You neigh sayers that don’t think the Egg gets hot enough. When I was a novice BGE user, I was not paying attention to the egg as it heated up. I had a full load of charcoal
and my mind was elsewhere and pegged the factory thermometer. I (luckily) remembered to burp the top and saw an inferno like hell.
today, years later again not being diligent I pegged it again with aluminum grates on the factory grid.
Aluminum melts at 12-0 degrees
I’ve pegged a Kamado Joe. It didn’t go well at all. I had set it up to do a clean out burn and got called to the office. I was gone maybe 25 minutes. When I got back it was pegged, I have no idea how far above the 1000 degrees it was. The next thing I heard was loud popping noises as large cracks appeared in the dome. They were very gracious and warrantied everything. They did drop me a line and ask that I try to keep it under 700 in the future.
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I pegged my Bayou Classic Cypress Grill kamado a couple of times. No damage but the creosote/residue on the inner surface wicked through pores in the ceramic to the outside surface. The thermometer goes to 750o so I don't know how hot it actually got both times.
I think smoking residue has completely permeated my original Kamado Joe Classic. I’ve used it often for 9 years. It’s getting difficult to get a new gasket to stick for very long.
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A few times. Not lately though. Clean burn with full charcoal, bottom vent open, cap removed. It was pretty impressive. It looked like Chernobyl with flaming gas coming out the top.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
I destroyed 2 Grillgrate panels when my Weber Genesis II caught on fire a couple of years ago, and it also warped and damaged the cast aluminum body. While I have a set of Grillgrates that will fit the kettle and kamado, I've never put them on the kamado and then tried to achieve Inferno of Insanity heat levels, haha.
Sounds like you are lucky the ceramic didn't crack as well.
I took my SNS Kamado to 800-900 degrees once, thinking I just HAD to do that to make my pizza. My pizza crust recipe was spontaneously combusting, and I think I damaged some of the gasket material on the kamado as well with the insane flames shooting up around the heat deflector. I try to keep mine under 700F these days on the dome thermometer. If I need to sear, I toss a steak down on the low grate right above the fire, then move it up higher on an upper grate to finish. I don't need insane heat levels all the way to the top for sure...
I can also second Polarbear777 that such heat levels can remove the stainless properties of stainless steel, as my Genesis that melted the aluminum Grillgrate panels also has a supposedly stainless warming rack that is rusty as heck at this point in its life, likely due to the heat from that one fire. And I have trouble getting the stainless grates in my SNS Kamado to look shiny again as well - I feel they are discolored or damaged in some way from high heat - especially the upper charcoal grate.
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Large big green egg, set up with joetisserie attachment. All fuel and food grates out. One grill grate panel cut to fit across middle, resting on lower ceramic insert, to hold drip pan. Quite a bit of lump. Did a rotisserie chicken, lid open. Grill grate partially melted. I believe aluminum melts at 1221 degrees F. No other apparent damage. Lid being open probably saved the day. Chicken was great.
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You guys are dragging my AWS D1.1 engineering background out of me. I’ve welded a ton of stainless and yes you have to get up well over 1100* approaching 1500* to drag chromium molecules to the surface and sensitize the metal making a prone to corrosion. You must’ve really got those eggs hot because I don’t know how you would have done it unless you got up to those temperatures.
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