Let's Talk BBQ
General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: smoker pete on March 24, 2017, 05:12:20 PM
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I am and have always been 100% in the camp that uses foil to cover their pellet smoker-grill pans. The photo above shows the residue/gunk from 1 smoke/cook of 4 pork butts last weekend. When I got my first MAK 2 Star years ago I initially did not foil my pan and spent hours trying to get it clean. I started foiling my pan after that and have never looked back. For me it's easier to replace the foil than scrape that nasty gunk!! See photo below.
A clean foiled smoker-grill provides me with beautiful blue clean smoke rather than the nasty gunk burning off during preheat and cooks.
What are your thoughts?
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I always foil my Rec Tec but not my home built pellet pooper the way the home built drains grease it would not help
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If you believe aluminum vapors cause Alzheimer's don't foil.
If the words of that country song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I'll Take My Chances "
I always foil my smokers
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I actually hate foiling! With that said, I will foil for long low and slow messy cooks. Definitely makes cleanup much easier! For every day grilling though, I prefer cooking naked...lol!! I find when cooking at hotter temps, the stuff pretty much carbonizes and just flakes right off with a paint scraper. I also spray my drip pan with coconut oil prior to grilling. Seems to keep things looser on the drip pan when scraping.
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I started out foiling my Mak. But grease always found a way under it. So I stopped. Maybe my foil technique needs improving.....
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I started out foiling my Mak. But grease always found a way under it. So I stopped. Maybe my foil technique needs improving.....
Would you consider the cleanup to be difficult when you go without foil?
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I started out foiling my Mak. But grease always found a way under it. So I stopped. Maybe my foil technique needs improving.....
Pappy aluminum foil has thousands of minute perforations. It is not airtight. I assume the hot grease finds it's way thru the foil and that's why after a cook you'll see grease under the foil. So buddy... It's not you! :D
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I'm in the "always foils" camp after starting out naked.
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I started out foiling my Mak. But grease always found a way under it. So I stopped. Maybe my foil technique needs improving.....
Would you consider the cleanup to be difficult when you go without foil?
Not really. But then again I stopped being overly concerned with that kind of stuff. I don't get too use my Mak that often as life gets in the way.
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If you believe aluminum vapors cause Alzheimer's don't foil.
If the words of that country song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I'll Take My Chances "
I always foil my smokers
Well let me tel you I always,
wait what was the question? ;D
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I quit foiling for 3 reasons:
1. I am lazy
2. I have a gas gill that does a great job of cleaning the carbon and gunk off my pellet grill grates and parts.
3. After cooking over it - look at the edge of the aluminum foil that is wrapped around the heat deflector/drip pan in a pellet grill - the "under side" if you will...Clearly the aluminum foils disintegrates, yet there is no ash or slag in the belly of he pit that can be found....So - where did it go? We know that the air volatility of a pellet grill's fan driven airflow can carry ash to your food occasionally - right?
So...WHERE did the tiny particles of aluminum go? ;) You know. Like or not....you are consuming some of it. SO, - is it good for you?
You decide...... 8)
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I have always foiled my Traeger and will continue to do so. I don't have a good place to scrape the drip pan and it will not fit in my gas grill so the foil is easy to dispose of and renew. Don
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I alway foil my Rec Tec, for me it makes clean up easier :)
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I am in the always foil camp....
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Foil.
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I always foil. I want to keep my new Rec Tec nice and shinny. LOL
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I didn't foil at first, but now I foil the davy crockett. I was getting crap all over the deck trying to clean it before. Now I just peel of the foil. So far I am preferring this method.
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I used to foil my Traeger, I don't foil my MAK
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No foil here.
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I'm also lazy so I foil.
Spring is here in the Great White North so it's time to break out the MAK, give her a good cleaning and get ready for another fantastic summer. ;D
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I'm also lazy so I foil.
Spring is here in the Great White North so it's time to break out the MAK, give her a good cleaning and get ready for another fantastic summer. ;D
"Break out the MAK".... as in, she was put away for the winter? Please tell me it ain't so!!!! ;-)
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No foil here.
Yet I see foil in your profile picture sparky! 8) :D
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FOIL FOIL !!!
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No foil here.
Yet I see foil in your profile picture sparky! 8) :D
BUSTED!! :P