Are BBQ Grill Mats Safe to Use? – All Things You Don’t Know about Them

 

Table of Contents

 

1. What is BBQ gril mat?

    1.1 Popular Thickness

    1.2 Popular Color and Dimension

2. Why are BBQ grill mats useful?

3. What is PTFE/Teflon?

4. Are BBQ grill mats toxic?

5. Tips on usage of BBQ grill mats

    5.1 Approprite distance between the grill mat and flame, and appropriate temperature

    5.2 No oil or butter on grill mat

    5.3 Don’t use wire brush to clean the grill mat

6. TEKFAB BBQ grill mats

7. Conclusion

8. More Insights

    8.1 Are BBQ Grill Mats Safe to Use? – All Things You Don’t Know about Them.

    8.2 What is the Difference between PTFE Coated Fiberglass Fabric Belt and Mesh Conveyor Belt?

    8.3 Open Mesh Fabric Belt VS Stainless Steel Belt, Who is Winner?

 

What is BBQ gril mat?

 

BBQ grill mats, also called grill mats, are made of PTFE fabric cutting into desinated dimensions. When it comes to PTFE fabric, it is made out by impregnating the high quality fiberglass fabric with PTFE (Teflon) dispersion, then heating it under high temperature. Cut the finished PTFE fabric into specific dimensions, and then BBQ grill mat comes. BBQ grill mats are widely used in outdoor barbecue and picnic, and are growing more and more popular over the past few years.

 

 

Popular Thickness

0.2mm(most popular), 0.1mm, 0.3mm

 

Popular Color and Dimension

For BBQ grill mats on Amazon, Alibaba, Made-in-China, the most popular color is black. For dimensions, the most frequently seen dimension on B2C shops is 40*33cm(15.75*13inch).

 

Why are BBQ grill mats useful?

 

As mentioned above, BBQ grill mats are made of heavy duty PTFE fabric, in this repect, the former would own all the advantages of the latter. Just like descriped in the product page of PTFE fabric, it owns the features of high temperature resistant, non-stick, easy-to-clean, namely, BBQ grill mats undoubtedly owns these advantages as well.

PTFE Fabric

 

BBQ grill mats bring you a perfect barbecue experience in the following aspects:

 

1. It ensures your health. When using the grill mats, the food would not stick to the surface of BBQ grill mat due to that it is non-stick, in this way, it allows you to make the most of the oil from the meat or Bacon, you don’t need to use more oil, which is absolutely good for your health.

 

2. It allows you to cook more varieties of food. Due to the special structure of grill, it is hard to cook the eggs, or other liquid or soft food on it, the grill mats cover the grill upper surface, then make it possible.

 

3. It rids you of the heavy clean of grill. The grill mat is used between the food and grill upper surface, it helps prevent the food from contacting the grill, in this way, after the barbecue, it takes less time to clean the grill, and for BBQ grill mats, they are very easy to clean with only water. Also, it brings longer lifespan of the grill.

 

Generally speaking, the BBQ grill mats are useful in terms of health, barbecue expreience, and prevention.

 

What is PTFE/Teflon?

 

According to Wikipedia:

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon by Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938.

 

Polytetrafluoroethylene is a fluorocarbon solid, as it is a high-molecular-weight polymer consisting wholly of carbon and fluorine. PTFE is hydrophobic: neither water nor water-containing substances wet PTFE, as fluorocarbons exhibit only small London dispersion forces due to the low electric polarizability of fluorine. PTFE has one of the lowest coefficients of friction of any solid.

 

Polytetrafluoroethylene is used as a non-stick coating for pans and other cookware. It is non-reactive, partly because of the strength of carbon–fluorine bonds, so it is often used in containers and pipework for reactive and corrosive chemicals. Where used as a lubricant, PTFE reduces friction, wear, and energy consumption of machinery. It is used as a graft material in surgery and as a coating on catheters.

 

Are BBQ grill mats toxic?

 

The fact is quite sophisticated, shortly speaking, the BBQ grill mat itself are safe, non-toxic, for it, we have achieved the test report of LFGB and FDA.

 

However, the maximum temperature under which the PTFE fabric or BBQ grill mats could resist is 260°C(550°F). Once the temperature of grill exceeds the breaking point, the characteristics of PTFE would be broken, and release poisonous smoke, and it is the unchanged fact of PTFE Teflon material, even if the product from the world’s NO.1 factory can’t escape from the rule. In the following part I will share some tips on how to use the BBQ grill mat correctly.

 

Tips on usage of BBQ grill mats

 

Approprite distance between the grill mat and flame, and appropriate temperature

Some consumers complaint that the bbq grill mat was on fire during the BBQ process. Actually, for different fire-resistance levels, there would be different performance. In terms of our BBQ grill mat, it is better to control the distance of BBQ grill mat and flame/burning coals at 15cm, under this distance there will be both good barbecue experience and safe operation environment. In all, high temperature resistance to 260℃ doesn’t mean it can’t be ignited, remember to control the temperature, we will never cheat the consumers just for more sales value.

 

 

No oil or butter on grill mat

Oil or butter on the BBQ grill mat will sharply increase the possibility of flame. Our BBQ grill mat is heat-conduction, which could fully supply the required barbecue temperature, making sure the food is cooked.

 

Don’t use wire brush to clean the grill mat

Some consuemrs complaint that the BBQ grill mat was broken after being cleaned by wire brush. We usually recommend that consumers clean the BBQ grill mat with only dish soap and soft bristle brush, by the way, there are also many consumers who used the BBQ grill mat only once per piece, they thought there was no need to clean since the package of our BBQ grill mat has 10 pieces in 1 bag usually.

 

 

TEKFAB BBQ grill mats

 

Our factory, Jiangsu Bocheng, has over 10 years experience in manufacture of PTFE fabric, adhesive tapes, belts, food grade BBQ grill mat, gas range protector, silicone baking mat.

 

As the pic shows, our BBQ grill mats are packed 6 pieces in one color box, also we are able to customize the color box for consumers based on enough demands.

 

 

Conclusion

 

In conclusion, are grill mats toxic, or are they safe to use? The bottom line is that they’re safe, as long as you follow the guidelines we’ve listed here. In truth, they’re no more dangerous than any nonstick cookware. Once you’re familiar with the properties of the material, it’s easy to see why you should be careful.

 

Best wishes to your BBQ expereince in advance.