@NFLHITMAN there's always gonna be just a touch of surface rust,but the restoration kit does help,also be sure to keep your griddle coated between uses
@@lucaswilkinson8398 I did watch the video but it says in giant words in the middle of the video saying watch me mess up my Blackstone. Everyone saying that she scratched it and ruined it is literally just pointing out the obvious
Think about it. There are a few “secret” strategies that contentors use to increase the likelihood of audience engagement. One is to SAY something that is obviously incorrect in the video so that it practically guarantees someone leaving a comment to correct you. Another is to DO something so dumb that not only will people comment to give u proper instructions, but to also comment about how dumb u gotta be to do the thing. This vid is kinda smart bc she also verbally admits that it was pretty dumb but she showed it anyway just yo get folks talkin.
@@woodcrafter7361 lmaoo why else would she put a grinder to it?? someone clearly told her to and she listened and trusted them. she took your advice exactly and it got her here
Years ago, I was a fast food cook. And I had to clean one 3 times this size every single night. Use a big brick that you can hold in one hand, a big 3M scrub pad, and 120 grit sand paper sheets. Brick, pad, sand paper. Wrap the brick and pad with the sand paper in such a way that you can hold it together with both hands. Get the grill as hot as it can get, and douse it with Sprite. As it's boiling and steaming, carefully sand it with the brick assembly in a uniform manner. Typically, it's a push-pull motion. Repeat all steps until you are left with a flat, smooth surface. You might have to use a few pieces of sand paper. My grill was almost a mirror surface and cooked like a dream. Have no fear. You can even repair the damage you did with the drill. Happy fixing!
Well, this was in a fast food restaurant. Never tried anything vinegar based like pickle juice. But I think the sugar was counterintuitive. Instead of making a muck, like you think it would, it bonds to the stuck on foods deep down. And allows you to scrape it all off.
Old Fashioned Great grandparents Cast iron pans and deep pan and grill and Blackstone grill requires hot oven and vegetables oil seasoning 2 times and that is it or buy some Black Stone pan and grill cleaner and cast iron cleaner are biodegradable to be used while camping and hiking and fishing picnic and home used buy it at BASS PRO Shops and Walmart Supercenter stores camping department section. It real easy.
Why did she skip Walmart Supercenter Camping section and outdoors department and BASS PRO Shops camping department section and Bass pro shop employee can actually help her out with Blackstone grill and Cast iron pans and grill. It really easy .
If you have access to an oven that will fit your cast iron, that is the best way to ensure an even 100% coverage season. This worked great with my 17" griddle on my camper, but since this is next to impossible with the 36" griddle, I used a blowtorch to get the edges :)
Eeeek, you put permanent scratches/gouging into the cast finish. Absolutely the wrong sanding attachment and tool for the job. Maybe save up for the weber slate now.
It’s not cast. It’s just cheap stamped out carbon steel. Maybe 1/8 thick. Those gouges weren’t deep at all either. I get it…initially it was an eyesore and understand people freaking out but it’s fine. It’s a hunk of steel. Just heat that shit up and cook something on it man! No big deal!
@@jimdarhower4945yes and no. They were deep, you can still see them after being re-seasoned. But yes, still will be able to cook food. Though sauces and oils and other stuff is going to overcook and burn in them scratches. I feel like you’d appreciate a cook book my uncle wrote lol. Rabbit on a Shovel (aussie bush camping style cooking)
@@Henry_The_Goatthey weren’t deep at all they just look deep cus if the finish that was taken off. I have had black stones come to me with gouges taken out of them and they were able to be fixed. This is a easy fix that would take 30 minutes
Why? She'll just ruin that one, too. By the way, it's not cast iron. It's made of 3/16" stamped and welded mild steel plate. It can be repaired, but she made the resurfacing job a lot harder to fix than had she done it right the first time.
Order it online and / or spray non stick coating till you get the desired thickness and then use crisco or lard Instead of oil and then season to your liking and allow to cook at medium low for about thirty minutes or untill the lard is completely dried up should be alset after that repeat the seasoning process as often as you like to keep the flavor you enjoy
Same. 27. Dont jne shit abt grilling beyond hank hill stuff. And some stuff on youtube. But im 99.99999999999... % sure if NEVER....EVER HEARD of anyone SANDING A GRILL. .....never. not any single kind. Unless i dunno ur makin a wooden hutch for some crazy reason but thats not part of this equation Why the fuck qnd she fidnt even sand easily. I dont knw shit abt sanding but i knw theres Flatter sander thingys Why the fuck did she get a round one tht does not look like its made for working a glat surface. I have so many fuvking questions. Did she google? Is #1
shes not its now broken and can rust since the black layer off the metal is a protection layer from rust and more and a scretch protection she gonna have to get a new one
@@proffseterik2580it’s literally not broken. sanding the black stone is a pretty standard practice when necessary. she just didn’t do a great job at it. you would are slow lmao
@@proffseterik2580 It can be fixed, but she made the job a hell of a lot harder than had she done the resurfacing job right (which includes none of the tools or methods she used).
