There's been some recent q-views that have shown some mighty clean grills/grates in the background. Caused me to go out and compare mine to these shiny examples. When I actually got down and looked, what I saw was something that was more of a fur coat of sorts, surrounding my grates. In fact, I don't think there's any exposed cast iron. It's covered in two years of rubs-n-spritz-n-sauce-n-mops-n-beer-n-whiskey-n-anything that's crawled in there and died. So here's my question: Should I work to unearth the iron grate or leave it as is to continue to add whatever flavor it might impart?
