Re: Weber Smokey Mountain

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:09:51 -0400, "Joed" <jdblow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Denny Wheeler" <dennyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:43:16 -0400, "Joed" <jdblow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeremy" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are these things any good?

JJ



Yea, but a Big Green Egg is better.

And WAY spendier. And WAY heavier. And a much bigger PITA if one
needs to add fuel. That said--I'd like to have a BGE--but I'd like to
have a WSM with it.


It is spendier but my egg is going on ten years old. I replaced the $10
gasket twice and had a cracked fire box replaced under warranty when it was
three years old. If it cracks again today it gets replaced again for free
again. Anything ceramic is guarantied for life. It also is much heavier. But
that is what makes NOT having to add more fuel during a 20+ hour cook
possible.

Once I put some pork butts on 11 pm on Friday night. They came off around 4
pm on Saturday and started cooking chicken parts. Then burgers. Started
drinking and forgot to close the egg down and woke up Sunday morning to a
320 degree dome and some fuel left.

I can sear a steak over 1100 degree coals or do a low and slow in the middle
of the winter during a snow storm. I bake bread and do pizza, all on one
egg. Food seems to retain more moisture cooking with ceramics

But it is a lot more money, so it might not be for everyone.

The BGE (and Komodo Kamado, and other quality ceramic cookers--NOT
including the current Kamado brand), being way heavy, and way
valuable, is a problem for me, as I'm a renter, and don't really have
an indoor place to store it.

I know Dave Bugg has one of the Kamados that was made when the company
produced quality stuff. I think he's got at least two other cookers
as well. (meaning for his private use, not any he may use for
catering, if he still does any of that now he's a trucker) He's said
good things about it. Your experience with the BGE echos what I've
read from others.

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