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Absolutely! If you are concerned about smoke staining your cast iron (especially enameled cast iron) you can spray a light coating of cooking oil on the outside of the pan which will facilitate easy cleaning of any smoke residue.

You certainly can, since all you really need for seasoning cast iron is oil and heat. However, properly seasoning cast iron is a multi-step process involving three different temperatures. We find it immeasurably easier to do our seasoning in our kitchen oven. Proper seasoning does not generate smoke as many would have you believe so there is no need to do it outside. However, if you do find it desirable or even necessary to season your cast iron outdoors in your kamado-style cooker, we would do the first two steps (heat to 200°F and add the oil, heat to 300°F and wipe all the oil off) indoors with your oven. Then you can take it outside and do the final seasoning (bake at 400-450°F) in your cooker.

Another reason that we would avoid seasoning cast iron outdoors in a barbecue cooker is that you must be careful about allowing ash to get on the seasoning oil before it polymerizes. You don't want any foreign materials or particles getting into your seasoning and possibly interfering with the polymerization process.

Properly seasoning cast iron is a multi-step process involving three different temperatures. We season all our cast iron in our kitchen oven. Proper seasoning does not generate smoke as many would have you believe so there is no need to do it outside.

Flaxseed oil for seasoning cast iron is a recent fad. You certainly can use flaxseed oil to season cast iron, however you need to use the right kind of flaxseed oil and use the correct procedure lest you end up with brittle flaking seasoning on your cast iron.

There is no such thing as a "place setter" or "placesetter". The actual name of the accessory being referred to is "plate setter". At AUPLEX BBQ, we usually refer to it as a heat deflector.See below.

The Heat Deflector is an essential accessory for any Kamado-style BBQ grill. Made from high-quality ceramic, it sits between the charcoal and the cooking grid to create an indirect cooking zone. By blocking direct flames and diffusing heat evenly, it transforms your grill into a convection oven — perfect for low and slow cooking, smoking, baking, or roasting.

You can use it in two different positions, legs up and legs down. The first photo below shows the Heat Deflector legs down ready to be used for cooking pizza. You would simply place the pizza stone on the Heat Deflector and now you have accomplished two things. First, you have an additional layer of ceramic between the pizza and the fire which allows for better temperature regulation and fewer burned crusts. Second, you have raised the pizza stone up to the level of the opening of your cooker which allows you to use a peel to slide the pizza in and out of the cooker with ease.

The second photo below shows the Heat Deflector legs up for indirect cooking. As you can see, you can place a drip pan on the Heat Deflector and then put the grid on the legs of the Heat Deflector to hold the food.

The AUPLEX BBQ company sells Heat Deflectors for all sizes of grill. Needless to say, they will also work in any ceramic cooker that is the same diameter as the corresponding Egg. You can order these items directly from AUPLEX BBQ in Fuzhou,Fujian by calling them.

No. We also make cast iron Heat Deflectors. You can know about one in our website of Cast Iron Heat Deflectors.