In this tutorial video, Matt Hussey demonstrates how to clean and season a Blackstone griddle. The supplies needed depend on the type of griddle you have. To clean a Blackstone griddle, follow these steps:
- Prep tools: Most cleaning tools are already available at your disposal.
- Clean the griddle top: Follow these steps to ensure your griddle top is prepared for cooking.
- Clean the rusty griddle: Use vinegar to provide a deeper clean, tackle rust, and restore shine. Mix a 1:1 solution of vinegar and water in a spray bottle for easy application.
- Go over the griddle after cooking with a grill brush to remove greasy food bits and prevent them from getting cooked on the next time.
- Deep clean the griddle: Make a cleaning solution of dish soap mixed with hot water. Dip a microfiber cloth in the soapy water and wring it out to be damp but not dripping.
- Clean the exterior: After every cook, sprayed and wiped the exterior. Then, hard top lid and food debris should be scraped into the grease tray.
- Rinse the griddle: Use paper towels, a spatula, hot water, a scouring pad, and cooking oil.
- Let the griddle cool down before using it to scrape the crust. Spray the griddle with water and repeat the process with the scraper.
- Give the griddle a good scrape and use a metal scraper to remove any leftover food particles or moisture. Rinse it down with water.
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Todd I don’t know if everyone is like me but I found something I was lacking to maintain and have not seen addressed. I have had the Blackstone adventure ready for about 4 years. Bought for my RV but liked it so much it was also used at home. Just bought a new griddle and was cleaning up to give to my nephew so was taking down to deliver it. I realized I never took the grill top off so didn’t see the areas of rust where the top connects to the stand. I would suggest people break down their griddle about once a year to look at this and have some high temperature paint to use after cleaning the whole grill.
A splash of water, a quick scrape, and a slather of oil. That’s what I do right after I pull the food off. Takes less than 1 minute and then you are ready to eat with the family. Don’t leave that dirty griddle until after you’re done eating! It’s easier to clean when it’s hot. That water will boil off and help deglaze and sugars. I also like the last coat of oil to go on while the griddle is still hot. Helps keep that layer of seasoning! I love my griddle!
THANK YOU!!!!!! Just got a 22 adventure ready, I’ve seen the “level 3” cleaning articles but couldn’t find much to tell me what to do if it’s a very simple clean. After my first seasoning, I did chicken quesadillas on mine and when I was done I just wiped it down with paper towel to get the crums off and it still looked perfectly seasoned and clean so I left it at that, didnt add more oil but there was already oil from my cook. This article helps a ton! Very easy article and will make my life much easier. It sounds like what i did was correct but i didnt add more oil. However, there was already thin layer of oil and gridle is clean so i think i kind of did what you said in article without thinking about it. But at least now i know for sure lol. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Catching one of your articles by chance is what Inspired me to buy a Blackstone. I bought the 28 inch and it went together nicely until I went to attach the burner plate which will not align with the holes on the base. Blackstone has not replied to my inquiries so I’m returning it. Pity, I was really looking forward to it.
Less fluff and more how to clean and why to do it this way. This isn’t an As Seen On TV 30 minute infomercial hosted by Billy Mays. I don’t care how good the grilled cheese sandwich is. I just wanted to know how to clean the griddle that Blackstone manufacturers and figured I’d go right to the source. Smh. If it turned out to be just a 3 minute article, then freaking great, it was just that easy. The Blackstone branded 10 piece Cleaning Kit I bought had separate how to clean instructions. One set for the scouring pad and another set for the pumice stone tool. Which one do I use? Do I use both? Do I use one tool for one type of cleaning and one for another? Unhelpful instructions in the box. According to this article, I didn’t even need to buy the kit at all and wasted my money. At least I decided to not buy the $50 Blackstone branded cleaning kit in the cheap pleather bag. The article was about maybe halfway useful. The cleaning process needs to be explained better. I just wanted to know the how and the why without the As Seen On TV Billy Mays vibe.
A long handled wooden griddle scraper is a lot easier, does a better job, and is much safer. Also starting with squirting some water before you scrape gets a lot more up. Pro tip: use coconut oil to lube up the griddle after cleaning as it can take high heat for when you use it again. It also taste better and is healthier than seed oils. Never cook your food with canola, peanut, sunflower, or corn oils. That stuff is poison.
I must be doing it wrong🤔 Everything was going great with my 22″ until I had a stubborn accumulation of “stuff” that resisted removal by scraping. I tried some water (less than shown in the article) on a warm surface and presto, my 22 warped so bad as to be virtually unusable ( it did however get really clean) I have a new cook top on order (out of stock at the moment) but am concerning that it will warp again by the application of water to a hot surface. Looking for some advice. Thanks
Great information. I just bought my first griddle and used it once. Worked great. I did all of the steps to prepare for the next cook. My concern is between bugs and moisture in between cooks. Do you just throw some eggs down on a griddle that’s been sitting without wiping it off or lightly cleaning it first? I took a paper towel and lightly wiped it and the paper towel is dirty or has residue on it. Is that ok? Or are we just to turn the griddle on and preheat to burn off any residue and go with that? Just don’t want to get food poisoning or anything. Thanks.
