Haven’t used it in a while. But this appeared after I did a cook Tuesday
by nyeakel
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TheWolf_atx
this Is fairly common. Especially if it has been sitting over winter Or you live in A wet/tropical environment. Once you fire it up after it has been sitting, It will sweat out any water and oil/fats that permeated the Porcelain. It will wipe right off once it’s done pushing it all back out. If you don’t use a drip pan for fatty cooks (brisket/pork butts/dark meat chicken etc.), it can make this even worse. Using a drip pan helps keep the nasty sweats to a minimum.
TrackingTenCross1
No reason to be alarmed, that is creosote & grease build-up in the pores of the ceramic. The egg will “sweat” this gunk out at higher temps. Some cleaning spray like Simple Green (or the BGE cleaning spray which I think is just rebranded) once it cools down and it should wipe off. If it continues after a couple more cooks, you can do a clean burn at very high temps (Fire it up! Fire it up!) and it should help get the gunk out, though you may scorch your gasket at the same time. Good luck, and I hope the food turns out well.
TheRealFiremonkey
I’ve got a tub of Clorox wipes in the drawer of my grill table, and I’ll wipe all that stuff off as soon as I see it appearing. I’m not waiting for it to drip down the sides or get on the table.
Wipes right off, even if I have to do it a few times before it stops.
Gloomy-Employment-72
Meat sweats. I get them too staring at brisket!
As the others have mentioned, it happens. I’m doing a clean burn as I type, and when I walked outside a little while ago I had a small pool of water under mine.
MajorTangelo7704
Mine always does that just after winter. Mine gets so bad that I do a really hot burn in it before trying to smoke anything for the first one of the season.
CantDunkOrSk8
Mine sweats out salt like soot.
chummsickle
It’s just something that it does from time to time
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this Is fairly common. Especially if it has been sitting over winter Or you live in A wet/tropical environment. Once you fire it up after it has been sitting, It will sweat out any water and oil/fats that permeated the Porcelain. It will wipe right off once it’s done pushing it all back out. If you don’t use a drip pan for fatty cooks (brisket/pork butts/dark meat chicken etc.), it can make this even worse. Using a drip pan helps keep the nasty sweats to a minimum.
No reason to be alarmed, that is creosote & grease build-up in the pores of the ceramic. The egg will “sweat” this gunk out at higher temps. Some cleaning spray like Simple Green (or the BGE cleaning spray which I think is just rebranded) once it cools down and it should wipe off. If it continues after a couple more cooks, you can do a clean burn at very high temps (Fire it up! Fire it up!) and it should help get the gunk out, though you may scorch your gasket at the same time. Good luck, and I hope the food turns out well.
I’ve got a tub of Clorox wipes in the drawer of my grill table, and I’ll wipe all that stuff off as soon as I see it appearing. I’m not waiting for it to drip down the sides or get on the table.
Wipes right off, even if I have to do it a few times before it stops.
Meat sweats. I get them too staring at brisket!
As the others have mentioned, it happens. I’m doing a clean burn as I type, and when I walked outside a little while ago I had a small pool of water under mine.
Mine always does that just after winter. Mine gets so bad that I do a really hot burn in it before trying to smoke anything for the first one of the season.
Mine sweats out salt like soot.
It’s just something that it does from time to time
That’s what I look like when I run on the beach
It shows that you love it.
Why does it look like Bobo Fett’s helmet. 🙂