PSA - don't buy cheap grill brushes...

DMW

Maccool said:

Anybody ever put their grill in their home oven and turn it onto "self-clean"?

I tried using a pumice rock "griddle cleaner" for awhile but found that it left a kind of funky residue on the grill. Currently, I mostly use a scotchbrite griddle cleaner

Your egg has a self-clean cycle available. Just pull the dome thermometer and open up the bottom draft door and remove the DFMT.

TonyA

That's a good call with the larger bristles @RRP .. I bought a couple of the wire mesh variety after an article like this came out a couple years ago .. but even those break up after a while.

dstearn

I use a wirebrush now, not a cheap one, however after brushing I soak a paper towel in Canola oil and wipe the grill using bbq tongs and the soaked paper towel. If there were any wires on the grill they would be cleaned off. Plus it keeps the meat from sticking.

hondabbq

I don't get it. Are these loose bristles clinging to the grids?

fljoemon

@Maccool .. i do the self-oven cleaning with my Weber Gasser Cast Iron cooking grids. Works great!

GATraveller

Thanks for the reminder.  I think about that every time I clean mine and say....."But it won't happen to me".  Gonna switch to balled up foil from now on.  

Maccool

fljoemon said:

@Maccool .. i do the self-oven cleaning with my Weber Gasser Cast Iron cooking grids. Works great!

Yah. Could fry it in the BGE at high temp, but it's usually just easier to throw the thing in the oven, set the self-clean cycle and walk away. Gotta clean the oven periodically anyway.

scottc454

Very simple - just check the grate after you brush it for loose bristles. I sure as hell am not going to do a self clean cycle every time I cook something.

Maccool

scottc454 said:

Very simple - just check the grate after you brush it for loose bristles. I sure as hell am not going to do a self clean cycle every time I cook something.

Sorry for the confusion. That wasn't the suggestion. On a day-to-day basis I scrape, then scrub with a scotchbrite griddle cleaner moistened with some peanut oil. Eventually, over time, the insides, crosspieces, and undersides get crudded up to the point where occasional terminal decarbonization is needed. Self-cleaning cycle in the oven has been as effective as other things I've tried for that occasional cleaning.

johnmitchell

Bump as the summer grilling season draws closer!!!!

Canugghead

Thanks, surprised to see you though, I was expecting @lousubcap's buddy jonesey 

johnmitchell

^^^😂😂😉

Ozzie_Isaac

Having served chicken that had a bristle in it, I am super sketchy about anything near my grill grates.  Also why I secretly inspect what my friends are using when they cook for us at their house.

Thankfully, I was the one that got the chicken with the steel bristle and not my kids.  Stabbed me in the gum.  Once I realized what was going on, I tossed all the food and then checked my grill.  There were more bristles stuck to the grate.

RRP

I realize I’m like a broken record, but why does anyone knowing the risks use metal bristle brushes at all? I just don’t get it!!!

JohnInCarolina

RRP said:

I realize I’m like a broken record, but why does anyone knowing the risks use metal bristle brushes at all? I just don’t get it!!!

Society is in decay, Ron, that’s my best explanation.  

RRP

JohnInCarolina said:

RRP said:

I realize I’m like a broken record, but why does anyone knowing the risks use metal bristle brushes at all? I just don’t get it!!!

Society is in decay, Ron, that’s my best explanation.  

Oh, I do believe that as well, John! 

I’d just rather not die from metal bristles making a musical fluke out of my throat!

Ozzie_Isaac

RRP said:

I realize I’m like a broken record, but why does anyone knowing the risks use metal bristle brushes at all? I just don’t get it!!!

Same reason motorcyclists don't wear helmets and people in cars don't wear seatbelts.  Ain't no way that gobnament gonnna tell me what to do and how to live my life!!

Also, that russian roulette chicken is the only fun some folks have.  The superbowl of that is Little Stevens Suitcase chicken cooked on a wood deck with matchlight charcoal on an egg with no spark screen and cleaned by a 15 year old melted wire brush!

lousubcap

I woulda bet a whole lot on @jonessteave-just more $$ to invest in the Churchill Downs Restoration Project Saturday, AKA 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.  Go baby, go!🐎

RRP

lousubcap said:

I woulda bet a whole lot on @jonessteave-just more $$ to invest in the Churchill Downs Restoration Project Saturday, AKA 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.  Go baby, go!🐎

WINK WINK..just between the two of us what pony did you bet the farm on?

GoldenQ

I agree.   That's why I only buy the heavy duty ss wire scrub brushes from hardware stores.       Those that I would use to remove rust or paint.