The ceramic walls provide the best environment possible for a long and slow cook. You can turn even the least desirable cuts of meats into succulent and tender gourmet meals. This BBQ allows  the meat to cook in a controlled temperature environment for hours and hours and produce the best taste ever.

When you are planning a long slow cook, you want to ensure there is enough flavor for the long period of smoking. First, you need lump charcoal, then well soaked flavor wood chips, and then repeat this process until the firebox is full. The layered effect will allow for the meat to continuously be filled with flavor during the entire smoking process.  Some of the best cooking results will come from varying the type of wood chips for different meats.  For example, hickory based wood chips are better suited for cooking ribs, while maple wood chips tend to work well when smoking salmon.

You can use the electric igniter or natural fire starters to get your BGE going. Once the temperature reaches a steady 250 degrees, you are ready to throw on the meat.  The plate setter can be turned with its legs in an upward position.  The heat will be indirect but this will allow the smoke to swirl around the meat, giving a more robust flavor. You do not have to turn the food, even in extended cooking periods when you make use of the plate setter.  You can also use your drip pan and add apple juice, or even beer for added flavor while cooking.

You will want to bring your Big Green Egg Grill up to 750 degrees to sear your steaks perfectly. Then use the dampers to control the heat setting and ensure the steaks are cooked rare, medium, or well done.

Ideally you should grill with the lid closed on this barbeque.  You will not experience grease flare ups as you will on a conventional grill.  Enjoy perfectly grilled food every time - everything from  steaks to chicken will come out juicy and tender.

The design of the Big Green Egg Grill is sleek and attractive. You can find many different sizes to suit your needs, including:

• Mini
• Original
• Large
• XL

Depending on the amount of cooking space you need, one of these models should suit you fine. The manufacture’s reputation is very good,  customer service is great, and you will never have to worry about the warranty.

The Green Egg Grill is designed to be used in any weather condition, even use it all year round. The durability of the ceramic walls can withstand freezing temperatures to below 0 degrees and temperatures as high as 1800 degrees F. So when it’s freezing rain or snowing and you’re grilling outside your neighbors may look at you like you’re crazy, but the smell of the wonderful foods cooking will tempt them to come check it out a little closer.

The benefit to the ceramic walls is that the grill will contain and maintain the temperature you wish to cook for the entire cooking session. If you want to long slow cook some ribs at 200 degrees for several hours, you will not have to worry about the smoker losing the temperature setting.

The grill can be used for smoking meats to a tender and succulent state, but it’s also great for grilling various meats and vegetables. You may not realize that this grill will serve as a fire brick oven for you to create all kinds of gourmet foods. In fact, the local pizza parlor has nothing on this Big Green Grill. You can create pizza just like the best pizzeria in town, all from your backyard. What a twist that is on the backyard BBQ, now you can have backyard pizza parties.

The grill is designed to last and give you a lifetime of enjoyment. The investment is well worth it, and conventional grills cannot come close to matching the Green Egg. There are accessories that you can purchase as well, to make it even more functionable. The WOK is great for creating stir fry, rice or veggies for outdoor meals.

You will also find the fish grate handy for the summers best catches on the grill. Grilling fish has always been a messy event and sometimes not worth it as the heat can dry out the fish and flavors are lost. This BBQ will leave the fish tender and flavorful, and not leave a mess for you to clean up.

The Big Green Egg Grill is an awesome appliance that can replace almost every appliance in your kitchen for outdoor griling, and with one great product you can create a gourmet outdoor kitchen.

There is a wonderful ash pan specific to the Green Egg which was designed with a lot more thought than usually goes into other grill’s accessories. This thing is shaped like a short wide shovel, with a handy handle on its end for quick and safe removal. Stick it under the charcoal cooker and it will protect your patio from the falling ash.

Another of the Green Egg accessories is the so-called half-moon grids that are actually raised. This is manufactured so that you it takes up only half of the space of the whole cooking “surface”. (Hence the term half moon.) Seeing as it’s raised, it will leave the entire normal grill for cooking closer to the heat. Then you can just stick a few odds and ends up on the higher grid.

Green Egg Grill has developed a terrific (but not overwhelming) array of different shelves, and you can find custom tables for the green egg grill from a variety of sources. These attach to the outside of the EGG enabling a more versatile experience for the head chef. Slap some plates on a couple of the shelves and leave condiments or more meat to be cooked on the other shelf. You can buy as many or as few as you want, but I’d suggest getting two at least. They come in different sizes and capacities.

One of the most exquisite of the Green Egg Grill accessories is their three-tier rack and extender. This expands even more on the previous half-moon rack, because, well, it brings an extra level to the playing field. It actually increases your “cooking surface” by 200%. It’s a great way to save time and be more efficient, or to give different levels of heat to different food items, such as vegetables and steaks.

