Cleaning the Blackstone Grill

There were a couple of questions yesterday about cleaning the Blackstone grill. I used it again this afternoon and took some photos.

Once it’s seasoned well, it’s so quick and easy to clean. As I mentioned in a comment last night, I went through the seasoning steps four or five times yesterday morning before cooking on it for the first time.

The steps are very simple:

1. Turn all the burners to high and wait til the color changes on the surface.
2. Using a lint free paper(ish) towel and tongs, rub a light coating of oil on all surfaces (cooking surface and the sides). I use grapeseed oil because that’s what I use on my cast iron.
3. It will immediately begin to smoke. Let it smoke til all the oil is burned off.
4. Repeat the light coat of oil and smoking process at least three more times.

It’s now ready to cook. This is the oil I use.

This is what I cooked this afternoon. I also cooked green beans but had already removed them from the grill.

This is what the grill looked like when I removed all the food – no scraping, no wiping yet.

Using the scraper, which is basically a bench scraper, I removed anything that was left on the grill, scraped it through the drain hole in the back, wiped the scraper off with a paper towel.

Then I turned the heat on both burners to high and once it the surface was hot, I wiped it down with oil, let it smoke til it stopped smoking.

I took this picture from the side, hoping you could see how smooth and clean the surface is. It’s ready to go for the next time I use it.

There are probably some sauces or other things you might use that would create a mess that’s harder to clean. So far, I’ve cooked eggs, bacon and hashbrowns yesterday. Today I cooked chicken with veggies, ginger and soy sauce, kinda browned some green beans and wanted to put a little brown sugar on them but knew it would cook onto the grill and make more of a mess so I put the hot green beans in a serving dish with a lid and added the brown sugar on top, then placed the lid on top so the brown sugar melted onto the beans, which was what I wanted.

I had cooked the rice in the pressure cooker this morning and let it cool. I first cooked a couple of scrambled eggs, took them up, then fried the rice, then added veggies, the eggs and soy sauce.