Any grillers here?

My wife had some heavy felt laying around which I used. The outside of the egg never gets too hot (even when interior is 600 degrees). The felt is there just to keep the BGE from banging into the jagged sides of the tile around the hole when I wheel the thing around. The felt is gone now and infact not necessary at all.

Btw that table was supposed to be a proto-type. I had some old deck wood in the side yard which I used to throw together the table (after ripping the 2x4s down to 1x4s). But it came out so light and strong (after screwing and clueing) that I decided to use up all of the left over tiles from other jobs around the house and what you see is what I got.

I took the plans from this site and modified them for my purposes:

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/Tex-bge-table.pdf

Total cost for the table: $100-$200 most of which was the hardware for the wheels and a stash drawer I installed below the lower tiled deck (put on after this picture was taken).

Total time: who gives. It was fun. I guess about 10-15 hours not including drying time of thin set and glue.

If you use a Webber instead of a BGE, I would not worry about it being in contact with the tiles as they are fire proof as is the wonder board table top base they are thin setted to. See attached picture.

If you put wheels on yours, be sure that each wheel is rated at 200 lbs each. This way they don't get a flat spot on the bottom after sitting in one place for too long.

RSNovi said:

After having my smoker for awhile I am really starting to be disappointed in my gas grill for the lack of flavor. I have been researching pellet grills and would like to purchase a Cookshack PG500.

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One cheap trick i use is to put some wood chips inside an old beer can cut in half and place that under the grill grate ontop of the burner. Kicks out some nice surface smoke to give some flavor.

....but I know what you're saying.

I'm going the opposite direction... I received one of these maybe 7 years back as a gift and I absolutely love it.



I also have a charcoal Weber kettle, charcoal bullet smoker and giant home made electric/charcoal smoker but 95% of the time I go to the Weber Q. I bought the adapter hose and run it off a regular 20lb tank, which lasts pretty much forever. Obviously not tons of cooking area but if you are grilling for 2-4 it does the trick. Most of the time it's just me and the Ms. so it's more than enough. The grill grate spacing is close enough that nothing falls through, so no grill basket or skewering veggies, shrimp, etc. My absolute favorite thing to cook on it is a spatchcock chicken. I typically brine it the night before so it's thoroughly salted. Throw it on the grill for 25 minutes, flip it once, 25 minutes and it's done, perfect, every time.

If you think the BGE is the top end of the ceramic grill market check out http://komodokamado.com

Then come back to the BGEs and realize you won't exactly be too terribly extravagant for owning one