Grill is ruined cause she sanded it. Basically scratching top layer off. It’s like she scratched the hell out of a Teflon pan and now she wants to keep cooking on it.
Nah, bless your hear is for like, "oh there a little dumb, but their heart is in it, they'll get it eventually" this is a who tf raised you to think SANDING anything you cook off of is a a good idea?! How dumb are you?! I was baffled, I thought this was a parody at first
Bless her heart.. But little tips for cleaning.. 1..turn grill on low or med heat.. 2..light oil and a grill brick or soft green scrubber pad.. 3..scrub away,then turn grill off,scrape debris and dirt into the grease catcher. 4..use lemon or lime juice and scrape the juice into the grease catcher. 5..wipe off and polish with light oil and drain your grease catcher into proper container,and dispose into proper trash or grease dumpster and you are all set to cook again! Have a good one!!
Here’s a tip. High heat, let it smoke off all the oil. Hit it with a scraper to get off the large chunks, then wire brush it. Rinse with water, high heat to burn off the water and THEN low heat and add oil. Hope you see this and it helps.
Thank you. Everyone else just roasting her. & you actually helped her without insulting her. Bless you 💖 we all gotta start & learn somehow. Called trial and error. I'm sure she'll never make this mistake again. 💚
@@dalereeves3098 this is true, only think is that stone for me doesn’t like the little warped sections or corners. But whatever works best for you. As long as we grill good, all is good.
Darling DARLING NEVER EVER DRILL OR SAND IT, you treat it like a cast iron pan. If you really want to go the rough route ,use a copper scrubber after you use raw onions and baking soda and apple cider vinegar...then rinse and reseason it
Black stones are not cast iron, they are cold rolled steel. It's OK to sand it if necessary. I'm doing it to mine now and I have no issues, it's coming out great.
While its still hot (after you've turned your grill off) you can pour lemon juice on it and it will lift all that grime off it, and then just use a paint scraper to get it off, a grill brick and hot water to "sand" your surface, then reseason it. Its litterally how they been cleaning flat top grills in restaurants for decades.
@@draphtketchum9364 Certain parts of mine have rusty areas. Ideas? Also my 2 burners on the side will not work correctly either. The flame just goes everywhere, the second will not light.
Good on you for just owning your mistakes. Love everyone who is telling you the mistakes you made when you clearly owned up to them. What the hell is happening to people. So cool you got out there and tried something. Failed. And learned what not to do in the future. That’s life!!!
😂😂 I’m cracking up cuz Tori ….what?!! Your blackstone looked just fine! Nobody was worried about a blacksone top. We are here for your blackstone recipes. 😂 I hope you can buy just a new top part. You tried hun ❤️
@toejamr1 what? It was a MISTAKE. We all make them, in second though if making a mistake enough to make you hate someone maybe you are better off unsubcribing.
Tip from a professional kitchen. Cover the entire thing in coarse salt and heat it up (on high). The gunk binds to the salt and then you can season it again
I like doing that with my cast iron stuff. Not sure if I have seen that in the professional kitchen though. Can imagine that is a ton of salt over the course of a service
Wire brush attachment on my drill worked great.stripped to shiny bare metal. Re-seasoned with 6-7 coats of avocado oil. Clean it, oil it after every use.
Use a handheld mapp gas torch. Don’t sand down anything. You can also put it in a campfire to burn off anything, it will take it down to bare metal in 4 hours. Then use the mapp gas torch to season the whole thing. Think of seasoning as baked on grease. If the grease is sticky then use a blade scrapper and burn off the rest.
It’s easy enough to season the top. Next time just clean it with an SOS pad it’ll do just fine and get everything off that you need that is dirty. Also, I found using a propane torch to do around the outside while it’s curing makes things much easier and more evenlyseasoned
Never scrubbed a grill? Never scrubbed anything before? Brillo and pads for grills that let you apply pressure. Throw water on it while it’s hot enough to almost steam it off. Too hot and it evaporates and doesn’t carry away grease and bits or the water spits at you too much and you get tiny burns. All fun.
genuinely my reaction😭. funny cs i had seen other black stone videos mention a black stone mom that fucked up her grill nd juss _knew_ it was her, didn’t think it’d be thisss bad tho😭😭
Buy what is called a grill cleaning brick. You can buy at a restaurant supply store or order off Amazon. While the grill is hot, put a little oil on the grill, not too much, and spread evenly with brick. Then, in a sanding motion top, bottom, top bottom, clean the grill. NEVER go sideways. Only ever up and down. This will evenly clean the grill. It might even fix the mess you made by sanding. A palm sander, which is much cheaper, would have been better with black sanding paper that is 400 to 500 grit. Hope this helps.
