I worked in a plating factory. We did BBQ grills at one time. After seeing all the chemicals they dip into, I don’t use them. Cleaners, hydrochloric acid, nickel, zinc, brite dip, and dirty rinses
Meant to say BBQ grills go through nickel then chrome. Since they don’t get baked after plating, the acid is still in the steel
Just to be clear. The company you worked for put chrome or chrome-like plating on BBQ grill coating surfaces? The cooking surface on our buck fifty cent BBQ grill is cast iron. The warming rack above it might have some sort of chrome like coating.
Our range appears to have chrome plated baking racks but you don’t actually cook directly on them. You always have a cookie sheet, muffin pan, loaf pan, roasting pan, etc. that the food product is in actual contact with.
Today, the many styles of cooking pans are either bare metal or have a food safe nonstick coating. You may recall that, in the days of King Teflon, there were frequent warnings about discontinuing use of pans that had damaged coatings. The coatings now are much harder and more durable.
Correction: first sentence of my previous reply: coating = cooking. G.. D… autocorrect.