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[quote=Anonymous]I love my kamado (egg-shaped ceramic) cooker.  I was going to get a Green Egg but went with Vision because it was larger for the same price.  If you are only grilling (cooking hot), you wont like an egg because it has small grill surface area.  If you/your husband wants to bake or smoke, you will like the egg.  I make pizza with mine too.  I would go for the large because you need enough space for ribs/chickens.  Also, smoking is a little effort (6 hours for ribs/12+ for pulled pork), so you tend to make a lot at a time for company (I cook Thanksgiving turkey on my grill).

I would start with the just the egg and get a heat shield (convEGGtor) which is needed for baking/smoking.    Also, you will need the stand (or nest) because outside of the egg gets really hot and you don't want to just sit it on your patio/deck.

As for cooking, the benefit of an egg over other grills is that you can really control the oxygen to the coals, so you control temperature and also kill the fire when you are done cooking.  For example, shut off the air after I finish cooking, so there is a lot of charcoal left that I relight the next time.  I end up not using a lot of charcoal during a month.[/quote]

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