my grandfathers not BGE from the 70s has been given to me and I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any info? BGE parts fit on it. I would say it's a knockoff but I'm told it is from before the company started
by Jocks_Strapped
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Awkward-Regret5409
That’s legit man. I love it. I’d love to have that in my backyard. That looks like the real deal man.
photogizmo
Awesome! Great heirloom item. I hope you can pass it down to your son / daughter when it’s time.
Rasgards
Looks almost identical to mine, except the Fujisan on mine is not an outline. Same writing down the center too. Hard to research, but I’m pretty mine is a Habachi Pot brand. Def before BGE. I refurbished mine with standard parts and it’s great. Smoked ribs last week and a loin roast last night.
johje05
Definitely not a knockoff, you could actually say the BGE is a knockoff of these vintage Kamados. I have a couple that I have inherited from my dad one I know is an imperial Kamado, and the other one I have is hard to identify, but I have settled on it being a Hibachi Pot because of the “ears” on the sides. Yours looks very similar to my Hibachi Pot even down to the stand. The main difference is that yours looks to have a metal slide bottom vent control and mine is a ceramic plug, it could just be that yours is newer.
I just went outside to check and my Imperial does not have any Japanese characters, my Hibachi Pot does have characters, but does not have the Mt. Fuji representation like yours does. You may have better luck positively identifying yours than I did due to the features of yours.
I would be careful when cleaning it out for first use, both of mine had cracked fireboxes, one I replaced and the other I fixed with furnace cement. If I had known how well the furnace cement would work, I probably would’ve used it to try and repair the one I replaced. One last word of caution, I have heard, and have no reason to doubt that these vintage Kamados cannot handle the higher temps that the modern ceramics of today’s Kamados can, so i try to keep mine from getting no higher than around 500 degrees. I have a newer Pit Boss Kamado if I want to do Pizza or something else that might require some super high temps.
Brand notwithstanding, I think you will really enjoy using your grandfathers grill. Your Kamado will be great for filling and smoking while being super charcoal efficient. Do some research on how to adjust the top and bottom vents for temperature control and invest in a multi probe wireless thermometer and a replacement bottom vents cover, it it is actually in as bad a shape as I think the picture shows and with care, it should treat you well and be around for your grandkids (if you have any) to inherit.
DirtyGritzBlitz
Imperial kamado. I have one I rebuilt with large bge parts. Works great, just no high temps
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That’s legit man. I love it. I’d love to have that in my backyard. That looks like the real deal man.
Awesome! Great heirloom item. I hope you can pass it down to your son / daughter when it’s time.
Looks almost identical to mine, except the Fujisan on mine is not an outline. Same writing down the center too. Hard to research, but I’m pretty mine is a Habachi Pot brand. Def before BGE. I refurbished mine with standard parts and it’s great. Smoked ribs last week and a loin roast last night.
Definitely not a knockoff, you could actually say the BGE is a knockoff of these vintage Kamados. I have a couple that I have inherited from my dad one I know is an imperial Kamado, and the other one I have is hard to identify, but I have settled on it being a Hibachi Pot because of the “ears” on the sides. Yours looks very similar to my Hibachi Pot even down to the stand. The main difference is that yours looks to have a metal slide bottom vent control and mine is a ceramic plug, it could just be that yours is newer.
I just went outside to check and my Imperial does not have any Japanese characters, my Hibachi Pot does have characters, but does not have the Mt. Fuji representation like yours does. You may have better luck positively identifying yours than I did due to the features of yours.
I would be careful when cleaning it out for first use, both of mine had cracked fireboxes, one I replaced and the other I fixed with furnace cement. If I had known how well the furnace cement would work, I probably would’ve used it to try and repair the one I replaced. One last word of caution, I have heard, and have no reason to doubt that these vintage Kamados cannot handle the higher temps that the modern ceramics of today’s Kamados can, so i try to keep mine from getting no higher than around 500 degrees. I have a newer Pit Boss Kamado if I want to do Pizza or something else that might require some super high temps.
Brand notwithstanding, I think you will really enjoy using your grandfathers grill. Your Kamado will be great for filling and smoking while being super charcoal efficient. Do some research on how to adjust the top and bottom vents for temperature control and invest in a multi probe wireless thermometer and a replacement bottom vents cover, it it is actually in as bad a shape as I think the picture shows and with care, it should treat you well and be around for your grandkids (if you have any) to inherit.
Imperial kamado. I have one I rebuilt with large bge parts. Works great, just no high temps