Curing a pit with Pam

[Rounder]

Any of you guys ever cure a bar b que pit with Pam instead of rubbing oil on it? If so, did you have good results?

It seems like you could get great coverage with it being spray on but if it doesn't work as good as rubbing oil on it then there would be no use in doing it.

[Lafitte23]

I'm no pit master by any stretch but you'll likely get better results by rubbing on the oil.

[gonehuntin]

The first time I fire up a new pit I have always cured it with oil. When I get ready to cook I always spray down the cooking grates with Pam and then when the pit gets good and hot I spray the outside down. It sure cuts down on the rust.

[cosmiccowboy]

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[cumminchevy]

The first time I fire up a new pit I have always cured it with oil. When I get ready to cook I always spray down the cooking grates with Pam and then when the pit gets good and hot I spray the outside down. It sure cuts down on the rust.

so will high heat black spray paint

[Jaspro]

What's Pam look like? Is she attractive?

[Johnny Dangerr]

Just read an article today that said oil the meat not the grill....

[Passthrough]

so will high heat black spray paint

Pretty sure hes talking about the INSIDE!!

[Mike Murphey]

Don't know why you need to cure a pit....it's not like a cast iron skillet that smooths out the rough edges of the cast iron when it is heated and oil soaked....I would bet your pit is made of steel and it will not "cure". Just fire it up, get it hot to cook off contaminated oils and start cooking/smoking/BBQ'ing....

[Cotton]

It will cure, here's a plow disk cooker with the best nonstick cure I've seen.



Cure the inside and outside of the pit with lard and it will be there long after any high temp paint.

[Froggy]

I tried that once with my wife, Pam, and she hit me with her broom.

[Badboypfg]

I use olive oil in a spray bottle.

[Bonesplitter]

Lard, beats about anything else you can use. Both inside and out. Steel is porous and the lard gives complete protection where spraypaint fails!

[BuckySWT]

i sprayed pam on the inside when I first did the inside of my old pit...worked like a champ. sprayed it on thick though.

for the smoke box, even with 5 coats of high temp painted on paint (not out of the spray can...rolled on) the stuff burns off.

before that happens, I use a good peanut oil (handles the heat better than pam/olive or veggie oil) and soak up a rag real good and rub down the firebox real good after each use...when the metal is still pretty warm. It soaks in and keeps the paint pliable.

I don't mess with rubbing down the chamber...it never gets hot enough to burn the paint off...except right where the box meets the chamber...and that gets oiled too.

[rtread]

Looking at a can of ORIGINAL PAM right now....made with 100% natural canola oil. I've used canola oil to cure cast iron skillets, don't know why it wouldn't work good on a BBQ pit.