What sites should I look at for more tips and tricks?

http://www.biggreenegg.com/recipes/

http://www.greeneggblog.com/

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/ceramic.htm

http://eggheadforum.com/ – “The” Green Egg forum

Big Green Egg BBQers on Facebook

Big Green Egg on Facebook

http://jesspryles.com/

http://www.meatchurch.com/blogs/recipes

http://www.nibblemethis.com/

http://barbecuebible.com/

 

Some favorite recipes:

 

http://barbecuebible.com/recipe/10-tips-big-green-egg/ and http://biggreenegg.com/getting-started/ – good info (don’t cook over 350 the first few times, don’t use lighter fluid, etc…)

What should I cook first?

Like a new car, you should not start out pushing the grill to the edge. Doing a steak at 600 or a 14 hour butt should probably wait until you have a few cooks under your belt.

You really want to be sure that you lean to control the temperature and understand how to set the grill up. As well, you want to make sure that the gasket seals to the grill and if you cook at high temps right away you have a good chance of not letting that happen.

A great first step is to throw some chicken on – if you are up to it, try wings or the like.

Personally, one of my favorite recipes is the wing recipe from the site I Am Josh Brown.

Cover the wings with your favorite rub and then put them on the grill using with indirect heat (using the convEGGtor) for about an hour and 15 minutes. Once you stop hearing the fat dripping onto the convEGGtor, take them off and dip them in sauce. Then throw them back on for another 15 minutes until they are about 165 degrees.

One good thing to try is to dust the wings lightly with baking powder or corn starch before throw them on the egg – this will give them a crisper skin. Play around with which works best for you.

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Chocolate Covered Bacon

This may be one of the best things we have done on the egg yet -BACON!  IT was an afterthought after we cooked beer can chicken.

we upped the temp on the egg to about 400. then grabbed our cast iron skillet and put it on the egg.  we let it heat up then we simply started cooking the back.

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once these cook for a bit you can fit more on.  you’ll also start getting a lot of grease so be careful not to burn yourself.

 

Eventually they bacon will be done and look like this…

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Next, melt some Hershey bars down and start to dip the bacon and you’re done!

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Green Egg 90 minute ribs

we just did this recipe for Labor day weekend and they turned out Great!

  • Start with good quality baby back ribs – one rack or two.  We put a rub on one and left the other plain.
  • Get the Green Egg to 350 degrees.  Here i had the daisy wheel off and the top wide open and the vent about an inch open.
  • put the ribs on meat side up for 30 minutes.
  • after 30 minutes flip and do them for another 30
  • Next pull the ribs off the egg and baste them in bar b q sauce
  • now wrap them in tin foil and put them back on the egg for 30 minutes – we only have them in for about another 10.
  • pull off when the rack bends at about 45 degrees.
  • Enjoy!