I used to work at a restaurant with a flat top grill. We had to clean it every night. First we’d pour a cup of water across the hot grill top and then use a metal food scraper to scrape everything that came up into the scum collector (?). Sometimes we’d do it a second time. Then we would squeeze on a packet of grill cleaner. The texture was like a runny gel and it was about 1/3 cup of cleaner. Make sure you spread it across the top, let it bubble, then scrape it off. Finish with another coat or two of water/scrape off, then turn the grill off. I’m sure flat top grill cleaner exists and you could do something similar! Good luck
I second this! I used to work at a restaurant and the cooks would use this exact method to clean off the flat top, it looked brand new after every clean. They used Scotch brite gel cleaner and a grill cleaning brick! Hope this helps ♥️
@@raekitty19oh yeah, I forgot about the grill cleaning brick! It’s been 10+ years so I’m surprised I’m remembered as much as I did. We had a scrubby brick that was made of steel wool I think. It was attached to a handle and that’s what we’d use to smear the cleaner around to cover the whole grill/scrub the cleaner into the grill surface
Get an angle grinder. I just went though this last weekend. The sander wasn’t cutting it. The angle grinder with an 80 sanding/ polishing wheel worked great.
Metalworker here. The damage is already done but for the future: NEVER try to grind a surface with a round hand guided tool. That top will need a surface grinder after that treatment. Get a cheap belt sander or oscillating sander, they have a flat working area but round tools when they are not guided by ground mounted machines always screw up surfacing jobs.
I'm not gonna bandwagon with all these people calling you out for ruining this thing. I'm gonna thank you for sharing a fail (that's is totally fixable BTW) and showing the truth of being a DIY-figure-it-out person. We mess stuff up, then we fix it.. that's how we learn. Get yourself a 60 grit sanding block and put some elbow grease into those edges and season again.
People aren't hating about the DIY break&fix method... It's the lack of research and critical thinking. It's the lack of pause after realizing she got the wrong tool. It's the poor execution even with that drill attachment. Sure you can pat everyone on the back at every turn to keep em going, but sometimes you gotta tell someone to "Stop, think...then act" 🤷♂️
this isn’t fucking around and finding out DIY Style. This is fucking around and finding out because you don’t know how to properly clean the grill. Sanding a grill has never been a number one go to cleaning method?
@@rickeykoga2312 I was given a rusted out Blackstone last month and when I researched it, I found that sanding it was my best chance at fixing it. I already had the tools to do it correctly, so no biggie. She thought she could get by with a drill bit. That didn't work. She appears to have ended up in a mindset of "well, I already goofed it up, why not keep going maybe I can dig myself out of the hole without dropping more money." it's a mistake, for sure. But one she'll learn from. And anyway, it's her property. I don't understand why people get so upset over things that don't belong to them. She didn't do irreparable damage.
Nobody is on a bandwagon honey. Lets not get ahead of ourselves now. People are just pointing out the blatantly obvious mistakes that could’ve been avoided with some common sense, and research. 👍🏻
The edges can be taken care of by the use of a torch. You rarely cook on the edges anyways. ( no heat there ) but for cosmetic purposes, a torch can handle that area.
Use oil and onion. The oil will season it, the acid in the will break down grim. Baking soda and vinegar also works. Copper scrappers/sponges work if surface is iron based (it’s a soft metal with less chance of scratching), it aluminum surface disregard.
I'm curious why you wanted to sand off the seasoning to start with? Looked like a perfectly good layer you had built up. Well, that sucks that you didn't get it to turn out the way you wanted. I suppose you can always get a cheapo mouse sander to redo the whole top. The mouse sander is nice to get the edges and corner because it tapers to a point at the head...sorta looks like an clothing iron. Good luck!
Pumice stone and some degreaser would have worked far better. I bought mine used from a guy who thought he ruined his letting it rust from non-use during the winter and fall. I had to scrap all the rust and junk off with a pumice stone and the Blackstone scraper. They actually sell a Blackstone brand cleaning kit that has everything, the phone stone, a holder with handle for the pumice stone to make working with it easier, some scotch brite pads and a handle for them as well, and finally the scraper. But you can buy the griddle top separately if you call the customer service line for Blackstone.
