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Homemade Ash Pan

Mike Beek 2 Comments

Have you ever asked yourself, “why am I doing it this way?”  Especially when you are not happy with your results?

I had one of those moments today.

This is something I’ve wrestled with longer than I want to admit (feeling sheepish).  

I thought I would share it with you now that I have a better way. 

I’ve always cleaned the ashes from my Big Green Egg by bending down the side of a small aluminum pan to make it an ash pan.

But, after using my ash tool to scrape the ashes from the Egg into the pan, a lot of ash always ended up on the shelf of my table – yuck. 

My bright idea was to cut the aluminum pan at two places rather then just bend it down.

Now, I can easily slide the resulting flap under the bottom of the Egg and catch all of the ash as I clean it out.

Here’s a quick video I made so you can see what I came up with:

If you would rather have the ‘real thing’ then you should get the official ash pan, and if you don’t already have one, the ash tool:

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It’s often the ‘little things’ that make my day 😏

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Comments

  1. Joe Jarrell says

    November 19, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Hi Mike!

    I think you have a great idea! But I just wanted to share how I clean the ash out of my BGE. Once the ash is cool, I scoop the ash towards the vent opening using the ash tool and then use a shop vac to vacuum the ash out. It usually takes me 2 iterations or so to get it cleaned completely. I have a small shop vac that I use exclusively for this purpose. The shop vac can be purchase for about the same price as the ash pan.

    I truly enjoy your website and thanks for the post!

    Regards,

    Joe Jarrell

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    • Mike Beek says

      November 23, 2015 at 4:19 pm

      Hey Joe, thanks for jumping in. The small shop vac sounds like a good idea…now, if only my wife will let me put a weatherproof container on the deck ;)…

      Mike

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