Cuisinart® Porcelain Coated Cast Iron BBQ Cooking Grate

Thank you for taking time to leave a review. Please Note: Porcelain Coated Cast Iron Cooking Grates will require seasoning before and after each cook. Seasoning your grates improves the cooking performance, creates a non-stick surface for cooking, prevents damage and deterioration due to moisture and humidity, and extends the life of your grates, just like a cast iron pot or frying pan.

Steps to Season Grates:
1. Remove cooking grates from BBQ.
2. Using a brass bristled brush, remove any build-up on the surface. Only clean when grates are cool.
3. Wash the grates with mild dish soap and water.
4. Dry thoroughly – to avoid further damages caused from moisture entering the cast iron. Towel dry or let them sit in a very hot, sunny area to dry out quickly.
5. Using VEGETABLE SHORTENING (not butter, PAM, olive oil or any other oil that burns off quickly). Coat the entire cooking grate: front to back, every rod, corner and curve with vegetable shortening, ensuring that every groove or chipped area has been covered.
6. Once coated, pre-heat your conventional oven to 250-300 degrees.
7. Place seasoned cooking grates into conventional oven to bake the vegetable shortening into every groove on the surface of the cooking grates, including any chipping or cracking porcelain.
8. The baking time will depend on the thickness of the cooking grates but usually it is between 15-20 minutes, if oven is preheated.
9. Turn off oven and let cooking grates stand until cool.
10. Remove from oven and replace on BBQ.

Hope this helps!