[HN Gopher] Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)
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Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)
Author : wrong-mexican
Score : 99 points
Date : 2025-04-26 20:09 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time:
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| _Dad and the Egg Controller_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18710205 - Dec 2018 (49
| comments)
| seafoamteal wrote:
| This was an absolutely beautiful eulogy.
| JohnMakin wrote:
| This is cool but I just wanna say as an avid bbq-er this sounds
| like one of those cases of optimizing the fun out of something.
| babying a grill for 6 hours in the sun as a tired dad getting an
| excuse to drink a modelo and nurse a crappy cigar getting away
| from the stresses of raising a family is a feature, not a bug -
| but also as a fan of perfectly smoked meats, I get it. This piece
| speaks to me.
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| You can drink your beer while avoiding your family just as
| easily with a controller. Also, egg (kamado) style grills are
| very good at holding a specific temperature if you get the
| inlet/outlet airflow dialed in
| staticautomatic wrote:
| Disagree. The heat tends to spike when the fire hits a piece
| of wood.
| fdhfdjkfhdkj wrote:
| You dont use wood in the Egg, you use charcoal, and not the
| petroleum infused stuff. Natural hardwood lump charcoal.
| You can smoke stuff for 6 hours not really touching it once
| it is dialed in.
| staticautomatic wrote:
| I use hardwood charcoal and some lumps of wood, as do
| many people.
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| I use charcoal generally but have had no problem with my
| kamado Joe holding a temperature within 10 degrees of a set
| point for 3+ hours
| SamBam wrote:
| I expect that building and optimizing this thing _was_ the fun.
|
| And perhaps where you see alone time while grilling, OP's dad
| saw alone time for hours in his workshop tinkering with things
| like this.
| tofof wrote:
| Those wanting to duplicate the electronic bbq idea can build
| themselves a HeaterMeter.
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| https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter/wiki
| phinnaeus wrote:
| Those wanting an off the shelf product can purchase a smart
| fire gadget. https://smartfirebbq.com/
|
| I have one and it's incredible.
| mhb wrote:
| That site is desperate for a paragraph about what the product
| does.
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| It's buried pretty deeply, but the product page does say:
|
| > _Monitor and Control your BBQ Smoker from your phone,
| anywhere!_
|
| > _Smartfire regulates the BBQ temperature on your behalf
| by automatically controlling the smoker airflow supply so
| you aren 't up all night adjusting vents._
|
| It does feel like the kind of product where everyone
| involved in the company and most of their potential
| customers know what it is, why they want it, and how it
| works.
|
| The ad copy focuses on making it attractive to people who
| arrive by searching for "BBQ Controller" and aren't sure
| which one they want. There's no real reason to try to make
| it approachable to people who don't even own a smoker, it's
| not like someone's going to impulse buy a $400 gadget to
| improve their experience with an activity they've never
| done.
| yapyap wrote:
| Truly a delightful read. Also after having seen the video, that
| is a really neat gadget! The knobs, the wires, the not having a
| (predictable) 3d printed case you'd kinda mentally intertwine
| with the idea of DIYing electronics like this nowadays.
|
| Chef's kiss
| aidenn0 wrote:
| It's been long enough since I did a DIY electronics project
| that I used a plastic case bought at Radio Shack (or maybe
| Marvac?) for my last one.
| ang_cire wrote:
| Great story, nice humor, very touching. Thank you for sharing!
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