@volks1234 Wrong on both counts. Big Green Egg is made in Mexico, and Grill Dome is made in India. Primo is the only brand to our knowledge that is manufactured in the USA.
really ??? you make the same cooker diff color and the try and say yours is better be cause of your stand lol go back to the drawing board and dont copy this time lol make your own design
i have had my green egg for about a 2years and i have never had a problem, the green egg is better. my brothers wife's sister got a grill dome and in two months she dropped it and the wouldn't give her a new one even though "SHE HAD WARNITY". wow.... what dose that tell you
You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you? The egg is not hard to put together what so ever. It took less than an hour start to finish... and I'm not even good at this type of project. I was able start cooking some perfect chicken within two hours of purchasing the egg. Way to sell out guys.. you should be proud.
I have a grilldome. If I were to do it again, I would have chosen a Big Green Egg. My Grill dome didn't come with accessories required to operate, which added to the cost substantially. In addition, the accessories offered were offensively cheap. After a few months the spacer ring cracked, and the paint began to bubble on the outside. Upon close inspection, you'll realize that the quality these two clowns are speaking of is nonexistent.
Is anybody really going to base their purchasing decision based on what Gomer and BBQ Buddy have to say? That would be like going to a Chevy dealer and listening to them compare Chevys to Fords. These guys make money selling these Big Green Egg wanabes. By the way, who came up with the wonderfully imaginative name "Grill Dome"?
You put it together one time. This is a poor video. You don't know what your talking about. All you keep saying one is a better product, other then putting it together you don't say why.
I bought my Big Green Egg & they actually delivered it to my deck. Set it up & lit it for us.
I prefer to purchase a tried & true product w/ a good history & great customer support. But then, that is just um um my opinion. My grandfather always told me. It's better to spend a few extra dollars to get a good products w/ support, then a cheaper product w/ no customer care.
I say talk to folks with an egg, & get real feedback from folks who don't have a financially interest in the product.
Stupid charcoal grills? traegers suck and are for the lazy uninformed people who are either too busy to enjoy taking the time to do it RIGHT! Slow down, learn about the fire... sip a beer... relax... smell the smoke.... get a little dirty... you will enjoy yourself, trash the sterile trager.
I have used both and i'm still buying an egg, your opinion is just an opinion , my experiance says buy an egg . My opinion says untuck your shirt you look like a 5 year old heading off for the first day of preschool....Tool!
bobul2, please see Dome V Egg: bb ribs,pork tenderloin, beef tenderloin, and whole chickens. The ahh's are common for a non professional pitchman. Mistakes are simple for humans to make. For example please see comment, "have waste 3minutes", from bobul2.
The Bubba Keg beats em both. No need for heavy and fragile ceramics anymore, plus the Bubba Keg is portable. The ceramic units do look better though. What this video lacked was a comparison of how the two units COOK, which is after all why people buy them.
I also think the Bubba Keg is a nice grill, however, I don't know how the steel unit will hold up to the elements compared to the ceramic units. I believe the ceramic kamados will fare better over time.
For cooking comparisons, please see my videos on: Bubba Keg Grilling Test, Egg V Dome Baby Back Ribs, Egg V Dome Whole Chickens, E V D Pork Tenderloins, as well as, Egg V Dome Tenderloin Steaks.
absolutely, and I highly recommend it, the flavor and ease of use are far superior to briquettes. Also, natural lump gets much hotter and burns much cleaner.
I'm sure you are just a jeolous dealer but thats ok everybody has an opinion, and no I did not lose it I can get them all day long and also have a extra large ,large and small that we cook on. have you ever cooked on a grill dome? I bet not. that is still ok its easy to knock something you haven't cooked on.
Really weak video and statements. Assembly happens once and a local dealer would do it for you anyway. Did you lose your BGE dealership due to carrying other ceramic products?
Sounds too Old Time Used Car-ish for me. I have had my large Big Green Egg for nine years now, live 75 feet from the Ocean and extreme winters here in Nova Scotia, and have never covered it. The powder coating on the bands and nest are fine after all the salt spray they get. I cook all year round, I researched the other products and ate off a number, the material used in the Egg comes from the same factory that makes the heat sheild tiles for the Space Shuttle, good enough for my food..........
