Lighting A Green Egg

Saturate all three pieces of paper towel with olive oil until you have about a 50 soaked with olive oil 50 dry paper towel.

Lighting a green egg. Use a natural charcoal starter or an electric or butane starter and never buy lighter fluid again. Electric starters can be plugged into a nearby outlet and rested against the coals. Put some charcoals in the chimney and light using a newspaper at the bottom.

Kamado Grill Ceramic Grill Charcoal Smoker. Shop Our Range Of Lights Fans More. Now that your lump charcoal and wood chunks are in place it is time to light the Big Green Egg.

Using a paraffin fire starter light only 3 or 4 coals in the center. The charcoal chimney starter is another way to light your Big Green Egg especially helpful if you already have one of these laying around from another BBQ pit. I would call this the old school way of lighting charcoal but it is extremely effective.

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Big Green Egg Starter Cubes I started off using these starter cubes because I got some in the package deal i used to buy my E. Once complete insert the paper towel into the lump coal of the Big Green Egg in Thirds. When adding charcoal to your Big Green Egg the best rule of thumb is to stop when youre 5cm below the rim of the Fire Ring for the right amount of clearance beneath your cooking surfaces.

5cm below the top of the Fire Ring. Big Green Egg charcoal can usually be lit and ready to grill in less than ten minutes. The one thing that you should NEVER EVER do is use charcoal lighter fluid in your Egg.