I got this grilling/smoking mat from one of our members to test for him. I told him I would post my results here good or bad and he agreed.

I have been using an aluminum mat for several years now. In fact I have one for every rack.  I thought I would test them against each other today because I had to precook a ton of bacon for a breakfast I’m doing at work tomorrow and the smoker seemed like the best place to do it.

Here’s the food:
Here we have the sliced pork belly bacon and Canadian bacon:


and for the house a pork loin stuffed with cornbread crumbs, onions, red peppers, celery and lots of provolone cheese!


The rack is a bit smaller than the grates but the mat can be purchased in any size you specify even round. I asked for 20 x 14 mats for the Smoke Vault.

My old stand by racks:


The new Non-Stick mats


Installed in the smoker:


Bacon on the rack on the top grate:


Bacon on the second and third grates on the Mats:


The cheese leaked out of the pork loin all over the Mat – this is going to be a real PITA to clean!


What a sticky mess on my grates:


And cheese cooked in all over the mat:


OoooOOOooo that’s hot but it peels off nicely!


I threw the mat in the sink and the cheese came off just running water on it! It cleaned up really nice:


When cleaning up after the bacon I had to d a good bit of scrubbing with the scotch brite sponge pad on the aluminum sheet but the mat came clean with a light mop with the sponge.

Another thing I found really great. When I try to move the aluminum rack I burn my fingers every time, but I can’t grab the thing with oven mitts on. The mat doesn’t get hot at all! I picked it up bare handed and dumped the finished bacons in a bowl. Big plus IMHO!

It’s was also strong enough to pick up the pork loin and carry it from the smoker to the kitchen – no problem.

This is a really good product and I give it my stamp of approval and a high recommendation! I will be get a few more f these for the other grates and for my other smokers as well!


Oh I almost forgot ... here's tomorrows supper!

Great review! Thanks!

Now drop the hammer, and tell us were we get them and how much.

lookin' good deb. i see something like those for sale on tv all the time but they're disposable.

nice review.  so you can pick up the mat when the smokers at 225? not hot at all?
I'LL TAKE TWO!!

thanks Deb.

ok guys and gals   the grill mats are  reusable  food grade  dishwasher safe nonstick  mats  they are made to order and  have a temp threshold of 450degs. if you have any questions please  e-mail me  cost of the mats are again based off the size of your smokers  we even make them for all the green egg users  if you look at debis  mats i beleave  that size is around 7to8 dollars we can cut ti fit any smoker  thanks  any questions  feel free to ask  .. email or post if debi say its ok .. im not looking to get any body in trouble   

I'm sure Scott can hook you up Squeezy.

Squeezy wrote on Sep 10^th, 2008 at 5:31pm:

squeezy im sure we can ship you some mats  might be a bit of shipping   but   we can work with you on that  im sure

scott1181 wrote on Sep 10^th, 2008 at 11:44pm:

I'll measure the grills 2nite... thanks!