Seasoning Cooking Grates - Paderno VIDA Essence Series User Manual

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Seasoning Cooking Grates

Seasoning your porcelain-coated cast iron cooking grates are critical to ensuring a long life and optimal performance for your barbecue.
Seasoning will permeate the pores of your cooking grates, creating a non-stick surface, better performance and optimal protection
against moisture and water damage, keeping rust and deterioration away.
Tools required
Rubber gloves
How to season your cooking grates
1. Brush away any build-up with a grill brush.
2. Perform a burn-off on #10 setting / (
3. Shut down your barbecue and let it cool with the lid open.
4. Once cooled, remove and inspect your cooking grates. Scrape any remaining debris from the top and bottom of the grates.
CAUTION: DO NOT HANDLE PARTS UNTIL THE BARBECUE HAS COMPLETELY COOLED.
5. Wash cooking grates with soap and water.
6. Rinse and dry thoroughly with a towel or dry in the sun.
7. Using a pair of rubber gloves, coat your cooking grates top, bottom, sides and each rod with your choice of vegetable shortening,
canola oil, vegetable oil or peanut oil. DO NOT use salted fat such as margarine, butter or any non-stick cooking spray. Do not use olive
oil as it burns off at high temperatures.
8. Place your porcelain-coated cast iron cooking grates in your barbecue for up to 20 minutes, with your controls set to the #7 setting.
9. Following the seasoning process, the cooking grates must be allowed to cool down completely before use.
Seasoning tips:
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Canola oil, vegetable shortening, vegetable oil or peanut oil are the best options for outdoor grills.
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Season your cooking grates
1) Before first use.
2) Whenever the cooking grates appear dry.
3) At first signs of rust or corrosion.
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Before each cook, lightly coat your cooking grates with oil, this will help to build layers of seasoning.
Grill brush
) max. temperature for 10-15 minutes to incinerate any residual grease build-up.
Oil