First time cleaning the egg

Don't Egg me on,
I use a spatula that is designed for a wok and bend it to a 90 degree angle.Scoop and lift out.

Darnoc,
that's what i did for maybe a year until the handle fell off. hahaha.
cheep bugger that i yam, i finally sprung for the ash tool and found that it reaches almost two-thirds around in the space between the firebox and the body. pretty cool.[p]

Don't Egg me on,
I dust it once maybe twice a year, I'll pull the ring and box out and clean behind them. I'll do a burn-off twice a year to make everything white again, other than that no special tools, I do tamp the ash down under the fire box before every cook just so I don't have to clean it every time

Shop Vac for the eg, Yeah I do that just usually when I finish vacumning the kids sandbox and just before I shop vac the weeds and dirt out of the garden.

Its a grill, its is supposed to be dirty, The only thing I do is scoop out as muh ash as I can, and I occasionally let it burn at a high temp 750º + for 150-20 minutes. I hate to wasting my time cleaning the egg when I could be cleaning the dirt out of my garden.

I disassemble everything, remove the charcoal pieces and put them in a bag of some sort or a bucket.

I use a small straw broom to sweep the ashes and so forth out the bottom vent and catch it all in a dust tray.

I put it all back together, spray cooking oil on the grill, load it up, put in the electric starter and fire it up.

-W

fishlessman,[p]And I wonder what would happen if you put your shop vac into blower mode and stuck the hose into the top of the Egg (sealed enough to prevent blowback?) Ignoring the ash-filled air, which might be handled using a little ingenuity, would it get all the ash out?

Rusty Rooster,
i don't understand the need to completely remove every speck of ash.[p]seems an awful lot of trouble for what? an egg devoid of ash until the next cook?

stike,
It was a challenge thing after reading of others using a shop vac. Since that one time I have only used the ash tool and am satisfied. (and not covered in ash) lol

Rusty Rooster,[p]My college fraternity house had a fireplace in my bedroom that we used to establish a romantic mood as we pursued our goals. I recall cleaning it many days after was used and dumping the ash into a plastic trashcan. Fortunately that trash can was located in a safe area because several hours later it burst into flame. And I emphasize that that was days, not hours, after the fireplace had last been used.