Big Green Egg: A Few Useful Ideas To Make Cooking With Your Big Green Egg Grill More Pleasing

The Big Green Egg is the most flexible grill available and can be used for smoking, grilling or baking. The Egg has incredible temp. control, that allows you to cook almost anything on it. The thick ceramic walls and draft doors permit you to sear steaks at very high temperatures (up to 750 degrees) or slow cook ribs at a low temp. of 200 to 250 degrees. Or if you are craving pizza or bread, the Big Green Egg bakes better than a brick oven. Here are some ideas to make cooking with your Big Green Egg grill even more pleasing:

Grilling

Most people are familiar with grilling, but in case, grilling refers to cooking the food straightly over coals at a moderate to high temperature. The Big Green Egg can go up to 750F for searing steaks, or you can decrease the heat for slow cooking . Use the adjustable dampers at the bottom of the Egg along with the daisy wheel at the top for super temp. control for your favorite grilling recipe.

Smoking

When it relates to smoking, the Egg's thick ceramic walls are perfect insulation for cooking at long, low temperatures needed to tenderize & smoke meats. While setting up your EGG for smoking, layer lump (wood) charcoal with your favorite wood smoking chips (we like grape). Add more charcoal, then extra wood chips; repeat until the firebox is full. You can use either natural fire starters or an electrical lighter to start the charcoal (never use lighter fluid!). You are prepared to start cooking once the temp. has reached 250 degrees. One of the wonderful things about the Egg is that with the ceramic material and the fact that you always cook with the lid down, you can let your grill cook for very long time periods (even over-night) without worrying about flare-ups or overcooking your food. Consider adding the plate setter or the rib rack to make your smoking experience even nicer.

Baking

The Big Green Egg is well known for its versatility and that is most evident when baking breads, dessert or pizza in your Egg. You can turn your Egg into fire brick oven simply by adding a plate setter and baking stone (one of my favorite big Green Egg accessories). Eggheads love baking pizzas in their grills, thus you can find many pizza recipes at the Egghead forum. Once you've tried a brick oven pizza in your Egg, believe me, you will never order pizza again!

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