Building an elevated grid.

DaveRichardson

Question for the Egg Family...

I am thinking of building one of the raised grid or a swinging grid for my LBGE.

Definitely going to use stainless steel threaded rod and hardware. But I know that some of those items have some machine oil on them from manufacturing.

Question: once built, should I let it cook in the egg for 30-60 min to burn off some of that oil? Or longer?? Maybe running it thru a cycle in the dishwasher would be enough???

Curious on what y'all think?

NPHuskerFL

Let it heat up in the egg to burn off residual oils etc and have at it.

Jeremiah

I wouldn't worry. I've probably ingested more tooling oil than most and feel fine! b-(

bettysnephew

Get some spray brake cleaner from an auto parts store and wash all of the excess oil from the rods.  Let it dry overnight and bake it then.  The oil will be almost all removed and not smoke up your Egg.  If any small amount of cleaner remains it will flash off at a much lower temperature.  Just for safeties sake, I would do it on another grill if you have an old gasser or Weber, if not leave the lid open while heating the parts.  Do not breathe the fumes that might come from the oil or the brake cleaner, your lungs will thank you.

CtTOPGUN

 I would prefer not to allow non food grade oil to be absorbed into the ceramic. Get rid of it before using it in the Egg.

atgcpaul

When I built mine, I washed all the pieces in the sink with dish soap and rinsed several times.  After assembly, the whole thing sat in a hot Egg after I finished cooking some steaks.

RRP

Here's my novel elevated one that has worked for years! It cleans up with ease, knocks down with even more ease for storage and is CHEAP! Two fire bricks on edge with an auxiliary grate.

Eggbertsdad

I'm with RRP.

I use a couple of bricks and it works fine. 

nolaegghead

I built a brick tower.   It's very cave-man.  Well, mason-cave-man. 

DaveRichardson

Might look for some fire bricks.... But definitely going to build as well. Sink and dishwasher sound the best choice to de-oil.

Ragtop99

RRP said:

Here's my novel elevated one that has worked for years! It cleans up with ease, knocks down with even more ease for storage and is CHEAP! Two fire bricks on edge with an auxiliary grate.

I'd be nervous that the food might stick or the grate move when flipping items and slide off the bricks (especially if adult beverages were involved in the cooking process )  

My raised grate is basically the same diameter as the BGE grate and raised to even with ceramic edge so that it won't go anywhere if I goof up.

RRP

Ragtop99 said:

RRP said:

Here's my novel elevated one that has worked for years! It cleans up with ease, knocks down with even more ease for storage and is CHEAP! Two fire bricks on edge with an auxiliary grate.

I'd be nervous that the food might stick or the grate move when flipping items and slide off the bricks (especially if adult beverages were involved in the cooking process )  

My raised grate is basically the same diameter as the BGE grate and raised to even with ceramic edge so that it won't go anywhere if I goof up.

Well, that hasn't happened to me even once in 14 years. Some people use 3 bricks feeling that is more stable, but like I say it has never tipped, fallen on me.

henapple

The thing I don't like about the bricks is the lost space on the bottom rack. Build one out of 3 bolt/washer/nut combos.

DaveRichardson

@henapple‌ That's my whole reasoning for the nuts and bolts.... Space concerns!

Hankyorke

3 - 4.5" stainless to get to gasket level. 4 - 4" stainless carriage on the second grid for more space.

If I want to sear I flip the BGE grate to get back to flat on the fire ring.