Can you Paint the inside of your cookbox

[LMichaels]

Yep paint it there or oil it up good. The oil will "season" into the metal once it heats and carbonize into a coating. But some good high heat paint should do it

 

[John Sandak]

Hey Folks,

A few more questions as this project continues on.
1- How Does this shelf stay up? I'm missing something here, a bracket or something.
2- How do you make this plastic look clean and fresh, looks sun faded and nasty.

Thanks in advance,
J

 

[Bruce]

Hey Folks,

A few more questions as this project continues on.
1- How Does this shelf stay up? I'm missing something here, a bracket or something.

Lift the table up and slide it to the right (towards the cookbox. It should then stay in the up position.

2- How do you make this plastic look clean and fresh, looks sun faded and nasty.

For the gray handles and thermoset tables: straight bleach and #0000 steel wool or a green scrubby. That should get most of it. If the thermoset tables are still dirty and rough after that, then you can sand them. Seriously. Then when all done, just coat them a couple times with some good vinyl protectant. I use Aerospace 303. Basically the same procedure with the gray handles.

Thanks in advance,
J

 

[Jon Tofte]

Perfect advice there! Hope you can post the “after” pictures.

 

[DanHoo]

 

[John Sandak]

Hello everyone,
Good news! The cook box, and sides are back from the Sandblaster. Woo Hoo. They look amazing. Like i said this grill has solid bones. I love how on the insides of the lids it says "Made In USA"
I will wire wheel the inside of the box and lids to remove any remaining media just to be sure i got every thing clean. Then I'll mask and Only paint the outside with grill high heat paint.

Then whats the next step? Do I coat the inside of the box with cooking oil or anything? Or do I just put it together and start my first inital Burn Off?

Please advise the secrets, and next steps.
Thanks,
J

 

[Bruce]

Don't bother doing anything further to the inside of the cookbox. No need to clean it further or coat it with oil. You will never see it that clean again. You are way ahead of the curve already. You could coat it, but just doing some skin on chicken or a grate full of burgers will season the inside just as quick and well. Just paint the outsides of the cook box and end caps, put it all back together and fire it up.

 

[Ed P]

Don't bother doing anything further to the inside of the cookbox. No need to clean it further or coat it with oil. You will never see it that clean again. You are way ahead of the curve already. You could coat it, but just doing some skin on chicken or a grate full of burgers will season the inside just as quick and well. Just paint the outsides of the cook box and end caps, put it all back together and fire it up.

What, no ribeye? I thought that was the traditional way of christening a grill!

 

[Bruce]

Yah, it is. But they don't sizzle the grease all over the place like chicken and 75/25 ground beef does.

 

[Ed P]

Ok, ribeye first, then chicken and hamburger. Or ribeye for you and serve the others the greasy stuff.

EDIT: I gotta learn to start using emojis! I was trying to be funny.

 

[Bruce]

Ribeye first would be my suggestion. But it seemed like the OP was too concerned about that clean cook box to wait for a second or third cook to get it good and seasoned.

Yah, maybe the ribeye along with a couple skin on chicken breasts and 4 or 5 good less than lean burgers all at once would do the job.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Just start cooking John, it will be fine no matter if it takes three or four cooks, the years you will enjoy it you will forget the day it looked this clean, I have.
Remember, no paint on any inside surface! Not no how, not no way!!!

 

[LMichaels]

Yes ribeyes or strips AND scotch for all of the board friends you have to invite. Just send me the address so I can put it into my GPS

 

[John Sandak]

Man, all this talk about RIB eye made me want to get one last night which i cooked up on my Red Head. I finished the greenie today and it works great. I wanted to thank all of you for all your feedback as i went through this project. You all gave me the assistance i needed to help me push forward with this project, Big ups to @Bruce and everyone else. Some pics attached (no order) are my Red Head / Daily grill, New Greenie, RIB eye and when i was painting the outside of the lid.

Thanks again folks
Best regards, and keep grilling.
J

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Yeah, I’ve never been to Tuxedo Park, I’m up for a road trip one of these days!