For some time now I have owned a Big Green Egg. The problem is 
that I have a medium BGE, and I need more room for grilling. I am considering replacing my BGE with a Primo Oval XL. If anyone out there has any experience, either positive or negative, with the Primo I would be grateful to hear from you.
I hate to lose my BGE, but I just need more room.
yojoe out
Update: I have purchased the Primo Oval XL. I will post a review soon.
Update II: I have posted a review of the Primo Oval XL.
Here are some of my BGE recipes:
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I have a large BGE, and I contemplate what to do about more capacity as well. I’m not sure that I can get the capacity that I’d like to have with any ceramic on the market.
I’d be interested to know what you decide, though.
Cheers,
Braddog
Braddog -
Thanks for the thoughts. The Primo has the extended cooking racks that should make for more grill area. I will let you know how it works.
When I was in Italy I used a Lepage (or something like that grill). It made the food (I know this sounds wierd) sticky. I hope you have better luck than I did.
So go out and buy the giant green egg model. It is huge and also keep your current medium size green egg. You will be much happier.
I’d go for the Oval large if I were you. Lots of space and choice to work with.
Keith and John – The one thing that keeps me looking at the Primo is ability to have the fire confined to one side, using the firebox divider. But no matter which I chose I will keep the med BGE.
Any time I buy an expensive household item that will get hard use, LOCAL dealer support always has the final say as to which brand I buy. In my area, there are several family owned stores w/in 25 min that stock/sell green eggs. After 6 years of high temp searing (steaks), my fire box cracked. Called my dealer, THEY pulled my purchase/warranty information, I drove 25 minutes, gave them the broken fire box & out the door with a new fire box, no charge, cooking 2 hours later. While there, bought a new gasket & a cast iron cooking grid. Best $50 I ever spent, sear ability is unreal. After reading some technical reviews on the Grill Dome, it seams they “may” have made some improvements over the egg (thicker ceramics, stainless hardware, better springs, color choices) and if I were to get another ceramic cooker I would seriously consider a G/D IF THERE WAS A LOCAL DEALER, but at this time there are NO G/D dealers in my area NJ and I don’t want any part of having a heavy fragile item shipped & then put up with years of frustration dealing with online warranty issues & shipping/handling costs with potentially heavy replacement parts covered by warranty. The Large egg has been the best grill I ever cooked on and has amazed several chefs that came over and saw it in action. Nothing cooks like a ceramic cooker and the green egg does it very well.
Should have added that the Big Green Egg is the only brand that has dealers in my area so my reasoning as to the importance of local dealer support applies to all brands of ceramic cookers. Wish the situation would change, larger variety would be great & price would probably come down.
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