BGE: Dinner

I've been struggling with how to grill on my BGE. I know what it's capable of, but I lack the skill to help my Egg realize it's potential. I've destroyed a couple of butts and nuked a ridiculously expensive ribcap. This is not something I'm used to. Thanks to Groundhog66, and others on the forum, I'm finding my way around.

My first steaks on the Egg were cooked with the TREX method. I didn't care for that at all and posted here on the forum about my experience and asked for advice. You all came back quickly with the suggestion to reverse sear.

Without further adieu, here is tonight's dinner.

White trash alert: Please excuse the tater tots. Draeger's had crap potatoes today and the kids love them, so we figured "what the heck". I'd ask you to excuse the EZ-Up too, but it's raining so f**** it.

I't dark and POURING rain, so I setup my brand new EZ-Up:



Some prime filet from Draeger's and a little salt and pepper:



I cooked indirect with the platesetter and porcelain grate to 115F. The grate temp was 375. I pulled them at this point and stoked my lava:



I put the steaks on the lava:



Here's where I had to improvise a bit. With the lava, I learned the hard way on my rib cap that it's easy to burn, so I setup my iPhone as a timer and seared for 30s per turn, 60s per side. I pulled them prior to getting my lava ready at 115. After searing, I was at 118. Pretty close to where I want to be, but not quite there. I stuck them on the very edge of the grid and shut down all vents for about 60s.

I had my first near death Egg experience as I opened the lid and had a backdraft come at me and sear much of the hair off of my arm.



I ended up at 130F after a rest, which is perfect to my taste. It was like pure butter:



The butt goes on in 2 hours and ribs in 12. Looking forward to a nice long week of successful cooks.

Thanks for checking out my crazy good dinner.

Dave

Rubbed ribs and injected butt:

Haha! I've got a butt on the Egg right now and there's no way I'm throwing this one out. I've got StokerLog running on my PC and the Stoker HTML page on my phone.

So far everything is perfect. Starting a new thread on that cook.

Thanks for the continued advice guys. I appreciate every bit of it.


Dave

Thanks guys!

Yeah John, the weather is horrible. I don't even want to walk the 4 feet from the patio door to the EZ-Up. Speaking of EZ-Up, I went to Big-5 today in Dublin and picked it up. It was $150 and I asked for a "price match". She asked which price and I told her "your best price". She said "How's $99?"