unstable egg

You need the feet anyway to have an air gap between the egg and paver. Without them, there is a good chance enough heat will get through the paver to damage the table. (been confirmed a few times)

It might but at the very least using the feet could help prevent a future problem of scorching or burning below the paver stone. I would put the feet in.

Seems like the pavers act as a heat conductor rather than a heat shield. I just have the feet (no paver) and haven't noticed any heat problems at all on my table. Yeah, I've only had the egg for 2 weeks, but I've had a runaway fire that pegged the thermometer and fried my gaskets.

I wonder if NASA has made their heat tiles available commercially.

Seems like the pavers act as a heat conductor rather than a heat shield.

It's a non-combustible substrate that doesn't so much reflect as protect. It will warm up from exposure to heat, but in the process is protecting the wood below.

When the Egg is in direct contact with the stone, the transfer of heat is much more efficient and therefore will transfer more heat to the combustible wood below. The result of which is charring over time.

air is a good insulator so putting some between the Egg and Stone makes all the difference.

Thanks. I guess I'll yield to the experienced folks. I'll get some firebricks today. Looks like you have about 14 bricks on yours (7 on each side)?

get a patio stone and use the feet , three quarters under the egg works too with the stone and you can then use the feet for other purposes.
this was my table, 2 inch thick pine, found the egg teatering in the hole in the morning during an overnight cook, this could have been real bad. see where the feet were.

one foot in the back, and two in the front, all equidistant. otherwise the egg will tip backward when you open the lid.

funny thing about three versus four legs (or 'points').

a three-legged chair will never wobble, because all feet always touch the ground. versus that odd leg on a four-legged chair that sometimes leaves you rocking slightly.

but a three-legged system is less stable. you can tilt more easily. bit of a trade off.

frank lloyd wright designed the stools at the Johnson Wax building to have three legs, saying they would forever be firmly touching the ground, not rocking, never needing adjusting. but a month after the opening, the secretaries were pitching over and falling off the chairs with startling regularity. johnson called wright, who said that the chair was designed to KEEP THE SECRETARIES ALERT. hahaha told them his intent was for them to keep both feet on the ground and back straight. said it would improve their productivity.

if you ever visit there, you'll see that over the years they have gradually replaced the much older chairs with newer replicas, as the old ones broke down with age. the new ones have (shhh) four legs.

those chairs at fallingwater are old italian chairs.17th century maybe? one of the few he didn;'t design

was a big wright fan (well, still am). about 20 years ago (man, that time flew by) i helped work on the zimmermann house in Manchester nh. great little house.

In the words of George W. Bush, "Mission Accomplished". 7 firebricks. Thanks for the advices.

I did learn something: Lifting a large BGE is not a one man job for a 66 year old.