3m makes an orange oil for cleaning the flat top. First heat the flat up to about 300°f pour oil out of packet, let soak for a few minutes. Use a scour pad. Turn heat off, wash thoroughly. Let cool.Once it is sparkling again, polish it, don't season. Wipe with lemon juice then coat with thin layer of oil, done. A grill that looks like that gives an off flavor to the product. If the oil doesn't clean it the sodium hydroxide products are your resort, use as instructed.
Do you know if you can buy one of the lids like they have on the newer models. The older ones didn't have the lids, but I certainly don't want a whole new grill.
Maybe use Easy Off Oven Cleaner in the yellow spray can? I do this to re-season cast iron skillets. Spray it, cover with a black trash bag and then come back to wash it. The lye in the easy off will strip the cast iron
Love your videos. And love watching you cook on your Blackstone. I’m pretty sure you’re going to have to buy a new one. I was nervous watching you do that. You seemed to be taking all your frustrations out on that poor thing 😅
You can save it. Get a block sander and sand it flat and smooth. Use a high grit paper then switch to a low grit. Then just do what you did. The only thing you did wrong is the way you sanded it with the edge of the sander you used.
Some steel wool and oven cleaner would have done just fine. Try seasoning with grape seed oil if you’re not already. It has a higher smoke point and will keep the iron seasoned longer than most oils.
Thanks! I didn’t know the terminology for these videos. Now I know what to call the videos where they don’t take the labels off the aluminum pans before cooking food😅
Honestly I would’ve left the seasoning you had, it looked good. That’s what you want. If you really wanted it off you could probably just turn the burners on high for a good while and that would burn it off eventually so you could then clean it off easily and start over with the seasoning process
Rather than a sanding disk, which you have to hold the drill sideways to operate, get a wire brush drill bit. Ryobi makes one - that’s how I got wood glue off of my clamps.
I think it's supposed to build up seasoning over time, sort of like cast iron. Someone correct me if i'm wrong so I know what to do if i'm missing a step.
Just FYI👻 Blackstone grills are NOT cast iron (an alloy of iron that contains 2-4% carbon, along with varying amounts of silicon and manganese and traces of impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus- per Google). Blackstone’s are actually powder-coated steel. Both work in the same way with the “seasoning” process so you get the non-stick surface, but it isn’t cast iron like a lot of people think🙂
Ok as someone who works cooking on blackstone everyday is clean it with a grill brick once a week when using it after you turn it off put some oil on it and scrub then you also season just by putting a layer of oil on it when you finish scrubbing it and it will stay nice but also seasoned
what restaurant do you work at so I know NOT to come and eat at if you only clean the grill once a week. And yes I do work as a cook in a restaurant and we clean our grills daily, as they should be just like anything else that you cook food in.
@@tieryanayou must be stupid or dont understand blackstones. Stainless steel grills yes but grill bricking a blackstone once a week is plenty and might even be over kill
He's talking about a deep clean with the brick not a daily clean. You don't use a grill brill daily and reseason daily. Too funny how ppl don't know how to clean these...watch a video ppl online. Easy to do!
@@TheRich4187 Actually depending on the use. And with 24 hour use 7 days a week our grills need to be "deep cleaned" at the end of every shift. Which is 3 times a day.
Can probably oil the edges and torch them to season. Part of the issue might be that they arent getting hot enough. Also in the future if you want to strip down the seasoning just use vinegar. All you gotta do is boil the vinegar and scrub it with a normal brush. It will strip seasoning and surface rust away
Everyone is saying it's ruined. She mostly just destroyed the seasoning. Simply start over. Wash with soap and water. Use an orbital sander or a wire wheel and take it all the way down to steel. Re-season and it will be perfect! People are commenting like you removed a Teflon coating or something.
Correct. She hasn't ruined it at all, just left some trails. There;'s no way that girl and that drill has enough power to groove carbon steel in thatshort a time. The disc is the way to go, as I have done half a dozen times in 7 years. Actually, that griddle looked just fine from the get go. If she saw mine, she'd faint. TIP: Girl. Lose the silicone protective cover. It will defeat any oil you put on the surface to keep rust away by trapping ambient moisture underneath. Just use a couple layers of paper towels as a vapor barrier. The paper willl absorb enough oil lto be a perfect solution. Guns don't come new in box wrapped in oil impregnated paper for nothing.
They sell a orange hi temp grill cleaner - stera sheen you use with the grill hot with a steel wool pad and a heat glove. It gets it shining silver every time cover with oil after you use it. I used to use it at A&W every night to clean the grill. It looked brand new every night.
I have a camp chef stove that you can add a griddle top to i have a 2 burner its useful for cooking outside and with big pots that dont fit on kitchen stove
