OT - grid washing OCD!

Canugghead

I'll get flamed for this, please play nice!

I habitually soak and clean my grids, except for CI and XL (won't fit laundry tub) grids, long before bbq-wire-brush-bristles-in-the-food incidents started popping up in the news.

RRP

Hey, I won't flame you and I do the same thing from time to time, but here's a handy hint. Go to any good hardware store and buy yourself a replacement metal garbage can lid. When turned upright it makes a nice big, but shallow pan to soak and scrub your grill in! And SWMBO won't get mad when you start cleaning them in the kitchen! And a great product for cleaning is this!

Canugghead

@RRP - great idea, thanks!  will be a challenge finding one large enough for the XL grid though.

RRP

Canugghead said:

@RRP - great idea, thanks!  will be a challenge finding one large enough for the XL grid though.

For it go to a home improvement center and buy yourself one of those big round pans they sell to set your hot water heater in in case of leakage. Only thing with it is you will need to plug up the hole on the side where you attach the drainage hose or get a plug so you can drain it into your sink when done.

henapple

Oven cleaner and pressure washer. ..use balled up hdaf between cooks

cazzy

Yall wash your grids   :-?

Carolina Q

Wait. You're supposed to CLEAN 'em?! Seriously?

Eggcelsior

cazzy said:

Yall wash your grids   :-?

Flame war time!

jimreed777

I tend to open er up after a low and slow and let it hit about 500 and go for an hour or so...that tends to clean off most everything. Other times, I will fire up my cast iron seasoner / bun toaster (the gas grill) and put everything in there for an hour or so and that also reduces most everything to ash on the grids as well.

ME CLEAN WITH FIRE!!

Mickey

Thought that was why you started the fire BEFORE being ready to cook ]

cazzy

I thought all that black stuff is what they called the Flavor Train?????

cazzy

Really...i've been egging for a few years and my grid has never seen a sud.   I always put it face down on the fire ring while it's heating up, then hit it with a foil ball.  Haven't killed anyone yet!   :P

hapster

When you start the egg the next time, either before you cook or after, let the heat and fire do the work...

It's like a self cleaning oven if you give it a chance..

Anything that remains, that's meant to happen to bless the next cook.

cazzy

I spend all my grid cleaning supply budget on meat!!    :@)   3:-O   ~:>

henapple

I pressure wash all my grids whenever I have it out anyway.

cazzy

henapple said:

I pressure wash all my grids whenever I have it out anyway.

I thought that was how the wifey gave you a bath??  

Little Steven

cazzy said:

henapple said:

I pressure wash all my grids whenever I have it out anyway.

I thought that was how the wifey gave you a bath??  

No that's an enema

Little Steven

RRP said:

Hey, I won't flame you and I do the same thing from time to time, but here's a handy hint. Go to any good hardware store and buy yourself a replacement metal garbage can lid. When turned upright it makes a nice big, but shallow pan to soak and scrub your grill in! And SWMBO won't get mad when you start cleaning them in the kitchen! And a great product for cleaning is this!

We could never be roommates Felix

RRP

I use clean grates when assembling cooks inside for cooking classes and for company. While us eggers know an often used grate needs no regular cleaning newbies or potential buyers - at least in the past - have wrinkled their faces, said YUCK! and pick at their food. I find starting with clean grates makes that problem disappear!

henapple

Little Steven said:

cazzy said:

henapple said:

I pressure wash all my grids whenever I have it out anyway.

I thought that was how the wifey gave you a bath??  

No that's an enema


rectum? Damn near killed him.

caliking

Learn something new here everyday. Wash the grid, you say?

Terrebandit

Just brush it off. That's how I roll.

Mickey

cazzy said:

Really...i've been egging for a few years and my grid has never seen a sud.   I always put it face down on the fire ring while it's heating up, then hit it with a foil ball.  Haven't killed anyone yet!   :P

You use a foil ball?

cazzy

Mickey said:

cazzy said:

Really...i've been egging for a few years and my grid has never seen a sud.   I always put it face down on the fire ring while it's heating up, then hit it with a foil ball.  Haven't killed anyone yet!   :P

You use a foil ball?

Yeah, learned it from you!

Eggcelsior

Damn. I thought Mickey had steel balls after his bowling ball in a skirt comment.

Tjcoley

My ManGrates are self cleaning.

Canugghead

Thanks all, I expected this post to generate great ideas and interesting comments, on a slow night. Mission accomplished.

fishlessman

WASH THE GRID......seriously )

Mickey

fishlessman said:

WASH THE GRID......seriously )

I love you man.

BuckeyeBob

I am by no means OCD and have never washed my grids but that egg pic that fishlessman posted would drive me nuts.

Charlesmaneri

I scrub mine from time to time with Brillo and it works great !