Is 2-zone cooking easier on the newer N-S burners than the old E-W style? How about searing?
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DanHoo
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I'm 99% sure my BGE grate is cast iron without porcelain coating as they never mention porcelain anywhere. This grate completely rusted one time I left it out in the rain, but it cleaned up well.
I think the grates on my E330 are porcelain coated, but I cannot see any difference between the BGE cast iron and the grates on the E330.
I'm curious, can the porcelain be sanded off?
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Steve Hoch
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I'm sure it could be, but can't imagine the effort involved to get the coating off 100% everywhere.
KevinInStL
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Can somebody give me a crash course in CI grate care? Clean right after cooking while it's still hot, then spray it with a light coat of oil?
I'm going to stick with the CI for at least a week or 2 until I decide whether to drop $140 on the solid rod SS grates or get the channel-formed SS ones for $60. Definitely leaning toward the cheaper option for now.
I'm going to stick with the CI for at least a week or 2 until I decide whether to drop $140 on the solid rod SS grates or get the channel-formed SS ones for $60. Definitely leaning toward the cheaper option for now.
DanHoo
TVWBB Olympian
Smart choice to just cook on them.
I don't do anything special to care for mine. I cook on them. I clean them with heat. If its a really messy cook I crank it up on high and set a timer for 10 min.
Otherwise I preheat them, scrub them with a SS wire brush, even though I've been told and read not to. sometimes I'll rub some leftover oil on them with a paper towel. Sometimes I'll spray them with non-stick cooking spray if I'm cooking something that is likely to stick.
Sometimes I'll clean and re-season them with a raw onion. I save the ends and just rub them on the grill when its hot. The onion leaves behind a non-stick coating.
In all fairness, it is pretty dry where I live so I don't have moisture inside the grill very often.
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I don't do anything special to care for mine. I cook on them. I clean them with heat. If its a really messy cook I crank it up on high and set a timer for 10 min.
Otherwise I preheat them, scrub them with a SS wire brush, even though I've been told and read not to. sometimes I'll rub some leftover oil on them with a paper towel. Sometimes I'll spray them with non-stick cooking spray if I'm cooking something that is likely to stick.
Sometimes I'll clean and re-season them with a raw onion. I save the ends and just rub them on the grill when its hot. The onion leaves behind a non-stick coating.
In all fairness, it is pretty dry where I live so I don't have moisture inside the grill very often.
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Jon Tofte
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I had one of those BGE cast iron grates. They did not have porcelain coating. The first coated ones Weber sold for the Genesis and also at some point for the Q series had a smooth, shiny black coating. Looked great in the pictures (I loved the ads with fully cooked food on unused new grates
) and on display in the stores. It cleaned up easily for those first few cooks. But it didn't take long for the porcelain to crack and peel off - on your food if you weren't careful!I just junked 3 or 4 sets of these grates that I had been saving for the day when I had so much time on my hands that I would be willing to take the time to use some kind of grinder stone and remove the porcelain - at least on the cooking surfaces. It never came, so good riddance!
More recently, some coated cast iron has a rough, brown finish. I am sure this will also come off, but it does seem more durable and not as susceptible to peeling. These LOOK a lot like uncoated. I bet your E330 has these.
Weber made uncoated cast iron way back in the early Genesis days. I have 2 or 3 sets. You can tell them by the patent mark on the back:
They are also much heavier than new Weber cast iron.
DanHoo
TVWBB Olympian
Jon has some stamped SS grates. For the price they are hard to pass up. You might get a set as a backup for the CI in the wet season.
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