Big Green Egg table

[Hoang N Nguyen]

Hi all, just wanted to share my most recent project. It's a table for my big green egg smoker I've been working on for the last month and a half (2 or 3 hours a night). It's constructed of all cedar boards minus the back panel, I decided to built that out of hardyboard instead to save on time and the fact that it's facing the back of my deck where no one will ever see it. It's finished with an exterior rated with UV protection water base clear coat, 3 coats for the cabinets and 5 coats for the table top. The table top is laminated together from (4) 2x8 cedar boards and is cut right down the middle of the cut out for the egg. That makes the table top 2 pieces and is aligned with dowels and pulled together with some zipbolt counter top connectors. The cabinet break down into 3 pieces, the 2 side cabinets and the drawer where the egg sits on. That makes this project a total of 5 removable pieces in the event I need to break it down and move. Overall its 10 feet long and 26" front to back.

This is my very first project where I used something other then paint as a finishing so I have lots to learn. I've since read about how a lot of people don't trust water base clear coat for outdoor use so I'm hoping the people at Sherwin Williams knew what they were talking about and that the product is true to it's claims. Worst case I'll just strip the top coat down to bare wood and refinish it if it starts to peel. I'm hoping to get a few years out of it before that happens.

Sorry about the extra large pictures, I'm having a hard time uploading pictures to the forum again so I ended up using photobucket.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Ooo, I like it, Hoang. The lights really add to it all. When are we coming over for a cook-out ?

[Kent A Bathurst]

Looks Cool -

Yonak just offered to bring the beer.

I'm in.

[Hoang N Nguyen]

If you guys can make it here by the 28th, I'll have plenty of BBQ to go around. I'm making 20 pounds of pulled pork and 20 pounds of ribs.

[Kent A Bathurst]

I'll be on the lower Potomac River, otherwise I'd be there.............

[Matt Meiser]

Nice! But where are you going to find room for the other half of the cool accessories?

[Phil Thien]

That really came out great, I'm sure you'll enjoy years of use.

So do these things emit irresistible odors all day long?

[Scott Hearn]

Hoang that looks fantastic. I wish I had the room for a big one like that.

One thing though. Keep your eye on the wood where the feet of your table nest make contact. I have mine in a nest for the time being and the bottom does get pretty warm. I'd suggest getting some granite tile and placing a piece under each foot, or just lining the shelf with it, it will make cleaning out the ash less worrisome and the mess easier to deal with. It shouldn't have to be very thick since you are using the table nest.

[Hoang N Nguyen]

That really came out great, I'm sure you'll enjoy years of use.

So do these things emit irresistible odors all day long?

My neighbor 2 doors down texts me "whens dinner" every time I smoke a pork butt for 24 hours so I assume it does. LOL

Hoang that looks fantastic. I wish I had the room for a big one like that.

One thing though. Keep your eye on the wood where the feet of your table nest make contact. I have mine in a nest for the time being and the bottom does get pretty warm. I'd suggest getting some granite tile and placing a piece under each foot, or just lining the shelf with it, it will make cleaning out the ash less worrisome and the mess easier to deal with. It shouldn't have to be very thick since you are using the table nest.

I was kind of worried about the heat as well and have in mind to lay some form of stone under the egg. I'm not sure how wood reacts to heat but the stand the egg sits on is well built and reinforced. I started out ripping 4/4 ceder down to 3" wide strips and making a box, then I ran 2 runners front to back where the nest legs are and then the decking on top runs left to right. I pretty much constructed the top as you would a deck. You can see on one of the pictures of the drawer (egg sits on that) I have (2) 3" side legs that helps transfer the load from the top down to the bottom box and the whole thing sits on blocks at are attach to the side of the 4x4 posts. In a way the whole thing is free standing but made to look as if it's not.

I smoked a Tuscan chicken on the egg today and didn't feel that the wood got too hot but I still intend to add some kind of stone underneath the egg regardless just to give me piece of mind.

[Matt Meiser]

So do these things emit irresistible odors all day long?

Yes, yes they do.

[Joseph Valsi]

Nice work !!

[glenn bradley]

Very nice. I will not be letting LOML see this ;-)

[Andrew Hughes]

Nice work Hoang, I really wanted to get a Green Egg.Had to settle for a vision grill it's kinda the same not nearly as nice a the Egg.I like the two big work surfaces you created.Great job.Thanks for sharing

[Pat Barry]

First off this is very nice. You must do quite a lot of cooking and it will be great for that. My wife wants me to build something like this although a bit smaller in size and I think I will steal a few ideas from you!

[Bill Clifton]

I like it. Atlanta is doable. the 28th you say?