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travails with my Big Green Egg


It has now been a week since I accepted delivery of my jolly green grenade. I have to confess I was pretty excited about its arrival, it's a substitute for the Pizza oven that I was not allowed to have on the grounds of of 'thats ridiculous' 'you'll never use it' and ' yeah, right, you're going to take a leg of lamb down the bottom of the garden to cook it!'
7 days living with the BGE and I think I might of had a lucky escape and ended up with a far, far better thing.
However this does not mean my brief affair has been without its setbacks.
So far I have overcooked a leg of lamb, but I blame the fact that it was my first attempt, that the leg was part boned and that I was part sloshed.
I have also cooked a Chicken that met its egg standing up and it was absolutely delicious, very moist and just little bit smoky.



I wrote off a whole shoulder of pork that I tried to slow roast overnight because I roasted it so slow that the coals went out and as I was having my Mother for lunch I thought better of giving her the pork and a dose of trichinosis. We did however eat the crackling because we just couldn't resist it.

Then I cooked fabulous Pizzas but apparently accompanied them with my usual outpouring of expletives related to the lack of 'slidy-ness' of the pizzas on my peel (chopping board actually, although of course I do have a peel on order) The combination of the very high temperatures in the egg and the baking stone gave them that lovely crispy base and slightly blackened and bubbly crust.

and finally I did a ginormous Fiorentina steak ... more of which next




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