CI plate setter users....

dougcrann

How do you keep it clean, just a simple brushing? Do you hit it with oil, to keep it seasoned, on a regular basis?

Big_Green_Craig

I use a stiff bristled brush and just give it a good scrub.  It's cast iron so I guess it wouldn't hurt to use a little cooking oil. 

DieselkW

Keeping it clean is a question for whether or not you intend to use it as a cooking surface as well as a direct heat deflector.

If you're not going to cook on it, why keep it clean? If you cook on it, it's going to get really messy and "require" cleaning.

Either way, you don't want rust, so season it.

To clean it, fire it really hot - 700f dome. Nothing that survives that kind of heat (1200+f iron temp?) will be "dirty" enough to worry about ingesting. You have to re-season after that kind of burn. White ash is a good sign it's clean. Brush off the white stuff, oil and replace on the fire ring while the Egg comes back down in temp to season.
 
Depending on what you cook, and what splatters on your iron, will determine your need to fire clean it.  If you bring the thing inside and put it in your sink, you'll get perspective on how dirty and HUGE the thing is. I don't recommend washing it in your sink.

Just burn it off, brush it, oil it, let that oil sink in at 400f.

Or you can wrap it in foil.

dougcrann

DieselkW said:

Keeping it clean is a question for whether or not you intend to use it as a cooking surface as well as a direct heat deflector.

If you're not going to cook on it, why keep it clean? If you cook on it, it's going to get really messy and "require" cleaning.

Either way, you don't want rust, so season it.

To clean it, fire it really hot - 700f dome. Nothing that survives that kind of heat (1200+f iron temp?) will be "dirty" enough to worry about ingesting. You have to re-season after that kind of burn. White ash is a good sign it's clean. Brush off the white stuff, oil and replace on the fire ring while the Egg comes back down in temp to season.
 
Depending on what you cook, and what splatters on your iron, will determine your need to fire clean it.  If you bring the thing inside and put it in your sink, you'll get perspective on how dirty and HUGE the thing is. I don't recommend washing it in your sink.

Just burn it off, brush it, oil it, let that oil sink in at 400f.

Or you can wrap it in foil.

Plan on using for everything. Wife wants to start "baking" on the Egg. We just got the Large a couple weeks ago, figured I would put the Ceramic Plate Setter aside and let her use that for baking purposes and the CI one for everything else. But then again the CI one won't absorb any flavors so as long as it is clean she could use it for baking, correct?

Have had our XL since 04 or so and am finally getting interested in using it beyond burgers and flank steak...

biggreenrob

I have never oiled mine.  I just use a grill brush to clean it.