Do I keep my FEC 100 to clean?

You can certainly do what you like, but why go to that trouble.

We're talking the inside right?

To me, it's like a cast iron skillet, the seasoning is a good thing.

I let it get all seasoned up and leave it that way.

I have a scraper that I use to get "chunks" off the wall.

I clean the grates routinely

I clean out the grease pan each use, the side drip tray and the big drip shield each use.

I'm with SmokinOkie. The only add on: I clean the excess pellet ash from the fire pot and use a 6" metal scraper to remove ash & grease from the bottom of the cabinet.

My FEC started holding temps better once the insides darkened up. I don't know if it was age or the darkened insides but I'm not planning to find out. So I just clean as the two above have taught me.

I'm with Smokin, the racks get cleaned each use. The ash is sucked out with a shop vac. I bought a piece of the clear plastic tubing, flexible stuff, from Ace hardware. One is has duct tape wrapped around it until it can be shoved into and seal the hose on the vac. It sure makes getting into the fire pot easy. We foil the bottom of the unit and the grease shield. Makes clean up a lot easier. We scrape the sides and clean the grease tray each cook. In the bottom grease pan, we put a disposible pan there for big cooks.

I guess im to much of a neat freak. Thanks for the info. Cookin tonight. Butts and Brisket on at 1am. I will try to download some pics.

Thanks Slim