New BBQ required...Weber or Ceramic "egg"???

[anonymous-user]

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[calibrax]

Weber, simply because it's brilliant. Paying "twice as much" will not give you "twice as good".

[Sway]

To be fair, Calibrax has a point, but in this case I think I'd go for the kamado if you can live with a smaller grill.

Having the ceramic walls means you can go very low in temps for hours at a rock solid temperature. Then you canwhack some wood in and get stupidly high temps for lpizza /steak.

Doesn't seem to come with much in the way of accessories to allow indirect, but the large Big Green Egg stuff should fit, going g by comments on line the vision is a quarter of an inch bigger in diameter than the BGE.

Dream BBQ for me is the XL Primo oval ceramic, but I'd have bought this instead of my 21" weber is I'd have known about it.

[Sway]

Toxic, is the 67cm at Costco ceramic?

If so, that may be the driver to actually sign up and pop down to the new South Coast store...

Should probably finish garden though, as the outdoor kitchen is the last item on the list, and there's no way I can hide such a thing!

[Conian]

I saw one of these yesterday, was very impressed with it!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cadac-Eazi-Chef-Skottel-...

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The cooking area on the ceramics is quite small, which could be annoying if you are used to having plenty of space

[Conian]

It is, and I know it's not a BBQ, but damn it's a good bit of kit so I thought I'd throw it in the mix

[Mk1UTRich]

Can't comment on the ceramic egg, but having received a Weber One Touch Premium as a present yesterday from my lovely fiancee and using it for the first time, I would absolutely recommend one. Fantastic build quality, so easy to start with the chimney and superb food quality. Needless to say, it will be in use again later today, nice bit of sirloin and some chicken skewers with a glass or two of vino.

[Sway]

It seems with eggs, when setup for indirect, the whole grill is use able for that, as the deflector (or pizza stone!) reaches out to an inch or two of the edge.

As opposed to a weber, which is (the way I set it up) about 1/3 true direct, 1/3 indirect and 1/3 somewhere in between.

I think the perfect scenario is a small weber grill, purely for bangers/burgers/kebabs, and a large ceramic for indirect/pizza/steak.

[calibrax]

anonymous said:

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Easy... you can do indirect cooking, put the stuff you want to cook longer on the side away from the coals, and put your burgers directly over the heat.

Like this...

[calibrax]

anonymous said:

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Exactly. My Weber in that pic is only a 47cm.

[Mobile Chicane]

Cali - that appears to have gone out

Personally I'd get two - the large kettle for smoking, plus a little Smokey Joe for direct grilling / camping.

[calibrax]

Mobile Chicane said:

Cali - that appears to have gone out

Minion method... coals were arranged so that only a few of the coals were lit, and the rest would ignite over time

[Mobile Chicane]

anonymous said:

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I haven't been able to get it to work for indirect cooking but for grilling it's fine.