Sir I just got my Blackstone 36inch griddle, 7/11/23, as I was perusal another one of your articles on how to season the griddle. you mentioned removing the sticker on the side table, I had stickers on both the side table and griddle, I used a scraper to remove the sticker the on the griddle, my question is do I used soap and water to remove the glue residue that was griddle before I season it? I need your help cuz I wanna cook
I have a way that utilizes chainmail that I got from Amazon. It’s about 6×8″. After I scrape and wipe on a level 3 clean I put it flat on the surface and quiet the water onto the chainmail. Then use to ga to slide the chainmail around on the griddle. It picks up food and oil that may be left. Then I quickly wipe again with a paper towel before finish with oil. I have a small stainless bowl to place the chainmail in. Fill it with hot water and I have a concentrated degreaser that I add just a small amount. Swish it around and rinse. Either hang it to dry or roll it in a paper towel. If at home I drape it on the top level of the dishwasher. It really works great.
I seasoned my new 36″ blackstone griddle and just cooked my first meal on it, which was about 12 burgers and eight Brauts. When cleaning the grill while hot right after cooking, everything came off except for on the right side it seemed like there was black chard spots on my griddle that wouldn’t easily scrape off with my scraper and water so I wasn’t sure what to do to get it to be a smooth oiled surface like you have in the article again before I cook on it next do you have any suggestions, basically it just looks real blotchy in one little section on the right where some of the brauts kind of stop initially when I put them on the grill
Thanks for tips I just tried cooking on mine for first time and did not oil it and burgers stuck and didn’t know how to use I feel dumb now but anyways I got it all scrape off and got my grill seasoned oil and done everything step by step and I just put egg on and it stuck so I guess am I post to put a little oil on while I cook I’m so confused and I’m thinking about tomorrow re scrubbing it and re seasoning the grill. And hoping I get it done
Great article .Bought a 4 burner Blackstone a couple days ago. Just seasoned it. Probably cook in it tomorrow. This answers my questions exactly. Should I go ahead and shut the flames off when I start cleaning or wait until it’s scraped and wiped…or actually wait until the oil re-seasoning has burned off? Thank you.
Thanks for the tips. Just got my Blackstone about a month ago . May/2024, did the First Blackstone seasoning five, six times smoked off, did burgers did chicken did bacon now did breakfast Saturday afternoon. First time pancakes came out… Great! The cleaning and the tips are essential for me. Just starting off trying to find that good non-stick/ oil combination, currently using avocado oil. Just cleaning tips are spot on. Thank you. Look forward to more of your vids.
Todd, How do you keep from everything being black? I started cleaning like you show but everything had dark oil on it the next time I used it. Now I clean a “little” longer and when I start it up next time, I let it heat up until it stops smoking. Then oil and cook. No more black oil in food. Everybody shows clean up, nobody shows startup. Am I doing it right or wrong? Respectfully, Kevin
We have a Tailgater the griddle does not have a hard cover (hood) . We do have a grill cover. My question is do we need a hood cover? Our blackstone is stored on our back porch that is not covered. We have seasoned it but when we take the cover off it’s has some rust on it. Any help would be appreciated.
You make it look pretty simple, probably because it is. Just got a 28″ Blackstone today … it was my uncle’s who passed away this spring. Estate was selling it off, so it’s staying in the family. He actually custom made a steel grate for it so they could use it like a camp stove and put pots and pans right over the burners. I think he mostly used it that way … because the griddle itself looks like it MAY have been used once. There were a couple of dark spots, but I don’t think it ever came up to temperature. LOL Cleaned it with some soapy water and a steel scouring pad, then cranked up the heat and seasoned it black. May have to break it in with some breakfast tomorrow if the weather isn’t bad. 🙂 Can’t wait to try making stuff on it!
When I see this spot on my griddle that still looks like food is on it does that mean I didn’t get all the food off? Can’t send a picture but hope I am making sense. This is the first time cooking on it after doing the first seasoning 5x the day before and then cooked a bunch of onions like someone suggested, Trying to get that slick black seal
I just recently started cooking on the griddle. I’m still getting used to it. I learned the other day that coconut oil is a bad idea. I didn’t realize it had burned until we ate and everything tasted like burnt grease. I then figured out why it was smoking more than it had before. I saw you use olive oil with cleaning. Can I use it to cook with? I feel like that will smoke and burn too. I started using beef tallow. Which is great for certain things, but maybe not for all things like pancakes.
I see tons of articles using paper towels on their griddle surface…..either for simple cleaning or re-coating the thin layer of oil. When I do it, I constantly get paper towel residue all over the surface…. why is that? I use really good paper towels… the Viva Signature Cloth brand. Is that it? Do I need to use a cheaper brand of paper towels? It is so frustrating trying clean up the food…. then having to clean up the paper towels 🙁
It is pretty easy to keep the grill clean. Bold statement: After using mine for over 5 years it is a MYTH that you ever really achieve a non stick surface. I believe this is what discourages many BlackStone users. This article even proves it. IT IS CLOSE, but it can hardly be called “non stick.” So, new users, just realize that yes you can cook eggs, and basically whatever, but you will not get your grill no matter how carefully you season it, to a surface which is “non stick.” Knowing this, you can realistically cook, and know there is going to be some steps to take. This article, in my opinion shows items that are very easy to clean. Most of the time it will take longer, and most of the time, you will always need water, and frankly in order to sanitize your griddle after cooking, you should.
Thanks for your GREAT how to articles. Just bought a 36 blackstone, Getting ready to season it so we can use it this evening. I have a question, but not on cooking or seasoning, but the construction. I’m thinking about replacing the pan that supports the legs, I assume its for accessories, and replacing with 2 angel irons so I can move the LP tank under the griddle on the left side. With the tank at the end it keeps the folding shelf from folding down completely. Where we have space to store the griddle, makes it hard to fit. Do you see any problems with doing that?