How do you season the inside of UDS?

[trance309]

Hi all, i am just wondering what you use to season the inside of a UDS? I am in the building stage and have burned out the inside. DO i have to coat the inside with cooking grease or cooking oil to prevent rusting till i start cooking on it?

[AustinKnight]

Hi all, i am just wondering what you use to season the inside of a UDS? I am in the building stage and have burned out the inside. DO i have to coat the inside with cooking grease or cooking oil to prevent rusting till i start cooking on it?

Ya you should use a towel and wipe the inside with some lard :biggrin1: that's what I did. Then fire that puppy up.

[bmock]

I rubbed mine down with crisco. That seemed to do the trick. I'd imagine you could spray or rub down with pam as well.

[Bludawg]

Spray it down with cooking spray Light it up let the temp come up to 350 for an hr then toss in a neked fatty or some chicken

[trance309]

Thank you all. Ill go with the cooking spray till i am ready to fire it up in a week or so. Then wipe it down with the crisco and do the burn in. Thanks again

[jrn]

Yeah I put a light spray of Pam on the inside of mine. Did that every few days till I finished the build. Then right before I fired it up, I gave it one final light spray. I let it burn for 2 or 3 hrs, then threw on a couple of fatties. Worked perfectly! Btw, Pam makes a BBQ Grill spray, which is what I used. But regular Pam will work fine too.

[Swamp Donkeyz BBQ]

I did the Pam spray also. Lit it up and went to bed. It looked great the next day.

[Pappy]

I finished building, started the fire, cooded some ribs. (I didn't have any rust inside to start with)

[El Ropo]

I used the least expensive cooking spray I could find. It didn't take more than half a can to coat the inside. Then fired er up at wide open for a couple hours. Worked perfectly

[JRoman]

I sprayed mine down with Pam then lit it off with some hickory wood & charcoal.