Frequently asked questions

It doesn’t go anywhere and that was by design. Drains and catch pans are great in theory, but they actually lead to more messes, more cleaning, and can be extremely dangerous in certain instances. Most of your meals won’t leave much grease behind.  If they do, and some will, that is covered below.

When the grease travels through the drain holes, it clings to the steel griddle and can travel horizontally rather than dripping into the pan.  The grease can make its way towards a burner and cause a grease fire.  The dripping grease will also get on the grating and make a mess. A shallow pan filled with hot grease is also capable of causing a severe burn. 

After cooking something greasy like bacon, you will have grease that needs cleaned up.    

· Simply taking a paper towel folded in half, placing it on the griddle where the grease is.

· Take your spatula and press the paper towel down so that it absorbs the grease.

· Scoop up the saturated paper towel with the spatula and throw it in the trash.

· If needed repeat. The surface is now free of excess grease. No pan to miss, drop, wash or store. No greasy underside of the griddle that can lead to a fire hazard.

Unlike your kitchen range, your outdoor grill or smoker was designed with grease management in mind.  So there are no extra pans to hassle with and the drain is positioned to avoid any grease flare ups.

All metal is capable of warping.  Warping is caused through applying excess heat to the metal.  This is the key reason behind monitoring the temperature of your griddle.  Temperatures above 600 degrees will likely lead to warping.  Warping can be permanent.   A warped griddle is not an unusable griddle.

You should never put your griddle in the dishwasher.  Most of them won't fit, but if they do they will rust.

Big Boy Griddles are made from carbon steel and they will rust.  However rusting is prevented through the oiling of the steel.  Should you get any rust, some sandpaper or steel wool will remove the rust., then re-oil the surface.

Big Boy Griddles are made from 3/16" thick steel.  This thickness contributes to its resistance to warping.  The mass of the steel also is key in the heat retention and creating as evenly heated cooking surface as possible.  Thinner/lighter material would easily warp and would have a very uneven cooking surface.

Induction cooktops use magnetic interaction with the cookware to create heat.  Because of the air gap necessary between the griddle and the cooktop to prevent over heating, that interaction is not possible.  Therefor leaving the griddle unheated.