Saturday, March 13, 2010

Big Green Egg






This is the one year anniversary of my entrance to the world of Big Green Egg (BGE). BGE is a outdoor grill based on a concept called Kamado technology. Kamado is a style of stoves developed by ancient Japanese people in Edo era (about 450 years ago), and I don't know how they knew it then, but the dome shaped hood reflects and concentrates heat on the food in a way that allow meat to retain its moisture while being grilled to perfection. The physics of it is enhanced by the material that the thing is made out of. Believe it or not, BEG is made from the same material that covers the underside of the space shuttle. You can fire this thing up in 5 minutes, and it will gladly crank itself up to 650 degrees where a piece of steak can be grilled to medium rare in about 4 minutes flat. If I may, this is the Pentax of outdoor grilling. There are forums and blogs all over the net, and there is a cult following that reminds you of the deadheads in the 80's and 90's. If Jerry Garcia was alive today, I know he would be grilling on this thing.

This is my honey grilling a rack of baby back ribs. How gruesome.

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