can afford]
bill