Greasy Gasket advice needed

Do you have a mapp torch or a weed burner? Could you possibly go over/under the gasket with some heat and wipe off the melted grease? I have to re-glue my gasket down on occasion since I'm anal about a clean looking gasket when installing and not using globs of silicone. 

Get your egg tp 1100F and the next day the surface should be clean enough to apply glue to and the grease on the gasket should be vaporized

first do no harm.  there's no reason to do more work than you need to.  if the quickfix fails, THEN feel free to expand the effort.

just quirt some under and see it if works.  if you work it into the fibers it will mesh and form a mechanical bond around the fibers, grease or not.  it should hold.  but if it doesn't THEN you can take it off and do a thorough cleaning. if you must, just rub/clean the ceramic with acetone (no, it won't harm the ceramic or 'contaminate it')

here's why i don't think you need to fuss too much:

when i first came up with the idea to try permatex (ten+ years ago), it was out of frustration. i already had a rutland installed, but i used the crappy cement that used to come with it and which was the forum rule.  that cement may work for metal stoves, but not ceramic.  the old rutland cement was water based, and the ceramic wicked it away before it fully cured, so there was a bond break.

eventually i had a few large sections of un-adhered gasket.  i still used the egg though, which meant grease and smoke

while getting lump at a local hardware store, I decided to look for alternative adhesives.  i found the permatex, then (maybe still) sold as "gasket maker" (copper colored), for automobiles.  said it was good to 600.  i knew the dome temp got hotter than 600, but not the ceramic itself, and figured what the heck?

why the big preamble?  because i didn't even clean the rim. i literally grabbed the rutland where it was loose, tore off the whole thing, and, in frustration at the repeated failures of the rutland adheisve, simply squirted an arbitrary bead of the permatex right through the soot and dirt of the rim, and reapplied the same gasket, jamming it into the adhesive and shutting the lid.  pure spite. if that didn't work i would regroup and figure out something else.

but it worked. and even a former 'rutland adhesive' advocate has come around to ditching the stov cement and recommends permatex.

haven't touched that gasket in more than ten years.

so don't bother with cutting out sections or fastidious cleaning.  give it a shot and see what happens.

I thought this was gonna be an olestra thread.