Excited - I won a bge.

13 years ago

First package of parts arrived today. Yippy!!! I thought about buying one this summer. I decided that it was too expensive and it would overlap with my bread oven. Then I noticed the local grocery store had been having a contest all summer. The next to last day I entered and shanghaied my family too. The contest was so confusing that even thought said that I won I didn't expect much. Now I need to figure out where to put a big heavy fragile piece for the Maine winter.

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dedtired
13 years ago
A what??
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
13 years ago
BGE = Big Green Egg = $$$$$$$$$$$

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I wanted to add something here. I just recently ordered three A. tomentosa vines to plant in a new bed. I got these vines from Pine Ridge Gardens in Arkansas, which is where I got the Georgia asters. Mary Ann lists Georgia asters as A. grandiflorus, but other sites call them A. georgiana or something like that. Many sites use the new term, Symphyotrichum instead of Aster, which has further confused the issue, which was already confused enough, because there are so many types of asters, including many that are probably local hybrids. So, my point is, I'm not sure my asters are really Georgia asters. Whatever they are, the pearl crescents like them, though, and that's what counts! The eggs hadn't hatched as of yesterday, but I think I'll finish out the 'cage' today. Sherry
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When you first posted this I was still in the middle of making my crosses. Today I'm about 3/4 of the way through collecting pods. I have around 500 seeds collected so far and still quite a number of pods out there. 'Brown Witch' x 'Milk Chocolate' turned out to be a bust. I had lots of pods set but both plants aborted all of their pods early. I tried other pollen too and they did the same thing. I did get one to mature on BW x MC that gave me 3 seeds. I guess the plants just need to settle in better. It is a real mystery why they aborted. I asked Margo and she said that BW did not come out of MC so they should not be THAT closely related to cause a self-pollination block and BW is very pod fertile for her. 'Desperado Love' was a great parent both ways. DL x 'Cleopatra's Jewel' gave me 45 seeds in 4 pods. Looking forward to seeing those babies. 'Wild Horses' was another fantastic parent both ways. And I was successful using frozen pollen from this one (yippee, another process I must have done right). I have a pod on 'Sear's Tower' from it that I'm anxious to see ripen before frost. I also have some WH crossed with 'Cleopatra's Jewel' that should be as interesting as DL x CJ. My best diploid pod setter was of course (Murphy's Law) that NOID yellow though I thing Fairy Tale Pink will surpass it next year when FTP is settled & has more flowers. The NOID looks exactly like 'Mary Todd', even has her fragrance, but it only accepted diploid pollen so I'm calling it a dip. I started out just trying to see which ploidy this plant was to help with ID but then look at how it set! It does have some nice branching & bud count so I guess that's fine to have so many babies from it. Some of the pods were really full of seed. NOID 'Yel' x 'Royal Kaleidoscope' 52 seeds in 3 pods. NOID 'Yel' x 'Persian Pattern' 40 seeds in 2 pods NOID 'Yel' x 'Brown Witch' 15 seeds in 1 pod NOID 'Yel' x 'Milk Chocolate' 45 seeds in 2 pods Lots of others but these are what I'm most excited about.
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Thanks so much for taking a look at my wins! :) I was so excited when she told me I won all my bids and the price I got them at. I can totally see this place becoming one of my weekly haunts! I didn't get down there today with the girls, they are really keeping me hopping with all the activies they are doing this summer. We're going to stop in tomorrow though after tennis to see what else they put out.
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Those bold colors are going to be great with the stainless counters!! I just got my SS counter and it's sssssooooo coollllll! Yo're going to love it!
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agmss15
Original Author
13 years ago
Exactly! It is a medium big green egg though... Sorry didn't mean to be mysterious
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
13 years ago
BGE = Big Green Egg = $$$$$$$$$$ = Lots of great cooking/grilling/smoking = neighborhood parties!!!

dcarch
dedtired
13 years ago
Ah, I got it now. Congrats on your Medium Big Green Egg.
foodonastump
13 years ago
JEALOUS!!!
User
13 years ago
Wow, what a great prize. Can't wait to see what you cook.

~Ann
bcskye
13 years ago
Congrats on winning such a great prize!

Madonna
John Liu
13 years ago
Wow, that is a great thing to win.
annie1992
13 years ago
Congratulations, Elery was looking at one and decided it was just too expensive. People who have one love it, so I'll be watching to see what you make.

Annie
Lars
13 years ago
Congratulations!! You will love it! Kevin and I bought one last April (see photo) and have been using it a lot. It has an easy to read thermometer on the top that is very helpful. It will get over 600 degrees and maintain heat very well, and so you can use it as a pizza oven, although you already have that. I wanted a pizza oven but decided on this instead. We have multiple screens so that we can have a pizza party, but that hasn't happened yet. We also bought the pizza stone accessory, and it is bigger than the one I have in the kitchen.

Since they are on wheels, you can easily roll yours into the garage for the winter. I hadn't thought about winterizing mine, but since you mentioned it, I moved the iron top to the garage, along with the charcoal chimney. I wonder if I should store the thermometer inside, since we are just now beginning our rainy season. I don't think we've had any rain since mid-April when we bought it, and so I forgot to think about that.

Thanks for the reminder, and I hope you enjoy your BGE as much as we do! BTW, I knew what BGE meant instantly!!

Lars
agmss15
Original Author
13 years ago
My dog has a new little friend so why not my bread oven.... Although my choice of location had more to do with taking advantage of existing if limited space undercover...
Lars
13 years ago
Here is your photo rotated - it showed up sideways when I saw it.

I especially like your oven, although I did not really recognized it until I rotated the photo. Did you build the table just for the BGE or did you win the table also? It looks very practical.

What kind of wood do you use in the oven? We only use mesquite wood, and Kevin soaks it first so that it will smoke more, but once it's dried it, it burns very hot. We roasted more chilies last week-end, and I make more sauce for the habanero sauce. I used only mild chilies because the sauce needed to be thinned out a bit.

Lars
agmss15
Original Author
13 years ago
Lars - Thanks for editing the photo. It is common to heat with wood here. My firewood is a mix of ash maple cherry birch etc....
I do also make a lot of scraps working in the shop. I will chop up some pieces of cherry and maple to try in the egg. I also get scraps of kiln dried birch from a local business that makes knobs.... The little chunks start easily, burn hot but fast. Good for getting things going. I hope to try making your hot sauce tomorrow.
arley_gw
13 years ago
If you're interested in Indian cuisine, I have been told that the BGE makes a very good substitute for a tandoor. You could make fairly authentic tandoori chicken, for example. Google 'big green egg tandoor' and you'll get lots of hits. Bon Appetit!

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