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Regular cleaning and care for your Evo Centric 20E cooking surface will keep it looking and functioning it’s best.
The cook surface is designed to hold a fi ne layer of cooking oil creating a ‘seasoning’ on its surface. This seasoning promotes a
non-stick cooking surface and is easily maintained.
Caring for Evo’s cook surface is much like maintaining cast iron cookware. When the black oil-seasoned steel cooking surface
requires cleaning, there are a few basic cleaning techniques to use. For quick and routine cleaning between preparations, a metal
spatula works for removing the majority of surface debris. For tougher areas or where sugars glaze the cook surface, pour a small
amount of warm water on the soiled surface while the grill is warm and scrape the debris away with a spatula. Heat the cooking
surface to a high temperature and allow the sticky debris to become brittle. Once the debris is brittle, use the spatula to remove it.
Afterwards you will want to wipe the cook surface with vegetable oil again before cooking.
To condition the Evo cooking surface, you should use the grill cleaning kit supplied with your grill. The grill cleaning kit contains a
professional 3M-brand grill pad handle, grill cleaning screens, and grill polishing pads. Use the polishing pad after the grill cleaning
screens to achieve a smooth black oil-seasoned cooking surface for the most delicate foods and applications.
To clean the cooking surface: Place one gray cleaning pad and one cleaning screen under the pad, with the screen against the
cooking surface. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil on the cook surface and scrub the surface in a circular motion. The gray
cleaning pad allows excess oil to be absorbed and the cleaning screen scours the cooking surface of carbonized debris. When
fi nished scrubbing, wipe the surface down with a paper towel or cotton terry cloth towel.
The stainless steel drip pan and spill over area surrounding the cooking surface is designed to capture food debris and drippings
from the cooking surface. We recommend cleaning the drip pan after your grill has cooled to prevent the possibility of touching a
hot cook surface. The drip pan is easy to wipe out with soap and water using a sponge or cotton towel.
Never immerse the unit in water or spray the unit with high pressure water or cleaners. Never use abrasive
cleaning pads or cleaners on the stainless steel surface, as these abrasive cleaners with scratch and damage
the units external surfaces.
You can use the Centric cooking surface similar to the burners on a stove top. Adjust Evo’s heater elements to control the
temperatures of the cooking surface “heat zones.” Evo’s circular grill top is divided into two distinct zones. The center control
panel knob controls the “inner heat zone,” which is also the inner circle of the cook surface at approximately an 11” radius from
the center of the cook surface. The outer control panel knob controls the “outer heat zone,” which is the outer circle of the cook
surface. Because the cook surface is made of heavy steel, it takes approximately 10 minutes from a cold start to completely heat
the surface. With a pre-heated cook surface, if you adjust one of the heater elements, you will have to wait for a moment before
the heat zone adjusts to temperature.
Cooking Surface Maintenance
Centric 20E Heat Zones
