To get the Ceramic Cookers forum started...

[Merrick Bill]

Here's a picture of two pork butts on my Big Green Egg.



Where are all the other ceramic cooker owners?

Bill

[Phil LaMarche]

I've owned my BGE for 10 years and absolutely love to cook with it.  When I low and slow, I never open it until the proper IT and that's wonderful.  I love my 4 burner RED, especially for the instant cooking but fall back to the Egg for most things of size to be properly cooked.  Welcome.

Phil

[TMB]

I don't have a BGE to much $$$$$ for this cowboy, but give it time they will come to the site.

Welcome to the forum

[TwoPockets]

I don't have a BGE to much $$$$$ for this cowboy, but give it time they will come to the site.

Welcome to the forum

Tommy, check out this ceramic kamado grill that Academy Sports sells for $499. It is the same size as the large BGE and comes with a killer stand. Academy sold them in test markets last year and they were green,  but they had to change the color to brown because someone didn't want them to look too much like the BGE. We have been calling them the BBT. Academy has been selling a lot of them and been getting some pretty good feedback. Only one return from a guy who fired it up and opened all the vents and got it up over 800 degrees and was unhappy he could not get the temps back down to low and slow quick enough.

Ken

http://www.academy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_10051_248506_-1?Ntt=kamado&Ntk=All

[smoker pete]

I don't have a BGE to much $$$$$ for this cowboy, but give it time they will come to the site.

Welcome to the forum

Tommy, check out this ceramic kamado grill that Academy Sports sells for $499. It is the same size as the large BGE and comes with a killer stand. Academy sold them in test markets last year and they were green,  but they had to change the color to brown because someone didn't want them to look too much like the BGE. We have been calling them the BBT. Academy has been selling a lot of them and been getting some pretty good feedback. Only one return from a guy who fired it up and opened all the vents and got it up over 800 degrees and was unhappy he could not get the temps back down to low and slow quick enough.

Ken

http://www.academy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_10051_248506_-1?Ntt=kamado&Ntk=All

Looks like a nice unit Ken and I love that cart but I noticed that this product will not be sold to the socialist Republic of California residents!? 

Noticed at the web site that it makes a reference to Proposition 65 and that the product contains one or more chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm ... Does it contain asbestos for some of the insulation?  They do a lot of weird stuff here in CA 

[Ron D]

Smoke, It does not meet CA clean air regs for one, but then neither does the BGE. Or in other words it ain't no worse than other grills but we gonna outlaw it. Also if it contains more than 1% of lead in the ceramic it can not be sold in CA. Same as faucets and other plumbing items that can be sold anywhere else.

[Merrick Bill]

Just to keep this thread going -- 2 chickens!



Bill

[smoker pete]

Those are beautiful looking yardbirds Bill 

[Merrick Bill]

Thanks, Pete.

If you look closely, you'll notice that they're mounted on the vertical roasters legs up.  That's a trick I use to keep the breasts moist.  I don't know whether or not it works, but I like to think it does.

Bill

[squirtthecat]

That's brilliant!

What sized yardbirds, and what beer-can-ish thing are you using to mount them?

[hal4uk]

Went to visit one of my MILs (yes, I have TWO), that lives in Memphis recently...
Walked out on the back patio, and there sat a like new BGE.

I asked her about it...
"You know these are really NICE, don't you?"
She said she bought it because someone recommended it, but she doesn't know how to use it.
It's been cooked on once.

[smoker pete]

the taller one is my turkey stand (but because of the shape it's legs down)
the smaller ones are my chicken stands

Got me the same units Captain ... they're great to use.  I also have a smaller version of the turkey stand made for chickens.  I like using the chicken roasters cause they collect all those drippings.  In the old days I used to make a mean gravy with them there drippings!

If you look closely, you'll notice that they're mounted on the vertical roasters legs up.  That's a trick I use to keep the breasts moist.  I don't know whether or not it works, but I like to think it does.

Like Schultz on Hogan's Heroes used to say ... "Verrrry Innnteresssting!!" ... You got to be an old timer to remember Hogan's Heroes    I'll have to try mounting them birds upside down and see how they come out 

[Merrick Bill]

Pete,

I almost reported your post to the moderators as inappropriate.  On "Hogan's Heroes" Sgt. Schultz said, "I see NOTHING!"  It was Artie Johnson on "Laugh-In" who said, "Very Interesting."  "Hogan's Heroes" is my favorite show of all time.

Bill

[Merrick Bill]

Squirt,

I don't remember the size of the chickens in that picture.  However, you can see the stand they're sitting on in the picture.  It has a rectangular base and is designed for two chickens. 

Bill

[Merrick Bill]

CaptJack,

I'm very tempted to pick up one of those cookers.  I'm really intrigued by them.  Are you liking yours?

Bill