Little research might be in order, and pieces of the Shuttle are made in lots of places outside of the US, the Arm/ Manipulator on the Shuttle and ISS is Canadian Technology. Research . . . . . . .
sorry just got results back from lab and here is what they found.Why our ceramic will not break or crack when they are heated? We found a type of ceramic material that has a very very small thermal expansion ratio. The closer the thermal expansion ratio of your ceramics is to zero the less the liklihood that your ceramics will break.
We use a type of ceramic called Spodumene for our ceramics. It has a very small thermal expansion ratio. We can get the thermal expansion ratio to be 0.2x10-6/℃ . It is so low that we can say the inner surface and outer surface almost have the same thermal expansion ratio. We are confident our kamado will not break because of thermal cycling. BGE uses a material called Cordierite and its thermal expansion is higher....1.76×10-6～2.30×10-6（20～1200℃）。
ok I give but you did bring up some valid questions about the egg. 1. i could not locate anything saying nasa produced anything for the egg other than what egg says on the site. Today it is made with space-age ceramics that were developed specifically for Big Green Egg to make it durable even under extreme weather conditions. the only thing i could find about nasa certified is when they cooked on it at a function. could not find a patent on it. at least 10 other companies make cookers patent??
not only does it cook better it has way superior hardware. I know once your a brand lover its hard to switch but the proof is there whether you want to admit it or not.
Oh, just in every way. All my friends prefer the big green egg. It is just easier, better quality, and most importantly, its the right height for easy cooking.
If I pay that kind of money it will be the BGE. I have watched your videos, went to your website and think the Dome grill is ok. I like the BGE look better. I love the BGE, people know when they see one. I wanna try food on both. I noticed your intake holes are smaller than the BGE. Why is that? What would be useful is a slid out ash clean out.
well most people know the egg but that really doesnt make it superior. I just hired a chef that will be doing recipes on both the grill dome and egg to show you the comparison the intake is not much smaller and serves the purpose. However a ash clean out is an excellent idea i will look into how we can make one of these work. Thanks for the idea.
Shopping for a new grill, I found this. Even with the caveat that the gentleman is expressing his opinion, the overly partial tone was too sales pitch'ish and really undermined the comparative purpose that it seems to intend to be. For that reason, the video didn't accomplish either convincing me the Egg is an inferior product, or that the Dome is superior and left me with the same indecision but only now with a feeling that I watched an 8 minute late night infomercial for the Dome.
not really when the egg annouced no internet sales it just made me look for another product and found out there are 10 or so products out there that are like or better. I still sell the egg i just think out of the 10 other products grill dome is superior ive cooked on every single one of them and my favorite is the gd. hey if you like your egg more power to you . they are a great company. I just like something else. happy grilling.
cooking demo's between grill dome and green egg are in the making and will be released soon. Yes the proof is in the cookin. Have you cooked on a grill dome Dakota?
We sell green egg, grill dome, primo,dragon fire and kamodo. we are just pointing out why we like one over the other and actually i have a green egg and have been cooking on it since 1998. now for honesty you joined youtube july 4th 2009 and never watched a video and came straight to my video and bashed me, are you a green egg employee mad that we have found a better product. we are educating the consumer and letting them know that we think thier are better products on the market.
your question about the stainless cart is that it would be more expensive. There is a new product called the kamado joe that looks like the gde in every aspect waiting to get our first one to test and it is way cheaper. anyhow this is our opinion and everybody has one. Hope this helps.
not sure wher you got the information from but the inside of the bge is ceramic just like the outside and the outsode of the gd is porcelin coated. The thickness of the gd on the cart is thicker unless bge has changed the cart. I will go measure one we just got in to make sure . Again the stability on the bge is not even close to being stable we took both products and rolled over no so smooth surfaces and the gd definately was more stable. Cost is the answer to your question about stainless.
Why didn't you mention that the BGE is porcelain where the GD is just ceramic. Porcelain is stronger, retains the heat better and gets up to temp faster.
The GD cart may be higher, but the legs are thinner and less stable.
Stainless is nice and won't rust but the amount of rust on the iron banding on the BGE is minimal. If stainless is so good, why isn't the cart stainless?
I've had both. If I were to buy another it would be the BGE.
