"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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|| "Piranah" > wrote in message
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||| I have a brand new grill. Its a pretty nice all stainless steel
||| CharBroil. It cost about $900.
||| I read that you should season the grill before using it. The
||| instructions I read said to turn the grill on high for 30 min, let
||| it cool, then coat everything with vegetable oil and let it run on
||| high
||| for 30 mins again. I did this, but when I went outside after 30
||| mins, the grill was at 700 degrees and the lid (which I had closed)
||| looked strange. It had copperish colored streaks all over the lid.
||| I dont
||| know if the steel was distressed from being overheated or what but
||| the streaks are permanent.
||| That was about 2 weeks ago. Today I wanted to clean trhe grill
||| because Ive used it several times and there is food gunked on the
||| grates. The instructions said to run it on high to let the the
||| greese
||| and other stuff gunked on the grates "cook off". Well it
||| disinigrated everything into ashes but now the discoloration on the
||| lid is even
||| worse. What gives? What is the proper procedure for cleaning the
||| grill. Is heating it up like this improper and did I damage the
||| grill?
||
|| SS will discolor when heated to high temperatures. I think it is
|| kind of neat looking. Call it patina and learn to live with it. It
|| is not going away. It will get worse as you use lots of high heat.
|| Happens with very expensive SS pots also and the owners get all
|| stressed out. It is a tool, use it as one.
||
|| As for cleaning the grates, what you did works fine. If you want
|| them to look as good as new (aside from some discoloration) soak
|| them overnight in a solution with ammonia.

He could go to his neighborhood motorcycle shop and get himself a bottle of
BlueAway as used on exhaust pipes but I think that's being just a bit
obsessive.

JD