re: Kamado grills?

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Compared to the KJ, a BGE is a rip off man. It really is.

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It's been like 6 or 7 years since I got my large BGE. The price difference was basically that I could get the KJ with a stand and flip up side tables for the price of getting just the BGE. I have mine in a table I built, so I didn't really care that much.

What I do like is that while I built my table, my local Ace Hardware loaned me the stand to use, then came pick up the stand and helped install the BGE in my table. And I had a firebox with a hairline crack, and even though it didn't really mess anything up, I just took a picture and next time I was by Ace, I showed it to them and they gave me a brand new one. No questions asked. The service and lifetime warranty seem to be worth it so far.