Re: Seasoning rusted Cast Iron Grates?

I'm not sure this idea will work for rust since I have not had that problem,
but it is at least a good way to do normal cleaning of your cooking grates.

Wad up a piece of aluminum foil, start with a sheet about one foot square.
Use the wadded ball to rub the grates in the direction of the rods, not
across the rods.

This is an excellent cleaning method, cheap, quick and easy to use. It
might also work on your rust problem. At least it is easy and cheap to try.
Good luck. Bob

"Kent" <kh6444@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Like a number of other NG users, I have a rusted cast iron grate for my
Weber Silver B. Does anyone have a good way to try to remove the rust and
clean the grates? Someone suggested using oven cleaner, with or without the
cleaning cycle of a self clean oven. I'm afraid to do that because the oven
is about to explode, hopefully not
until we install the new one this spring.
As I said in the post just above, I bought the porcelein coated grate, and
am very happy with it.
It would be interesting to compare the coated and non coated seasoned grate.
I'm afraid the seasoned grate
may win, though we'll see.
Thanks for any ideas that work,

Kent



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