Tinfoil drip tray fire and black smoke

[Festis]

My large tinfoil drip tray is black and full of burnt oil and grease from cooking ribeye steaks
When it went to 500 degrees it was smoking like crazy
Thoughts

 

[Slimpicker]

Some guys here it MELTS at those high temps... so if you need use that high temp, then take the foil out first

 

[Don C]

My large tinfoil drip tray is black and full of burnt oil and grease from cooking ribeye steaks
When it went to 500 degrees it was smoking like crazy
Thoughts

I get the same thing with the drip tray liners

The gook on there just burns up at those temperatures instead of draining off --- & produces all of that smoke.

But, I have never had anything "melt".

Next time, I will put a disposable pan on the Traeger drip pan to catch everything.
Then I will remove the disposable pan before going to the high temp.

 

[midwest]

How often are you changing the liner?

 

[BobbyQ]

Other than the seasoning I tried 500 once to reverse sear some rib eyes. Almost ended in disaster. I won’t use my IW above 325.
If you check out some more threads here you will find that a lot of us have had similar experience.