Best EGGcessories: Must-Have Big Green Egg Accessories

The Accessories That Actually Matter

Walk into our showroom at Lexington Billiards & Spas and you'll see a wall of Big Green Egg accessories. It can be overwhelming. There are hundreds of EGGcessories in the catalog, and not all of them are essential. After years of selling Big Green Eggs and cooking on them myself, here are the 10 accessories that I recommend to every customer, ranked by how much they'll change your cooking.

1. convEGGtor (Plate Setter)

Price: $80 - $130 depending on size | Priority: Buy it with your EGG

This is the single most important accessory you can buy. The convEGGtor is a ceramic heat deflector that sits between the fire and the cooking grid, converting your Big Green Egg from a direct-heat grill to an indirect-heat oven and smoker. Without it, you can only grill. With it, you can smoke, bake, roast, and make pizza.

I won't let a customer leave the showroom without one. If you buy a Big Green Egg and don't buy a convEGGtor, you're using about 30% of the cooker's capability. It's like buying a truck and never putting anything in the bed.

2. Ash Tool

Price: $25 - $30 | Priority: Buy it with your EGG

The ash tool is a simple stainless steel rake that slides through the draft door to clean ash from the fire grate without opening the lid. After every cook, you spend 15 seconds stirring the ash through the grate and you're done. Without it, you're reaching into the cooker or dumping the whole fire box, which is messy and unnecessary.

3. Grid Gripper

Price: $20 - $25 | Priority: Buy it with your EGG

The cooking grid on a Big Green Egg gets hot. Very hot. The grid gripper is a spring-loaded handle that lets you lift and move the stainless steel grid safely. You'll need to move the grid to add charcoal, insert the convEGGtor, or rearrange your setup mid-cook. Without this tool, you're using oven mitts and hoping for the best. It costs $20 and saves you a trip to the burn unit.

4. Instant-Read Meat Thermometer

Price: $30 - $100 | Priority: Essential for your first cook

This isn't technically an EGGcessory, but I'm including it because I can't overstate its importance. The dome thermometer that comes with your EGG measures air temperature inside the cooker. It doesn't tell you when your brisket is done. You need an instant-read probe thermometer for that.

I recommend the ThermoWorks Thermapen ($100) if you want the best, or any decent instant-read in the $30-50 range. Cooking by internal temperature instead of time is the difference between perfect and overcooked, every single time.

5. Cast Iron Cooking Grid

Price: $60 - $90 | Priority: Within your first month

The standard stainless steel grid that comes with the EGG is perfectly good. But a cast iron grid takes your sear game to another level. Cast iron retains more heat than stainless steel, so when you drop a ribeye on it at 600 degrees, you get those deep, restaurant-quality grill marks and a crust that's hard to achieve otherwise.

I use my cast iron grid for steaks, burgers, and anything where I want a serious sear. I swap back to the stainless grid for everything else. Having both gives you options.

6. Pizza Stone

Price: $50 - $80 | Priority: When you're ready for pizza

The convEGGtor enables indirect cooking, but a dedicated pizza stone gives you that wood-fired pizzeria crust. It's a flat ceramic disc that sits on top of the convEGGtor or directly on the cooking grid. Heat the EGG to 500-600 degrees, slide your pizza onto the stone, and in 7-8 minutes you've got a pie that rivals anything on Limestone Street.

The Big Green Egg branded pizza stone is excellent, but honestly, any ceramic pizza stone that fits your EGG size works fine.

7. EGG Genius Temperature Controller

Price: $250 | Priority: When you start doing overnight cooks

The EGG Genius is a wifi-connected fan and temperature probe system that automates your fire management. You set your target temperature in the app, and the fan adjusts airflow to hold it steady. A meat probe tells you exactly when your food hits the internal temp you want.

For daytime grilling and smoking, you don't need this. The EGG holds temperature beautifully on its own. But for overnight brisket smokes or any cook where you want to sleep, work, or watch the Wildcats play while your food cooks, the EGG Genius is the difference between peace of mind and a 3 AM alarm to check the fire.

8. Stainless Steel Drip Pan

Price: $25 - $40 | Priority: Within your first few cooks

A drip pan sits below your food during indirect cooks and catches drippings before they hit the convEGGtor. This does two things: it makes cleanup dramatically easier (the convEGGtor is a pain to scrub), and it lets you add liquid (water, apple juice, beer) to create steam for moisture.

I use a disposable aluminum pan most of the time, which costs next to nothing. But the Big Green Egg stainless drip pan is reusable and fits perfectly. Either way, using a drip pan is a habit you should start from day one.

9. Nest Utility Rack

Price: $40 - $60 | Priority: Once you accumulate accessories

If you have the IntEGGrated Nest + Handler (which most people do), the utility rack hooks onto the side and gives you a shelf to hold tools, plates, rubs, and sauces while you cook. Without it, you're running back to the kitchen every time you need something.

It's a small thing that makes a real difference in your cooking flow. I'd compare it to having a side table next to your pool table for drinks, you don't think you need it until you have it.

10. Charcoal Storage with Lid

Price: $30 - $50 | Priority: Immediately

Lump charcoal needs to stay dry. Moisture kills its ability to light quickly and burn cleanly. In Kentucky, where we get plenty of rain and humidity from spring through fall, storing your charcoal in a sealed container is not optional. I've seen people leave bags of lump charcoal on the patio, then wonder why their EGG takes 30 minutes to get going.

Any container with a tight-fitting lid works. Big Green Egg makes a nice one, but a large plastic storage bin from Walmart does the same job for a third of the price.

The Complete Starter Shopping List

Here's what I recommend buying alongside your Big Green Egg on day one:

Accessory	Estimated Cost
convEGGtor	$80 - $130
Ash tool	$25 - $30
Grid gripper	$20 - $25
Instant-read thermometer	$30 - $100
Drip pan	$25 - $40
Charcoal storage	$30 - $50
Total	$210 - $375

The cast iron grid, pizza stone, EGG Genius, and utility rack can wait. Get cooking first, figure out what style of food excites you, then add accessories that match how you like to cook. There's no reason to buy everything at once.

Stop by our showroom at Lexington Billiards & Spas and I'll walk you through every accessory in person. I'd rather sell you 5 things you'll use every week than 15 things that collect dust on a shelf.