This morning it was time to fire up the new Blackstone 22" griddle after getting it seasoned yesterday. I must have done a decent job seasoning, nothing stuck. The menu was 5 strips of fatty store ought bacon, 4 eggs SSU, a potato pancake made from some leftover taters-sour cream-butter that was in the fridge, and a flour tortilla. I had everything pretty much ready to go when I fired up the griddle and turned the heat control dials down to about the center for medium. Lesson learned there, griddle started smoking, Greenpro said 540º, so I turned the knobs down as low as they'd go, waited a couple of minutes and then threw on the bacon. Boy howdy does thing ever cook fast, there was no time to be doing any shutter-bugging, gotta pay attention! Once I flipped the bacon over I put on the tater pancake in the bacon grease, a minute later the bacon came off and the eggs went on with a pot lid over them. I thought everything worked out OK!
It was nice to be eating on the patio and I learned a few things about cooking on the flat top. It cooks so hot even as low as it'll go that in the future I may try cooking with just one burner to save the other side for food to stay warm on without continuing to cook. Tho it cooks real hot, nothing burned, I like that! It was easy enough scraping the grease out to the rear drain, clean-up was a piece of cake.
All in all it was a successful first run, breakfast was delicious, I learned a little bit, and didn't burn myself! I'm thinking next up might be a Philly cheesesteak, give that one-burner-on-one-off theory a test drive. Thanks for lookin' in! RAY
It was nice to be eating on the patio and I learned a few things about cooking on the flat top. It cooks so hot even as low as it'll go that in the future I may try cooking with just one burner to save the other side for food to stay warm on without continuing to cook. Tho it cooks real hot, nothing burned, I like that! It was easy enough scraping the grease out to the rear drain, clean-up was a piece of cake.
All in all it was a successful first run, breakfast was delicious, I learned a little bit, and didn't burn myself! I'm thinking next up might be a Philly cheesesteak, give that one-burner-on-one-off theory a test drive. Thanks for lookin' in! RAY