Many times you may want to cook something other than meat in your Pit. What comes to my mind first are beans. Other suggestions might be stuffed onions, sweet potatoes, rice or even grilled pesto pizza! If you use a standard aluminum pan, it will come out very dark brown and difficult to clean. The easiest thing to do is use some heavy duty aluminum foil rather than a pan. If that is too light duty, then take your aluminum pan and wrap it in foil. When finished, simply discard the foil. If you need something even *more* durable, then try cast iron equipment. It is dark anyway and a little more won't hurt anything! Just clean it well and put it away.