Stainless Steel Cooking Grates

Based on stainless steel woven wire,stainless steel welded wire mesh and stainless steel crimped mesh,Steellong has developed various shapes and sizes of cooking grids.

Cooking grates, also known as cooking grids, are the surface on which the food is cooked in a grill. They are typically made of:

Stainless steel (Usually the most expensive and longest-lasting option, may carry a lifetime warranty)
Porcelain-coated cast iron (The next best option after stainless, usually thick and good for searing meat)

The cooking surface of your grill is one of the most important parts. The material used should be strong and resilient. It should provide good heat transfer and not be sticky. It doesn't necessarily need to be a non-stick surface as in Teflon but food shouldn't stick any more than necessary. Most Gas Grills have either cast iron, porcelain coated cast iron, stainless steel, porcelain coated steel or just plan steel. Now the intense heat of the grill can wear down these metals. Actually the worst thing you can do to a cooking grate is heat it up and then throw cold food on it, but that's how you grill so it will have to live with it. It is however important to keep you grate clean and in the case of bare cast iron to keep it oiled.

Wire Mesh Used For Cooking Grates: Woven Wire Mesh   Welded Wire Mesh   Crimped Wire Mesh

The cooking surface of your grill is one of the most important parts. The material used should be strong and resilient. It should provide good heat transfer and not be sticky. It doesn't necessarily need to be a non-stick surface as in Teflon but food shouldn't stick any more than necessary. Most Gas Grills have either cast iron, porcelain coated cast iron, stainless steel, porcelain coated steel or just plan steel. Now the intense heat of the grill can wear down these metals. Actually the worst thing you can do to a cooking grate is heat it up and then throw cold food on it, but that's how you grill so it will have to live with it. It is however important to keep you grate clean and in the case of bare cast iron to keep it oiled.

Now plain steel tends to lose its temper and start developing chips which make the surface rough and uneven. This leads to sticking. The plain rod type grate is bad so stay away from it. Stainless steel can also lose much of its non-stick abilities and get chipped up but not nearly as fast as the plain steel units. Stainless steel will work well for a long time, but not as long as cast iron or porcelain coated surfaces. Porcelain on the other hand has a nasty habit of chipping away and exposing the metal underneath to moisture and can cause rust, especially in porcelain coated cast iron. This isn't to say that porcelain coatings can be bad, but cheap porcelain coatings can be. If you do have a porcelain coated cooking grate you need to keep hard metal scrapers and tools away from it. A metal bristle brush is okay, but no scrapers