Help settle a bet
After every use. It’s to keep rain and dust and other detritus off the grill so it’s ready to go when you are. If you only put it on at the end of the season you’re likely to have a rusty grill covered in dirt way quicker
It has its own metal cover I lift up to use
The bbq lid is not a cover, it is part of the cooking apparatus.
That lid is there to trap heat during cooking. Protecting it is important too.
In that case at the end of the season
What an absolute waste of bandwidth.
Hmm quite
Covers just trap moisture under them.
I’ve had as many rust out with a cover as without. They certainly don’t help.
Every use, unless you live in a desert.
Then you’re just creating a high humidity zone
You put it somewhere with a roof when your done. Those covers trap moisture.
I cover after every use, after cleaning it
Every use.
UV light makes exposed plastic brittle. Mine would also get that gross pine sap coating if I didn’t cover it. Humidity isn’t a concern in the northern prairies, so even a decade old it has no rust despite being covered after…almost every use.
The words BBQ and Grill are used interchangeably where I live but either way this would remain true.
UV light makes exposed plastic brittle.
Plastic on a Bbq???
Not arguing with your point though.
How rainy is your area? If it rarely rains, you don’t need to cover it.
Even in a rainy area they don’t help.
I’ve had (and my siblings and friends) as many rust out with a cover as without.
In a rainy area they just trap moisture after the rain stops (high humidity areas).
We don’t bother anymore.
this is highly location and circumstance dependent. Like we just had storms with possible hail yesterday. If you had started using it you might want to throw on the cover at least depending. If its completely out in the open with no cover at all then you should throw the cover on I would say. If its in a place with a kinda roof above it then you can be lazy and just throw it on if the weather looks bad or whatver.
I actually never completely close it, unless I’m cooking. Once done cooking, I leave it open to cool, clean it, and the leave the lid propped partially open.
It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there. I don’t like my hamburgers that spicy.
But yes, I do this after every use. How much effort is it to just cover it? Why wouldn’t you?
It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there.
This sounds like a problem that has a solution already baked into it.
Sounds like popcorn.
if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there.
I don’t want to live where you live.
