For me I learned the facts of life in a magazine with beautiful pictures. More specifically
Texas Monthly - is your smoker/grill seasoned or just filthy? Yesterday I spent abut 2 hours cleaning two cookers of similar size with very different heat sources. Pit Boss Austin XL Pellet and Oklahoma Joe Highland Offset. They’re both about the same size. Vacuum, scrape-scrape & scrape. Vacuum. Inside, not much outside. Checked cords on Pellet checked and oiled hinges on both. I wore gloves and still got my hands stained. Both of these cookers had been through several multi meat cooks. Meat sweats happen to cookers too, not just humans. I usually don’t let my Cookers go multiple cooks without a good cleaning. I’m fortunate to live where humidity is as normal as a three Dollar Bill. Even our rain is dry. Due to low humidity and constant winds you don’t normally see the cooker critters that bloom in a humid climate.
However at least two cookers are cleaned and ready.
Seasoned versus Filthy. Glad we had this talk
Texas Monthly - is your smoker/grill seasoned or just filthy? Yesterday I spent abut 2 hours cleaning two cookers of similar size with very different heat sources. Pit Boss Austin XL Pellet and Oklahoma Joe Highland Offset. They’re both about the same size. Vacuum, scrape-scrape & scrape. Vacuum. Inside, not much outside. Checked cords on Pellet checked and oiled hinges on both. I wore gloves and still got my hands stained. Both of these cookers had been through several multi meat cooks. Meat sweats happen to cookers too, not just humans. I usually don’t let my Cookers go multiple cooks without a good cleaning. I’m fortunate to live where humidity is as normal as a three Dollar Bill. Even our rain is dry. Due to low humidity and constant winds you don’t normally see the cooker critters that bloom in a humid climate.
However at least two cookers are cleaned and ready.
Seasoned versus Filthy. Glad we had this talk
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