Jesse Skeens wrote:
"frohe" wrote in message
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Jesse Skeens wrote:
When I cleaned her up the other day I notice some of the paint
coming of on the bottom where the ashes were.

Any cooker's gonna turn loose of its paint, Jesse. If it turned loose
inside your cooker and over the cooking area, ya wanna get a brush and
break it off so it don't fall on your food. Anyplace else inside,
forget about it. On the outside, it's your choice. Me, I could care
less with that ol 55 gallon cooker of mine. If it bothers you or
SWMBO, then make a trip to your local auto shop and buy some black
engine paint.

Cosmetically I could are less but I was worried about rust forming.
It gets pretty humid here in Orlando and I've had problems with rust
on cast iron grates before.

Jesse

Cook fatty meats, and *DON'T* clean off the grease. Keep the metal all greased
up. When I lived on the coast just east of Orlando (one of the "rust capitals"
of the world) I kept a black box from rusting using this method. Sometime back
Hound posted a picture of a new cooker of his, showing *his* method of rust
control...cooking fatty meats and using the fat to "season" the rusty spots.

BOB