What advice or recommendations do you have about the Big Green Egg?

This is the Big Green Egg - the smoker of your dreams

As a Father’s Day gift this year, my brother, mother, and myself purchased my father a Big Green Egg. For those not in the know, it’s a large ceramic smoker that has a truly astounding cult following. While it is primarily a smoker, it also is hugely versatile. You can grill on it. You can make pizzas in it. You can do almost anything in it, it seems.

Sam and Dad smoked a bit of chicken over the weekend and while it was good, I can’t help feeling like we were only scratching the surface. (To be fair, he’d only owned it for 48 hours.)

Some of the other things we have planned include:

• BBQ Brisket (of course)
• Smoked fish like salmon and trout (Because I love smoked fish and it’s about the only thing that this thing makes that my non-meat eating girlfriend could eat)
• Homemade pastrami

So I wanted to toss out this request to Two Foodie Brothers readers who either own these or have used them. What advice or recipes do you have for three Big Green Egg newbies like us? What have you had successes cooking in the egg? What hasn’t worked so well? I want to hear all your stories.