Tech-enhanced cooking
EGG Genius
£ 320
£ 320
The EGG Genius effortlessly controls your EGG through your smartphone, tablet or computer. It remotely monitors the heat of the Dome and the food, and automatically adjusts the temperature when needed. You can also view data from your past cooks. Pure genius!
Will need to be plugged into a power source. Wifi enabled.
Code: AC6719
Long distance cooking
Set up your cook and the EGG Genius will take care of it for you. Handy if you have other things to be getting on with, or if tending to your EGG on a cold, wet day doesn’t appeal. For the longest low and slow recipes, you could even take yourself to bed!
Perfect results at your fingertips
The app tracks and automatically adjusts the temperature of the EGG as well as monitoring the temperature of your food. If you want to change the temperature settings at any point, you can do so remotely.
Practice makes perfect
The app logs all the data about your cook, so you can refer to it in the future if you want to replicate results or make any adjustments. Ideal if you’re trying to master the perfect brisket.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The EGG Genius clips neatly into the Draft Door. Two wires then feed into the EGG. One wire ends with a clip that connects to the cooking grid and measures the ambient temperature of the EGG. The other ends with a probe for insertion into your food (with an adaptor, you can have as many as three of these probes).
The device contains a small but highly efficient fan. If it detects that the temperature needs to be increased, the fan sends a carefully regulated flow of air into the EGG. It can also lower the temperature when necessary, simply by stopping this airflow. Genius, even if we do say so ourselves.
Cook to temperature, not time
This is a bit of a mantra round these parts. While recipes give a good indication of how long a dish will take to cook, it’s only by checking internal temperatures that you’ll get reliable results. For perfect results, here’s what to aim for:
POULTRY
Poultry legs: 72°C
Poultry breast: 72°C
PORK
Roasted: 62°C
Pullable: 93°C
BEEF
Rare: 50°C
Medium-rare: 54°C
Medium: 60°C
Medium-well: 65°C
Well done (if you must): 70°C
LAMB, GOAT or MUTTON
Medium: 60°C
Well done (if you must): 70°C
Pullable: 93°C
FISH
On or off the bone: 50°C
8 reviews
- The main problem with the Egg Genius is the initial setup. It is essential that latest software is downloaded, a bit of a fiddle in itself, or it will not connect to iOS. This is only made clear on the US website. UK distributers seem not to know about any connectivity problems. That said after I got it connected seems to work well.
- Eggsellent product - very useful. To be perfect, a more robust system of fixing in place would be good.
- The clue is in the name of the product - Genius! Low & slowed a pork shoulder for 14 hours, mainly overnight, and the pit temperature of 110 degrees stayed constant throughout! One tiny negative is that the product isn't waterproof, which in the UK can be an issue! Other than that a fab product!
- Really nice bit of kit. Had the meater plus before and decided to upgrade to full egg genius with fan. Only used it once so far and very impressed, excellent that it can work with a batter pack too without draining too much. Only thing it could do with is an estimated cooking time / count down as per the meater plus.
- Have used this for 2 cooks now and honestly it's awesome. It's expensive for what it is, but it works incredibly well and easy to use once set up.
- Light it, leave it and EGG Genius does the rest
FAQs
No, the EGG Genius must be connected to a power socket.
Yes! You’ll need to purchase a Y-Cable along with the additional probe which will allow you to connect two meat probes and a pit probe. Additional probes can be purchased here
Click & Collect is a delivery option that allows you to pick up your items from our Hampshire HQ. Depending on what’s in your basket, this may be one of the options available at checkout.
Click & Collect orders can be picked up from our Hampshire HQ. The address is: Alfresco Concepts, 3 Old Park Rd, Bishop’s Sutton, Alresford SO24 0JG
