I was looking through the classifieds at work (on break of course
) and saw a large big green egg with table for $450. So I called and left a message, didn't hear anything and figured it was sold.
A couple days later he calls and says he just got into town and asked it I was still interested. He took $400 and gave me an electric starter, ash scraper tool, tongs, spatula, and 3/4 of a bag of BGE lump. The table he custom built and is solid as a tank. He's a retired Deere employee and painted it John Deere Green. On the way home with the Egg I got some John Deere Yellow spray paint and painted the rims yellow on the dolly tires on one end. My dad calls it "The Plowboy"
He also is retired from John Deere and says, "You should paint on the front 'Nothing Runs Like a Egg'" I told him that was goin' too far.
The egg is probably a mid 90s with the yellow lid release handle and is in excellent shape. There are two small glazing chips and nothing was cracked. I didn't know much about eggs but I looked it over for cracks. I checked the price on a new egg around here and they sell for $700. A new table for an egg is $400. While I was there I grabbed a plate setter for indirect cooking and pizzas. I cant wait to try some pizza!
I have done two cooks already. The first I did 4 ribeyes and got it up to 700. The second I tried a 5lb slab of untrimmed spares( I was in a hurry and they were $2 a lb) and it held a solid temp of 250 at the dome with the vents just cracked a little, about 1/8"-1/4" for seven hours. This is my first time using lump and I like the fact that there is hardly any ash in the bottom of the egg after two cooks.
Their website doesn't even compare to this one! Its not very user friendly and the terminology (Trolls, Mothership, etc) in my opinion is very lame.