I've got a BGE and I dropped it moving it to the frt of my house(my fault). I contacted the folks at BGE and they warrantied the firebox and gave me such a break on the outer part I couldn't believe it. They told me they wanted me cookin not hurtin. I couldn't care less what other product is out there, I would never own anything but a BGE, best customer service of any product I have owned. Plus their cooking clinics are fantastic, they care about their eggheads and that makes a difference!
The BGE body is bigger allowing greater air flow. It is the best Kamado style ceramic BBQ on the marketplace. With a proven track record BGE is the one to choose.
well that number can`t be reached from my area??? and I managed to find the company headquarter number in Canada but it`s not in service....guess i buy a primo. but thanks just the same.
i `m looking at buying one or four, I live in Canada, whats the best way for me to get one? they have a Canadian website but does n`t seem like their prepared to sell, go you have a Canadian number where I can order?
Lifetime warranty on the Big Green Egg, what about GrillDome? Plus, BGE is such a well established company, if and when you need parts 15 years from now, I bet BGE will still be in business. Notice how car companies with lousy reputations always compare themselves to Honda, but Honda never bothers to compare themselves to inferior products? Makes you wonder.
The grill dome also has a lifetime warranty and grill dome has been in business since 1989 bge 1974. grill dome are just not the marketing people like the bge company . I sell both of these products and was just merely pointing out the superior differences. People that have bought these products love the comparison video and were glad to find out about the grill dome prior to purchasing any of the smokers. green egg did not invent this style cooking they just market ed the heck out of it.
Video is kind of hokey, but I bought a grill dome from these guys. I looked at the dome and BGE. I borrowed a BGE from a friend and drove to Baton Rouge to look at dome. No doubt in my mind that dome is a better made product. The dome cooker and wagon are better made than BGE. That said, the dome wagon was not easy to assembly, and I'm pretty handy. BGE has an excellent reputation and lots of users. But, side by side, the dome is a better made product.
Green egg made in the USA grille dome made in china
volks1234 7 months ago
@volks1234 Wrong on both counts. Big Green Egg is made in Mexico, and Grill Dome is made in India. Primo is the only brand to our knowledge that is manufactured in the USA.
bbqguys 7 months ago 3
grill dome sucks!
i cant even buy a grill dome in my country mate.
joopvandermeer 8 months ago
the small one is better for yr short friend :))
mustafankamil1973 9 months ago
really ??? you make the same cooker diff color and the try and say yours is better be cause of your stand lol go back to the drawing board and dont copy this time lol make your own design
MRBIGGIEMAC 1 year ago
i have had my green egg for about a 2years and i have never had a problem, the green egg is better. my brothers wife's sister got a grill dome and in two months she dropped it and the wouldn't give her a new one even though "SHE HAD WARNITY". wow.... what dose that tell you
xXLexyy1998xX 1 year ago
You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you? The egg is not hard to put together what so ever. It took less than an hour start to finish... and I'm not even good at this type of project. I was able start cooking some perfect chicken within two hours of purchasing the egg. Way to sell out guys.. you should be proud.
ssandberg 1 year ago
I think people "in the know" realize that the profit margin is substantial compared to the BGE product line. But you don't mention that do you?
jasonstitus 1 year ago
I think you guys did a great job. Thanks for posting.
Jbirdsprings 1 year ago
counter height a little high on the grill dome for short people like your little buddy, give him a stool or a boost to cook on that.
lanceoa 1 year ago
I have a grilldome. If I were to do it again, I would have chosen a Big Green Egg. My Grill dome didn't come with accessories required to operate, which added to the cost substantially. In addition, the accessories offered were offensively cheap. After a few months the spacer ring cracked, and the paint began to bubble on the outside. Upon close inspection, you'll realize that the quality these two clowns are speaking of is nonexistent.
benjiesell 1 year ago
ive never seen these for sale in the uk
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
bbqguys
Is the distance from the cooking surface to the underside of the dome different between the 2 products demonstrated?
DistrictFire 1 year ago
Is anybody really going to base their purchasing decision based on what Gomer and BBQ Buddy have to say? That would be like going to a Chevy dealer and listening to them compare Chevys to Fords. These guys make money selling these Big Green Egg wanabes. By the way, who came up with the wonderfully imaginative name "Grill Dome"?
wpanimal 1 year ago
I thought it was informative- what do you expect from a review?
breezebro 1 year ago
@breezebro
Thanks Breezebro, we appreciate the support!
