blazinfire
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2015
- Location
- west...
Hey guys. Today I decided to pull the vertical offset out and give it a good cleaning. I didn't clean the grates from the last cook and I just got a weed burner decided to fire it up and scrap the crud off of the grates.
I even scrapped the bottom of the smoker out from grease and gunk. Which made me wonder about a few things.
How long do you guys normally spray the grates with fire? Do you use the torch lever or do you just spray with the base fire without accelerating the flame? I was more worried about getting the grates too hot and they start warping.
After taking the fire to it, I used a metal spatula and scrapped all the crud off of it, then sprayed it with fire again. I was curious after it cooled off to see if it was clean or had black residue left from the grease/oil and gunk and sure enough my hand was covered with black residue. Is the black residue from not burning the grates long enough?
Do you wipe the grates down real well with a rag? I did this and it seemed to make the grates cleaner where I can lay food or my hand on it without getting a bunch of black residue on it. Its a good way to ruin a rag though.
I tried looking online for videos and just watch to see how other people handle cleaning the grates with the weed burner and found there's little to none out there. That I could find anyways. Seems like that's my problem with everything though LOL.
I even scrapped the bottom of the smoker out from grease and gunk. Which made me wonder about a few things.
How long do you guys normally spray the grates with fire? Do you use the torch lever or do you just spray with the base fire without accelerating the flame? I was more worried about getting the grates too hot and they start warping.
After taking the fire to it, I used a metal spatula and scrapped all the crud off of it, then sprayed it with fire again. I was curious after it cooled off to see if it was clean or had black residue left from the grease/oil and gunk and sure enough my hand was covered with black residue. Is the black residue from not burning the grates long enough?
Do you wipe the grates down real well with a rag? I did this and it seemed to make the grates cleaner where I can lay food or my hand on it without getting a bunch of black residue on it. Its a good way to ruin a rag though.
I tried looking online for videos and just watch to see how other people handle cleaning the grates with the weed burner and found there's little to none out there. That I could find anyways. Seems like that's my problem with everything though LOL.
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