My only problem with the green egg is size. I can do about 10-12 slabs of ribs at a time in my smoker. I also tend to make a lot of briskets in the summer. I love doing a brisket. Plan on spending 16 hours cooking and my wife loves it so I get to spend as much time as needed on monitoring the fire lol. Its awesome when the wife says we are going somewhere that I don't want to go and I mention that I will be busy all day smoking food.