Big Green Egg Grill
Some rather familiar things just poke on our curiosity: a rather ominous-sounding black box is hardly black but painted a bright color orange to aid location after a plane crash. And then I thought of sharing to you about my latest interesting find. In one of my searches for outdoor grilling equipment I came across a ‘Big Green Egg’. Sounds Martian, even. So what has this got to do with our family’s favorite weekend pastime?
This ubiquitous sounding term is actually an outdoor cooker that is creating quite an enthusiastic following among amateur chefs and fussy housewives. Them who like their barbecue steaks grilled in precise degree of doneness with the tender meat barely clinging to the bone and seared in savory juices and wood chip flavors. Sure, an authentic steakhouse in the backyard is a welcome idea.
What we can’t wait to discover about Big Green Egg is its rumored capability to simulate a brick oven to cook pizzas. In my mind is the famous fire cooked pizzas in New York — brick ceramic walls and all.
Interestingly, the fans of this grilling device have created a fraternity of sorts by collectively calling themselves “Eggheads.” Puns aside, the group even holds a big gathering of ‘Eggheads’ every October in Tucker, Georgia aptly called “Eggtoberfest.” which is replicated in other parts of the United States and the world for that simple reason of celebrating their love for the Big Green Egg by way of, what else, spirited roasting and nonstop grilling event.
My curiosity would lead me to know that the Big Green Egg’s origin is traced to an ancient clay cooker called a “kamado.” Our ingenious Japanese brothers, ever mobile chasing battles, devised a handy round clay pot with a removable domed clay lid to satisfy their fondness for steam cooking. The Americans took the cue while skirmishes of World War II were going about. It can be told now that the Westerners packed-up and brought with them the brilliant idea. Only, the Americans customized it for the love of grilling and roasting.
Perhaps to color the dome-shaped grilling device green was a no-brainer. The production people, who I learned are based in roast-loving Mexico, or whoever, meant to compliment Big Green Egg with outdoor garden setting, I suppose. But you really cannot think of a better generic color for this distinctive oval thing lest you end up with the intimidating idea of a ‘big black egg’.
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