Can I salvage my grill?

[AdamTex]

My propane grill uses cast iron grates for the cooking surface and over years of use they have started rusting.

Is it safe to eat off these? Seems like rust being transferred to food might be a bad thing.

Anything I can do to make it worth keeping, I already looked it to replacing the grates, could almost buy a new grill for the cost of the grates.

[The Insurance Guy]

Get the grill real hot. Use a wire brush to clean it while hot. Let it cool a little then coat grates with cooking oil. Then your good to go again

[Big O]

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This is the route I would go!

[Jerry H]

You should see the grates on the grill at our deer camp, it is always rusted because it doesn't used except when we are there.


Do what beetleguy said, get them hot and hit them with a wire brush. That’s what we do and we are all still alive.

[Mister Bubba's bulletman]

Always use Olive Oil on the grill and a light coating on the food before throwing it on the grill. Keeps those evil carcinogens from building up on chared meats. Or at least that's what l read on TBH.

[sharkhunter]

Hit it with a wire brush and get to cookin . It's really no big deal.

[Mayhem]

The cost of grates is ridiculous. I need to replace mine since they are almost burned through, but with the cost being more than the grill is worth I'm just going to replace the grill.

But for now the wire brush I use before I cook does the trick.

[Conquest]

what rust? that's cinnamon on that burger.

[huntresss]

I let our grill grates get beyond the point of even cleaning one time. They were so corroded and rusty that I was afraid that a wire brush would leave big holes in the grate! I found some disposable aluminum grill liners at Home Depot that fixed the problem for me. They were around $15 for a pack of ten or so. Cheaper than buying a new grate!

[Bucksaw]

Find someone that will make you some stainless grates. Might be expensive, but the grates will outlast the grill. Mine uses ceramic coated cast iron, and I have noticed that it has started to rust. Im gonna build myself some when these are too gone to use.

[AdamTex]

Thanks everyone, good info here

[Landrover]

I agree with the brush and HEAT!!!

[AdamTex]

Can I salvage my grill?

Turns out my grates are actually porcelain coated cast iron, does that make a difference, read online that porcelain coated ones should be tossed if they get rusted

[Cantcatch5]

That porcelain flakes off and the grate beneath rusts, I would toss it and start over.

I bought a sheet of expanded metal (the flat kind not the angled kind) for about $50 and cut a bunch of replacements one day. I get them hot and wire brush them, when they get too bad I toss them and start with another one but they really last a long time.

[muzzlebrake]

I been eatin off of my rusty grates for nigh on 50 years now. Of course it killed me back in 1963. Dang, can't believe I been dead that long.