Chef Tony
bbqguys 1 year ago
You put it together one time. This is a poor video. You don't know what your talking about. All you keep saying one is a better product, other then putting it together you don't say why.
JRHikers 1 year ago
This guy is painfully biased. Wow. he could have at least pretended to be fair.
maoronne 1 year ago
I bought my Big Green Egg & they actually delivered it to my deck. Set it up & lit it for us.
I prefer to purchase a tried & true product w/ a good history & great customer support. But then, that is just um um my opinion. My grandfather always told me. It's better to spend a few extra dollars to get a good products w/ support, then a cheaper product w/ no customer care.
I say talk to folks with an egg, & get real feedback from folks who don't have a financially interest in the product.
fitmom68 1 year ago
quit wasting your time with those stupid charcoal grills buy a traeger
jmar6972 2 years ago
Stupid charcoal grills? traegers suck and are for the lazy uninformed people who are either too busy to enjoy taking the time to do it RIGHT! Slow down, learn about the fire... sip a beer... relax... smell the smoke.... get a little dirty... you will enjoy yourself, trash the sterile trager.
rclere1 1 year ago
a had a traeger and gave it away!! the food tastes like rotten shit!! not good at all
wjjmlg 1 year ago
I have used both and i'm still buying an egg, your opinion is just an opinion , my experiance says buy an egg . My opinion says untuck your shirt you look like a 5 year old heading off for the first day of preschool....Tool!
whiteymllr 2 years ago
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bobul2 2 years ago
bobul2, please see Dome V Egg: bb ribs,pork tenderloin, beef tenderloin, and whole chickens. The ahh's are common for a non professional pitchman. Mistakes are simple for humans to make. For example please see comment, "have waste 3minutes", from bobul2.
bbqguys 2 years ago
The Bubba Keg beats em both. No need for heavy and fragile ceramics anymore, plus the Bubba Keg is portable. The ceramic units do look better though. What this video lacked was a comparison of how the two units COOK, which is after all why people buy them.
flacrwdog 2 years ago
I also think the Bubba Keg is a nice grill, however, I don't know how the steel unit will hold up to the elements compared to the ceramic units. I believe the ceramic kamados will fare better over time.
For cooking comparisons, please see my videos on: Bubba Keg Grilling Test, Egg V Dome Baby Back Ribs, Egg V Dome Whole Chickens, E V D Pork Tenderloins, as well as, Egg V Dome Tenderloin Steaks.
Thanks For Your Interest,
Chef Tony
bbqguys 2 years ago
hi , can you use the lump charcoal in a webber keddle bbq??
popingamat 2 years ago
absolutely, and I highly recommend it, the flavor and ease of use are far superior to briquettes. Also, natural lump gets much hotter and burns much cleaner.
bbqguys 2 years ago
I'm sure you are just a jeolous dealer but thats ok everybody has an opinion, and no I did not lose it I can get them all day long and also have a extra large ,large and small that we cook on. have you ever cooked on a grill dome? I bet not. that is still ok its easy to knock something you haven't cooked on.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Really weak video and statements. Assembly happens once and a local dealer would do it for you anyway. Did you lose your BGE dealership due to carrying other ceramic products?
PimpPimp2323 2 years ago
Grill Dome all the way.......my entire family owns them! My brother's is 30 years old and still smoking! Thanks for your input guys!
susannaht770 2 years ago
Sounds too Old Time Used Car-ish for me. I have had my large Big Green Egg for nine years now, live 75 feet from the Ocean and extreme winters here in Nova Scotia, and have never covered it. The powder coating on the bands and nest are fine after all the salt spray they get. I cook all year round, I researched the other products and ate off a number, the material used in the Egg comes from the same factory that makes the heat sheild tiles for the Space Shuttle, good enough for my food..........
shredney007 2 years ago
really the egg is made and shipped from mexico to atlanta . I didnt know they had our space shuttle technology there.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Little research might be in order, and pieces of the Shuttle are made in lots of places outside of the US, the Arm/ Manipulator on the Shuttle and ISS is Canadian Technology. Research . . . . . . .
