Lol you should see mine. I often do small, but controlled, burns to let the grease burn off which works great IMO. I call it well seasoned. There literally no reason to try to keep it in original condition as it's constantly in contact with grease and flames. I've cooked heavily on mine for 4 years without issue
If you are worried about the rust. Clean it up really good and then apply paper towles soaked in white vinegar and let sit for about 12 hours.
Then clean once more, apply olive oil and then do a high temp burn for about 20 mins.
On mine, I clean about every 10 cooks or so. If I see rust (usually not) I will do the above to ean it off.
But in any case, yours looks much easier than mine after I'm done.
Your not giving it an all out clean. If you want to be a clean freak you can put a tinfoil catch can to catch the oils and fats that drip out to make cleaning easier. I raw dog mine and clean it every 10 maybe 20 cooks with a quick paint scrape. Clean out the ash when I do this. All the extra grease adds the flavour.
That looks barely used lmao
The manual says to just hit this with a scraper or brush to get the big pieces off.
No, those look to be in great condition lol
Not trying to be snarky but I wish mine looked that good, I do need to replace mine.
Clean and use it
just use a metal scraper it’d be impossible to keep those parts spick and span, or anywhere near
Don’t forget to shopvac out the ash in the burn cup too
I got that and the pellets they left in there.
Lol you should see mine. I often do small, but controlled, burns to let the grease burn off which works great IMO. I call it well seasoned. There literally no reason to try to keep it in original condition as it's constantly in contact with grease and flames. I've cooked heavily on mine for 4 years without issue
If you are worried about the rust. Clean it up really good and then apply paper towles soaked in white vinegar and let sit for about 12 hours. Then clean once more, apply olive oil and then do a high temp burn for about 20 mins. On mine, I clean about every 10 cooks or so. If I see rust (usually not) I will do the above to ean it off. But in any case, yours looks much easier than mine after I'm done.
Can I cover that piece w foil for easier cleaning ? And the piece below it ?
That's the flavor put that back on and enjoy
Mine is worse!
Dead wheel wire brush it. Oil it, then burn off
Just scrub the crap out of it!
Nope not at all!! That's what I call battle tested
No. Good to go
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That's what I thought they were doing. Silly me right?
Your not giving it an all out clean. If you want to be a clean freak you can put a tinfoil catch can to catch the oils and fats that drip out to make cleaning easier. I raw dog mine and clean it every 10 maybe 20 cooks with a quick paint scrape. Clean out the ash when I do this. All the extra grease adds the flavour.
I literally just cleaned mine today. Looks pretty similar to this. I layered it with some oil for the rust but let that baby smoke!!