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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Charbroil Infrared & SRG style Cookers => Grills & Smokers => Big Easy (BEESR) and SRG Type cookers => Topic started by: mr breeze on November 30, 2013, 03:19:30 PM

Title: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: mr breeze on November 30, 2013, 03:19:30 PM

So, what is the consensus here when it comes to putting aluminum foil on the very bottom of The Big Easy to advance a quicker/easier cleanup?

I am kind of a clean freak, especially when it comes to cooking and I am always looking for a way make the clean-up process easier.

Is it okay to put foil on the bottom of The Big Easy, (of course with a whole in the middle), or would that in some way mess with the cooking process?

Thanks in advance…

-the breeze

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: RAD on November 30, 2013, 03:30:48 PM

I always use foil on the bottom my BE. Like you said, it makes for an easy clean up

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: mr breeze on November 30, 2013, 03:53:32 PM

Thanks RAD...  If you go this way then I know it is what I should be doing as well.  Thank you.

-the breeze

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: smokendevo on November 30, 2013, 04:10:52 PM

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I am kind of a clean freak, especially when it comes to cooking and I am always looking for a way make the clean-up process easier.

What we are suppose to clean a TBE. That's like cleaning your smoker every time you use it.  (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Su0EMC1btP0/UMqA6KYKBYI/AAAAAAAAGWc/OFtP0q7LfLQ/w37-h15-no/noidea.gif)

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: Keymaster on November 30, 2013, 05:03:45 PM

Good question!! I wanted to do the turkey this year in the SRG but wife needed the drippings and I would not eat them dripping on the mess I have in there now and into the collection tray. I sold my Primo so I need to get used to only cooking on the SRG or if it is not windy out I have a Lodge cast iron Hibachi.

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: smoker pete on November 30, 2013, 05:59:12 PM

I have never foiled the bottom of my SRG.  Then again I can't remember the last time I cleaned the bottom either!

Title: Re: Aluminum Foil On The Very Bottom of The Big Easy?
Post by: TMB on November 30, 2013, 10:43:50 PM

I just scrape the crud off the bottom and keep going