shredney007 2 years ago
sorry just got results back from lab and here is what they found.Why our ceramic will not break or crack when they are heated? We found a type of ceramic material that has a very very small thermal expansion ratio. The closer the thermal expansion ratio of your ceramics is to zero the less the liklihood that your ceramics will break.
bbqguys 2 years ago
We use a type of ceramic called Spodumene for our ceramics. It has a very small thermal expansion ratio. We can get the thermal expansion ratio to be 0.2x10-6/℃ . It is so low that we can say the inner surface and outer surface almost have the same thermal expansion ratio. We are confident our kamado will not break because of thermal cycling. BGE uses a material called Cordierite and its thermal expansion is higher....1.76×10-6～2.30×10-6（20～1200℃）。
bbqguys 2 years ago
ok I give but you did bring up some valid questions about the egg. 1. i could not locate anything saying nasa produced anything for the egg other than what egg says on the site. Today it is made with space-age ceramics that were developed specifically for Big Green Egg to make it durable even under extreme weather conditions. the only thing i could find about nasa certified is when they cooked on it at a function. could not find a patent on it. at least 10 other companies make cookers patent??
bbqguys 2 years ago
thanks for the opinion and happy grilling.
bbqguys 2 years ago
not only does it cook better it has way superior hardware. I know once your a brand lover its hard to switch but the proof is there whether you want to admit it or not.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Oh, just in every way. All my friends prefer the big green egg. It is just easier, better quality, and most importantly, its the right height for easy cooking.
Horiz2win 2 years ago
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taprootgrills 2 years ago
familiar as in seen pictures of both or touched and cooked on both familiar.
bbqguys 2 years ago
I am familiar with both and the BGE is superior in every way. I appreciate the impartiality of these guys, but the Egg is much better than the Dome.
horiztwin 2 years ago
If I pay that kind of money it will be the BGE. I have watched your videos, went to your website and think the Dome grill is ok. I like the BGE look better. I love the BGE, people know when they see one. I wanna try food on both. I noticed your intake holes are smaller than the BGE. Why is that? What would be useful is a slid out ash clean out.
rsh326 2 years ago
well most people know the egg but that really doesnt make it superior. I just hired a chef that will be doing recipes on both the grill dome and egg to show you the comparison the intake is not much smaller and serves the purpose. However a ash clean out is an excellent idea i will look into how we can make one of these work. Thanks for the idea.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Weak pitch. More profit in the GD?
Ardynas1 2 years ago
actually not they are exactly the same profit margins. The one kamado with the most margins in it is the primo which is also a very nice product.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Shopping for a new grill, I found this. Even with the caveat that the gentleman is expressing his opinion, the overly partial tone was too sales pitch'ish and really undermined the comparative purpose that it seems to intend to be. For that reason, the video didn't accomplish either convincing me the Egg is an inferior product, or that the Dome is superior and left me with the same indecision but only now with a feeling that I watched an 8 minute late night infomercial for the Dome.
HayseedEdumacation 2 years ago
Is the real reason you like grill dome better because BGE will not let you sell them over the internet?
36egger 2 years ago
not really when the egg annouced no internet sales it just made me look for another product and found out there are 10 or so products out there that are like or better. I still sell the egg i just think out of the 10 other products grill dome is superior ive cooked on every single one of them and my favorite is the gd. hey if you like your egg more power to you . they are a great company. I just like something else. happy grilling.
bbqguys 2 years ago
big green egg 4ever! i got a cookie cake on mine right now:)
wazup862 2 years ago
sounds yummy smoked cookie cake. Try smoked pizza its awesome.
bbqguys 2 years ago
cooking demo's between grill dome and green egg are in the making and will be released soon. Yes the proof is in the cookin. Have you cooked on a grill dome Dakota?
bbqguys 2 years ago
This is a sales pitch - not a comparison. He is at least honest enough to state that he sells the Grill Dome.
All of the points he makes has nothing to do with how it functions as a cooker.
If he was a Big Green Egg salesman he would being saying the exact opposite.
This is a very slanted, incomplete review.
