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I went out and used some Trust Fund Money and bought one of those Big Green Egg BBQ thingys...

I got it home and put the thingy together, put the requiset amount of wadded up newspaper in the bottom with Lump Charcoal on top. Lit the fire and in 10 minutes the temp gauge was treading 700*...so far so good....

Got a nice 9 pound Port Butt Roast, put the dry rub on it, put it on a roasting rack with drip pan full of Sherry and on it went at 7:30 PM.


Immediately I closed the dampers down and the temp dropped to 220*...I said Ok and let the Pork Roast cook...It held that temperature for hours and hours. Somepalce in there I fell asleep on the Lazyboy...and at 3:30 AM I awoke went out to check my Roast out and the temp had dropped to 150*, with the internal temp gauge in the roast reading 120*. I took the roast off and stirred the coals and after about 1/2 an hour the gauge was reading 350*. I went to bed somewhere in there and when I awoke at 9:30 I went out and noticed the temp had dropped again to 150*, this time because most of the coals had been burned. The internal temp in the roast was about 140*. So I took the dam Roast and shoved in the oven at 325*. When I returned from a visti to the Dentist at 12:30 PM the roast had finaly cooked.

I have to say that the Roast tasted dam good....but 17 hours to cook a Pork Roast is WAY TOO LONG......


I realize my mistake was to have too low of a temperature to begin with...next time it's going to be 325* all the way...and then I'll tell you all whether or not the dam thing works gud or not...

So far as I can see I like the Big Green Egg and am anxious to try it again....It does use a small amount of coal and it's uses can be quiet extensivre...