How to Light & Maintain Temp on a Big Green Egg
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🔥 Master your kamado grill with this quick guide! Learn exactly how to light a Big Green Egg and maintain temperature like a pro chef.
In this video, Chef Dez walks you through the ultimate step-by-step method to get your grill up to 400°F in just 15 minutes. We cover the vital importance of oxygen flow, using a hot air fan/charcoal grill starter, and the biggest lighting mistake people make (hint: closing the dome too early!).
Discover how the top and bottom air vents function like gas knobs to give you precise temperature control. Plus, learn why you should always wait to add your convEGGtor plate setter until after the fire is established. Whether you want to grill, roast, smoke, or bake, these foundational tips will make your next backyard cook highly efficient and successful.
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Early Kitchen Formation
Chef Dez's origin as a chef traces directly to a worn wooden footstool and flour-dusted countertops in his mother's kitchen. While other boys his age gravitated toward team sports, Gordon found his team at home - standing beside his mother, apron tied, dragged stool beneath his feet to reach the counter. This early exposure did more than teach technique. It embedded food preparation as identity, not hobby.
Professional Development and Credentials
Dez pursued formal culinary training and earned Red Seal Chef certification - one of Canada's highest standard of culinary competence. His professional journey moved through restaurant kitchens, private chef work, cooking instruction, television appearances, and live cooking demonstrations. He built expertise across techniques and cuisines and detailed his preference for bold, approachable flavour over fine dining pretension.
The career accumulated impressive markers: author of ten books (eight cookbooks plus one motivational book, and one inspirational memoir), host of a national food column "Chef Dez on Cooking" across Canada and Washington State, Corporate Chef for BC Egg (2000-2024), and Western Canada Rep for Big Green Egg (2014-2023).
The Turning Point - Returning to Roots
Despite accumulating professional success and credentials, Dez eventually recognized a misalignment between his work and his core purpose. The trajectory through television, corporate positions, and public demonstrations was "exciting and rewarding," but something fundamental was missing.
Dez articulates his philosophy clearly: "Great cooking is not about fancy ingredients or complicated recipes - it's about understanding simple techniques and trusting yourself in the kitchen." This directly contradicts much of the culinary industry's direction toward complexity and spectacle. He explicitly rejects "fancy foam towers on square plates" and "influencer glitter tacos" in favour of practical family meals.
The Mission Shift to Education
Dez launched the Chef Dez Academy as the vehicle for this refocused mission - online cooking classes accessible worldwide to home cooks at any skill level.