Then there’s the ash tool. (These guys have spared nothing.) It comes in small, medium, and large. It is not your ordinary ash remover and it will more successfully clean out all that gunk to clear up your Big Green Egg.

The temperature gauge is a must-have of this group of Green Egg accessories which will attach to the outside. This way you can get a better handle on your smoking, grilling, or even searing the meat as pleases you.

One of the most hilarious accessories has to be the digital probe thermometer. It looks like it should be in a doctor’s office! Anyway, you can monitor the temperature of meats inside your Green Egg Grill without even having to open it. A cord extends out to a temperature reading on the internal meat condition. Yes, these folks have thought of everything. They are the masters.

If you get one you will have the honor of cooking on a Green Egg BBQ grill that outdoes all of its competitors handily. The Large version will probably cost somewhere around $700, which is not much more than far lesser quality grills. How can they be offered at such low prices? Put simply, because this is all this company does. They have designed such a sweet smoker and cooker that they are able to keep costs down by only doing what they do best.

Buying the Green Egg Grill is probably best done by those who will use it pretty regularly, or those for whom money is not such a big issue. If you get one it would be a shame to not use it a couple times a week from late spring into early fall.

It is also a smoker and an oven, so it is very versatile to all your barbeque needs. Green Egg BBQ has a ceramic shell that encases everything you put in it, whether that be burgers, steaks, or even pizza. Yes, it can bake pizza.

Now, this BBQ uses lump charcoal. Since you may not be familiar with that, let me explain. It is a very pure and clean way to barbeque and cook. This particular type of charcoal is ground up by the manufacturers and then filled and bound in a certain way that allows it to basically “go further” than other charcoals. In terms of the Green Egg BBQ grill, it will give you a lot more time to cook the same thing.

Since the Green Egg Grill is a smoker, too, you should try to find some good wood to mix in with your charcoal. A lot of people don’t know that the flavor that comes from barbequing this way only half due to the wood flavor itself. It also comes from the juices which drip down onto the wood and then smoke back on up to it. Very fascinating!

There simply is no better, more affordable way to barbeque outside at home than with the Green Egg BBQ. It is the result of 35 years of innovation and refinement by just one company, and its ceramic siding is its true secret.

So everyone I urge you if you haven’t already to give this grill a little piece of your mind. Think about it. And if you do already have one and know what I’m talking about, then you may be ready to accessorize the Big Green Egg to further hone in your perfect and most delicious meats!

One new player on the scene of the Green Egg Grill competitors is called the Bubba Keg. This thing definitely looks like it was designed to directly infringe on the success of our favorite, the Big Green Egg. It is shaped like, guess what, an egg. And it is being marketed in a wham-bam type way. I think maybe they’re going for the younger crowd judging from some of their ad campaigns.

The Bubba Keg is about thirty pounds lighter than the Green Egg Grill. Well I’ll have to give them some admiration for that one. All things equal, lighter is usually better. (As long as it doesn’t blow over in the wind.) They are obviously marketing to a cockier male: Their website gloats: “Become a legend in your own backyard.” I’m laughing out loud.

Bubba Keg is a convection grill. For some reason the company seems to be dually in the business of mugs and thermoses on the one hand, and grills on the other!? I don’t quite get that. Anyway, it’ll cost you something on the order of $600 to get one of these cookers. Can this really be considered one of the top Green Egg Grill competitors? Not really: it uses steel walls versus Green Egg’s ceramic, so it sounds like it’s just not quite as high quality and won’t give the outstanding results we’re used to with the EGG.

How about the Weber Kettle? This one should be a little more familiar to most readers. Although it’s really a smoking grill, it excels in some categories where maybe Green Egg Grill doesn’t. For instance, it is very mobile or portable, easy to move around and light-weight.

A Weber, and really all other grills, cannot get to the amazingly high temperatures that Green Egg Grill competitors would like to get to if they really want to compete with the king of smoker outdoor barbequing, etc. Maybe that is not what they’re trying to do. I hope not because they don’t stand a chance.

Some people do like other grills because of the previously noted mobility of them. They also claim they don’t have enough cooking space on the EGG but I don’t know about that one. Maybe if they’re on a diet, or focusing on small portions of healthy organic foods then the other grills will be OK.

As you can see, there are a couple pseudo Green Egg Hill competitors out there, but none of them are really challenging the space that the king began to carve out for himself back in the 1970’s. Put simply, they are inferior products when it comes to cooking at super-high temperatures and doing things that all the rest of the neighbors only wish they could do.