The Dual Zone System

The Dual Zone System

Multi-level Cooking on your Big Green Egg

Big Green Egg's fantastic Dual Zone system is an ingenious little creation that transforms your Egg into a multi-level cooking oven. This is a new edition and an improvement upon their old Eggspander system, making cooking on the Egg easier than ever. You can make the most of the full depth of your Egg, grilling over the intense heat of the coals and roasting in the warm air at the top of the dome at the same time. This means that you can cook entire meals at once with food cooked in different ways at different temperatures, all within the same Egg. It is cooking quite unlike you've seen it before.

The Dual Zone system comes as standard with XL and Large Eggs. It includes a basket, two half moon ceramic deflectors and two half moon stainless steel grids. For true versatility, you can add to the system with additions such as a multi-level rack to get even more height to your cooking, as well as extra half moon surfaces such as planchas and searing grids.

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How to Set Up Your Dual System

Happily, the Dual System is designed with ease in mind. It's even easier than the old Eggspander system to set up, and with a bit of practice you will become the alfresco chef you were born to be! In just two simple steps, your system can be up and running and ready to cook.

Step 1: Add the Dual Zone Basket

This is the frame of your system, providing two different levels from which to cook. Simply pop the basket into the base of your Egg.

Step 2: Add Your Half Moon Surfaces

Choose which of your half moon surfaces are suitable for the type of of cooking you are doing, and then slot them into the levels of the basket. If you are doing indirect cooking such as roasting or baking, make sure you slot your ceramic deflectors on the bottom. If you're smoking or grilling, go without your deflectors and just use your grid. If you're cooking in a variety of different ways at the same time, add the mulit-level grid and make use of the different half moon surfaces available, like baking stones and planchas.

Your Half Moon Surfaces

The Ceramic Deflectors

The Dual Zone system comes with two half moon ceramic deflectors. This creates the perfect environment for indirect cooking such as baking and roasting. It deflects the intense heat of the coals, allowing air to freely flow around the Egg. By putting two ceramic deflectors at the bottom level of your basket and the grids on the second level, you can roast your meats and casseroles, or bake your breads and pastries ensuring that heat is evenly distributed throughout.

The Stainless Steel Grid

The stainless steel grid is perfect for roasting, smoking and low and slow cooking. This is also the surface you want to use when cooking with pans or casserole dishes, as well as when utilising the higher levels of your Eggspander system for warming. It is the most diverse of the half moon surfaces, perfect for both direct and indirect cooking.

To get even more from your Dual Zone system, Big Green Egg offers a variety of additional accessories. This includes woks and pans available specifically designed to fit within your Egg. To find out more of what Big Green Egg has to offer, please don't hesitate to contact us.