After waiting for more than a year for my wife’s approval, and then another two months because someone got the last one in stock, I finally got to take my Big Green Egg home. Due to some prior engagements and being out of town for a few weekends, my BGE just sat in the corner of the living room. Not in the box mind you, it was too big to even fit in the car. It sat in the corner in pieces: the base was in the corner of the living room, the lid was on the ottoman, the firebox sat in a chair by the window and miscellaneous pieces were on the dinner table. Needless to say my wife was starting to get a bit frustrated. She finally let me get a Big Green Egg, and now it was sitting in the house and not in the backyard.
One of the reasons it was still in the living room was I didn’t have anywhere to put it. I knew I wanted a large egg, but I couldn’t commit to anything else. Did I want the table mates, do I need a nest handler? I kind of wanted a cart, but didn’t know if it would fit. I couldn’t decide. This was definitely an investment piece for my ever growing culinary collection. I didn’t want to make a lighthearted decision.
I did the only responsible thing. I turned to the internet for ideas on what I would actually need. That’s when it got interesting. There were some amazingly complex BGE creations out there. That‘s when I decided I was going to get creative. I’m just going to build a table for my egg. It started off as just a simple cart, and then tuned into a combination cart/prep table. I realized I could almost double the work surface if I put in a drop down leaf on the other side and still save space when I needed it.
Off to the lumberyard, to get some boards and four by four posts, and the next couple of days off work were spent in the backyard. A week later, my cart is finished enough for a trial run. We kept it simple: brats, grilled chicken and roasted vegetables. Even though I’ve been using Eggs for a couple of years at The Chopping Block, they still need a bit of a test run to see how they are going to behave. This one did very well. First dinner was a success and everything worked. I just have to install the drop down leaf and it will be ready for a fun summer of backyard BBQ’s. I’m hooked and officially an EGGhead!
