I have had mine as soon as they came out. Like previous person, was looking at a 700 and told my wife I wish they would ha ve model with a second shelf and poof there it was. No problems, no paint peeling. (If their paint is peeling how bad a grease fire did they manage to start in it. I had 1...
Mine burned clean and looked fine. I did put aluminum foil on before burn in in case anything did drip but aluminum was clean as well. Could some plastic been left on grates.?