diff --git a/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/produceBlockBody.ts b/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/produceBlockBody.ts
index c6752912731a..0400acc75e5c 100644
--- a/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/produceBlockBody.ts
+++ b/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/produceBlockBody.ts
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ export async function produceBlockBody<T extends BlockType>(
           if (forkSeq >= ForkSeq.capella) {
             // TODO EIP-4844 Remove this when the EC includes `withdrawals`
             if ((blockBody as capella.BeaconBlockBody).executionPayload.withdrawals === undefined) {
-              console.log(
-                "In Capella, but the EC returns an execution payload without withdrawals, assigning empty array"
+              this.logger?.warn(
+                "In Capella, but the EC returned an execution payload without withdrawals, assigning empty array"
               );
 
               (blockBody as capella.BeaconBlockBody).executionPayload.withdrawals = [];
@@ -201,24 +201,11 @@ export async function produceBlockBody<T extends BlockType>(
           }
 
           if (forkSeq >= ForkSeq.eip4844) {
-            // TODO EIP-4844 Remove this when the EC includes `withdrawals`
-            // if (payload === undefined) {
-            //   (blockBody as capella.BeaconBlockBody).executionPayload.withdrawals = [];
-            // }
-
             const blobsBundle = await this.executionEngine.getBlobsBundle(payloadId);
 
-            console.log("Got blobs bundle from EL", blobsBundle);
-
-            validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments(
-              payload as eip4844.ExecutionPayload,
-              blobsBundle.blobs ?? [],
-              blobsBundle.kzgs ?? []
-            );
-
-            console.log("validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments thinks this is valid!");
+            validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments(payload as eip4844.ExecutionPayload, blobsBundle.blobs, blobsBundle.kzgs);
 
-            (blockBody as eip4844.BeaconBlockBody).blobKzgCommitments = blobsBundle.kzgs ?? [];
+            (blockBody as eip4844.BeaconBlockBody).blobKzgCommitments = blobsBundle.kzgs;
             blobs = blobsBundle.blobs;
           }
 
diff --git a/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments.ts b/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments.ts
index 14acb079a948..75ae0151d9b3 100644
--- a/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments.ts
+++ b/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/produceBlock/validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments.ts
@@ -23,31 +23,17 @@ export function validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments(
       `Error validating execution payload during block construction: Blobs length of ${blobs.length} did not match KZG commitments lenght of ${blobKzgCommitments.length}`
     );
   }
-  console.log("validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments: lengths match");
 
   // assert [blob_to_kzg_commitment(blob) == commitment for blob, commitment in zip(blobs, blob_kzg_commitments)]
   blobs.forEach((blob, index) => {
-    try {
-      const computedCommitment = blobToKzgCommitment(blob);
-      if (computedCommitment !== blobKzgCommitments[index]) {
-        throw new Error(
-          `Error validating execution payload during block construction: KZG commitment supplied by execution client does not match that computed by Lodestar, at index ${index}`
-        );
-      } else {
-        console.log(
-          `validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments: blob at index ${index} has a matching commitment.`,
-          computedCommitment,
-          blobKzgCommitments[index]
-        );
-      }
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.log("validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments error in blobToKzgCommitment", e);
-      console.log(typeof blob, blob);
+    const computedCommitment = blobToKzgCommitment(blob);
+    if (computedCommitment !== blobKzgCommitments[index]) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Error validating execution payload during block construction: KZG commitment supplied by execution client does not match that computed by Lodestar. At index ${index}. Computed: ${computedCommitment} but blobs bundle contained ${blobKzgCommitments[index]}`
+      );
     }
   });
 
-  console.log("validateBlobsAndKzgCommitments: KZG commitments match");
-
   // assert verify_kzg_commitments_against_transactions(execution_payload.transactions, blob_kzg_commitments)
   if (!verifyKzgCommitmentsAgainstTransactions(executionPayload.transactions, blobKzgCommitments)) {
     throw new Error(