How to clean plate setter?

Newbie48878

Just purchased a large bge and used the plate setter for the first time. The bottom got dirty from charcoal smoke and is all black. How do you clean this? I rinsed it in hot water. Is there something else I should do?

Mickey

I would never use water on my platesetter (and I don't like my platesetter). Most of us have dirty bottom platesetters.

boatbum

I wouldnt worry about it.   Never gonna have food directly on it.   No way it will return to pristine condition.

XLentEGG

The ps will end up being black. Just the way it is. use a drip pan when possible and if you still feel that you need a cleaner ps, just thow it in when you do a high temp burn and clean.

Doc_Eggerton

The only reason I have to clean the plates setters on my eggs is so they don't shed stuff where I store them.  That said I have cleaned them twice.  I used a sparing amount of water from a hose and the grill brush.  I then set them in the sun all day, and actually had no use for them for a week.  They fared just fine.

I would not soak them, nor would I use one right away that had been significantly dampened, but porous means moisture goes out as well as goes in.

I would never introduce water into the Egg its self.

On edit; WATER ONLY.  No soap, no solvents.
 

travisstrick

If you fire the egg up as hot as you can, the plate setter will get pretty white and clean. (dont forget to flip it so it cleans both sides)

boatbum

Heat it hot - what doesn't burn off, scrape it off.   Don't think I would even want any water on it - seems like a potential problem.   I always have a drip pan - or piece of foil down to catch dribbles and drips - so all I have on is the blackening from cooks.

Newbie48878

Oops, thank you all for your replies. Will let the ps dry completely before using again.

lwrehm

Gunk engine cleaner and a 2500 psi pressure washer?

 

lwrehm

Just kidding!!!!!

 

I never clean mine, a good pizza session and it looks great!

R2Egg2Q

+1 for "cook pizza" as an answer

EddieK76

I can send my dog over, she'll lick it clean and then knock it off the table and crack the leg.......

gerhardk

If it doesn't smoke it's not really dirty the black is what shows you are using it.  I scrape the gunk off mine before every cook but never wash it.  

Gerhard

Brad @ Lake Hartwell

A clean plate setter is a sign of a sick mind.

(Just like a clean desk.)

OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO.

Get a hot fire going and drop the plate setter right in the hot coals. It will look brand new. It's actually pretty shocking.

Mighty_Quinn

Once dirty it's useless....throw away and but a new one.

daveyray72

That aint dirt...that's flavor.  Leave it.

cortguitarman

Cook some pizzas. Mine came out snow white after a few hours at 600 degrees.

cortguitarman

Once dirty it's useless....throw away and but a new one.

Absolutely! Although, I'd recommend he throw it away at my house!

psalzer

Clean it???? Your'e supposed to clean a it???

Shawn

I brush it off or use a glass scraper! Never wash water! humidity in them is bad!

burr_baby33

I put aluminum foil on mine but today I made jerky and forgot to foil the ps. I used a wire grill brush, then foiled it and kept on making jerky. No problem.

Duganboy

I haven't even considered cleaning mine.

CapnKirk

Love to find these old posts...my 1st cook was yesterday....staggered starts for all...1 whole chicken (rubbed and "craked open" down the back), 1 whole tri-tip marinated in Mr Yoshida's Asian sauce (really glad Costco in Plano TX started to carry tri-tip roasts in the meat section, loved em in California but hard to find here in TX), and a bunch of sausages.....came out OK for 1st time....overcooked a little as I didn't have a thermometer yet but the wife and neighbors liked it all...as the cook, ya all know we're our own biggest critic.....The wife asked if I was gonna clean the "PS" to which I answered, "of course not", and after checking today I am happy to have found out that I was right...