Howdy, All!
Been a while since I was last here in the smoke. Life kinda intervened on me.
When I prepare chicken dishes in the kitchen, I am very careful in handling raw chicken and the utensils - including my hands - that touch it. I clean every vessel, utensil, sink, counter surface etc with Clorox as a part of clean up.
I have been thinking about smoking some spatchcocked birds. I usually try to run my side firebox between 225 - 250°. I doubt that is hot enough to kill any bacteria; so the question arises, how do you experts go about keeping your smoker grates safe? Would spraying with Clorox be OK or would it likely damage the grates (reg. expanded metal)? I'm thinking that I might put the birds on baking racks and place the racks in baking pans and place pans, racks, birds and all on the smoker grates but was wondering if it would be sufficient to treat the racks and pans with Clorox and leave the smoker be?
Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
rh
Been a while since I was last here in the smoke. Life kinda intervened on me.
When I prepare chicken dishes in the kitchen, I am very careful in handling raw chicken and the utensils - including my hands - that touch it. I clean every vessel, utensil, sink, counter surface etc with Clorox as a part of clean up.
I have been thinking about smoking some spatchcocked birds. I usually try to run my side firebox between 225 - 250°. I doubt that is hot enough to kill any bacteria; so the question arises, how do you experts go about keeping your smoker grates safe? Would spraying with Clorox be OK or would it likely damage the grates (reg. expanded metal)? I'm thinking that I might put the birds on baking racks and place the racks in baking pans and place pans, racks, birds and all on the smoker grates but was wondering if it would be sufficient to treat the racks and pans with Clorox and leave the smoker be?
Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
rh