DakotaShipmate 2 years ago
We sell green egg, grill dome, primo,dragon fire and kamodo. we are just pointing out why we like one over the other and actually i have a green egg and have been cooking on it since 1998. now for honesty you joined youtube july 4th 2009 and never watched a video and came straight to my video and bashed me, are you a green egg employee mad that we have found a better product. we are educating the consumer and letting them know that we think thier are better products on the market.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Porcelain is the name given to a pure white type of ceramic.
drmlabs 2 years ago
your question about the stainless cart is that it would be more expensive. There is a new product called the kamado joe that looks like the gde in every aspect waiting to get our first one to test and it is way cheaper. anyhow this is our opinion and everybody has one. Hope this helps.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Any opinions when comparing a "Kamado Joe"?
snakyjake1 2 years ago
not sure wher you got the information from but the inside of the bge is ceramic just like the outside and the outsode of the gd is porcelin coated. The thickness of the gd on the cart is thicker unless bge has changed the cart. I will go measure one we just got in to make sure . Again the stability on the bge is not even close to being stable we took both products and rolled over no so smooth surfaces and the gd definately was more stable. Cost is the answer to your question about stainless.
bbqguys 2 years ago
Why didn't you mention that the BGE is porcelain where the GD is just ceramic. Porcelain is stronger, retains the heat better and gets up to temp faster.
The GD cart may be higher, but the legs are thinner and less stable.
Stainless is nice and won't rust but the amount of rust on the iron banding on the BGE is minimal. If stainless is so good, why isn't the cart stainless?
I've had both. If I were to buy another it would be the BGE.
marmeaux 2 years ago 2
They both look like nice units. I think Id go with the GD when i can afford one.
waylifetruth 2 years ago
Rip off of the BGE
elliott4012 2 years ago
actualy if you wan to get technical green stole it from the kamado that invented it hundreds of years ago it even says so on thier site.
bbqguys 2 years ago
I've got a BGE and I dropped it moving it to the frt of my house(my fault). I contacted the folks at BGE and they warrantied the firebox and gave me such a break on the outer part I couldn't believe it. They told me they wanted me cookin not hurtin. I couldn't care less what other product is out there, I would never own anything but a BGE, best customer service of any product I have owned. Plus their cooking clinics are fantastic, they care about their eggheads and that makes a difference!
golfsjr 2 years ago 6
The BGE body is bigger allowing greater air flow. It is the best Kamado style ceramic BBQ on the marketplace. With a proven track record BGE is the one to choose.
ScurvyDawg 2 years ago
i have both right here and the grill dome body is bigger. Yes green egg has a great marketing history but it doesn't make them the best.
bbqguys 2 years ago
well that number can`t be reached from my area??? and I managed to find the company headquarter number in Canada but it`s not in service....guess i buy a primo. but thanks just the same.
kenstelziggy 2 years ago
i `m looking at buying one or four, I live in Canada, whats the best way for me to get one? they have a Canadian website but does n`t seem like their prepared to sell, go you have a Canadian number where I can order?
kenstelziggy 2 years ago
877-743-2269
bbqguys 2 years ago
Hey mick thanks for your comment the grill dome does come with cart as a package deal.
bbqguys 3 years ago
Lifetime warranty on the Big Green Egg, what about GrillDome? Plus, BGE is such a well established company, if and when you need parts 15 years from now, I bet BGE will still be in business. Notice how car companies with lousy reputations always compare themselves to Honda, but Honda never bothers to compare themselves to inferior products? Makes you wonder.
t63421 3 years ago
The grill dome also has a lifetime warranty and grill dome has been in business since 1989 bge 1974. grill dome are just not the marketing people like the bge company . I sell both of these products and was just merely pointing out the superior differences. People that have bought these products love the comparison video and were glad to find out about the grill dome prior to purchasing any of the smokers. green egg did not invent this style cooking they just market ed the heck out of it.
bbqguys 3 years ago
Video is kind of hokey, but I bought a grill dome from these guys. I looked at the dome and BGE. I borrowed a BGE from a friend and drove to Baton Rouge to look at dome. No doubt in my mind that dome is a better made product. The dome cooker and wagon are better made than BGE. That said, the dome wagon was not easy to assembly, and I'm pretty handy. BGE has an excellent reputation and lots of users. But, side by side, the dome is a better made product.
dw9322 3 years ago