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Clean Burn - What's the consensus of how to do this?

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  • Mattman3969
    Mattman3969 Posts: 10,458
    Absolutely no need to go nuclear to clean the egg. An occasional 500-600° cook will cleans things up just fine.  

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    2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,569
    if you boil water in the egg a couple hours it loosens the crud into peeling tar paper. then give it a 600 degree burn and it easily pops off with a tin foil ball. im fine with nuclear though =) completely ruined a brunswick stew years ago with that crap peeling and falling into the pot, it wasnt just flaking
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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    edited September 2017
    Yeah, that will wreck a party.  Left chili in my CI DO once, never again.

    I think a clean burn depends on how you use your egg.  The fattier, smokier low and slows will build up creosote on the dome.  My bullets do this, as the bbq cooks are dedicated to them.  Have one large as a griller now, the other, a baker, and no buildup whatsoever on the dome or SW caps.

    Just do a pizza or stir fry or hells sear steak planned clean burn with an hr preheat at 550 plus...that should clean things up.  Then follow with a quick Al foil scrub.
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,153
    Anyone who says a clean burn isn't needed hasn't seen @JohnInCarolina's Mini Max. 
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    DoubleEgger said:
    Anyone who says a clean burn isn't needed hasn't seen @JohnInCarolina's Mini Max. 
    That would be a blast furnace burn. 
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    bgebrent said:
    DoubleEgger said:
    Anyone who says a clean burn isn't needed hasn't seen @JohnInCarolina's Mini Max. 
    That would be a blast furnace burn. 
    I am thinking media blast, after the blast furnace. 
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • westernbbq
    westernbbq Posts: 2,490
    Leafblower at the intake vent is your friend....
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