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greenfan
greenfan Posts: 94
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I really need to clean my grill beyond just raking over it with a wire brush. Has anyone ever used oven cleaner? I'm assuming it would work well, but I'm not sure. Thanks for your replies.
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  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    NONONONONO! ALL you have to do is fill your Egg up with lump,light it,leave the bottom AND top vent WIDE open and let it burn for 3 to 4 hours.I let mine go til all the load of lump burns up.If your grates or platesetter are cruddy too just toss em in.It will clean everything.It is known as clean burn. :)
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  • Bobby-Q
    Bobby-Q Posts: 1,994
    Just make sure it is not in your EGG® when you do it.
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  • Scottborasjr
    Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
    No Chemicals in the egg is the rule. Just build a hot fire like Hoss said and burn it for a couple hours. Burn Baby Burn.
    I raise my kids, cook and golf.  When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.
    Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. 
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  • greenfan
    greenfan Posts: 94
    thanks for the quick replies. I was not planning on spraying it anywhere near the inside of the egg. Just on the grate outside of the egg
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  • Hillbilly-Hightech
    Hillbilly-Hightech Posts: 966
    also, a quick, cheap, and easy grate cleaner is...

    Aluminum foil!!

    Just take a decent size piece of aluminum foil (about the length of 2 sheets of paper or so), crinkle it up into a nice ball, and use that to rake across the rods of the grate...

    This seems to work better than most of those fancy (and expensive) "grill brushes"...

    HTH,
    Rob
    Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup... Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee
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  • Brokersmoker
    Brokersmoker Posts: 646
    I hit the hot grid every cook with a grill brush to knock off the heavy stuff followed with the occasional clean burn. I usually just let it go after a cook when I filled with lump prior to the cook.
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  • RU Eggsperienced
    RU Eggsperienced Posts: 1,527
    Hoss is the man - he knows...just follow his rule every once in a while!!

    Note, just cooking a bunch of pizzas will clean up the ceramics and if you leave the grid in there...hey it will clean up too!
    Cheers.....Jerry


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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    I have only had my grill about 6 years, but when I clean it I will probably try a hot water soak first, then maybe oven cleaner.

    I find the fire does a decent job, and if I am feeling particularly Felix Unger-ish I will bit it with a softer brass brush while it is hot/warm

    Be careful with steel brushes on the porcelain grid.
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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