Welcome to the EGGhead Forum - a great place to visit and packed with tips and EGGspert advice! You can also join the conversation and get more information and amazing kamado recipes by following Big Green Egg to Experience our World of Flavor™ at:
Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Youtube  |  Vimeo
Share your photos by tagging us and using the hashtag #BigGreenEgg.

Want to see how the EGG is made? Click to Watch

Doctors Issue Warning

13»

Comments

  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    edited May 2015
    mahenryak said:
    RRP said:
    During this whole discussion I'm surprised no one has mentioned the seemingly once popular "Billy Bar". I never bought one as scraping each rod individually seemed too anal to me! LOL
    http://www.billybar.com
    Allow me to take a stab at this one:  I find that the 'billy bar' works wonders on my 'mangrates'.  LOL

    Edit: Okay, I don't really own any mangrates but my conscience demands that I admit to owning the infamous Billy Bar.
    LOL - you're a good man & you have the 'nads to admit ownership! Like I said years ago that was extremely popular amongst eggers! 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • jeroldharter
    jeroldharter Posts: 556
    I am a fan of Grill Bricks. I bought a dozen and they last pretty good. I use them on my baking steel, craycort cast iron grate on the Weber, and my various grates on the egg.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • EggHead_Bubba
    EggHead_Bubba Posts: 566
    Jeepster47 said:
    Let me piggy back on your post please.  We threw out all of our wire brush cleaning brushes.  Also threw out the pumice stones ... kept seeing little pieces of grit left on the grill.  That left us with burn it off.  Finally stumbled upon this type of brush:



    They also make a long handled brush with the brillo pad-like cleaning unit.  So, have others tried this brush?  Like it?  Answer the concern expressed in the Doc's warning.
    I stopped by local Ace this afternoon and they ordered one of these for me. Thanks for mentioning it @Jeepster47.

    Rocky Top, TN — Large BGE • Cast Iron Grate & Platesetter • Rockwood Lump

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,528
    Actually just received my new Billy Bar. Great tool for cleaning the grids and you can just shove it into the still burning lump to clean it.  
    @RRP - guess there are not too many of us around, using tools like BillyBars and PigTail flippers...... :)
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Steve753
    Steve753 Posts: 140
    I use a grill floss. You can get them from Amazon. There are no brushes involved.
    Large Big Green Egg
    Weber Gold
    Old Smokey

    San Diego, Ca
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    Skiddymarker said:
    Actually just received my new Billy Bar. Great tool for cleaning the grids and you can just shove it into the still burning lump to clean it.  
    @RRP - guess there are not too many of us around, using tools like BillyBars and PigTail flippers...... :)
    LOL - I still have people think I am pulling their leg when I tell them I use my Pigtail Flipper to flip pancakes!!! Talk about a versatile tool for outdoor grilling and indoor use as well the Pig Tail Flipper is a sure winner! NO KIDDING you none believers!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    edited May 2015
    RRP said:

    LOL - I still have people think I am pulling their leg when I tell them I use my Pigtail Flipper to flip pancakes!!! Talk about a versatile tool for outdoor grilling and indoor use as well the Pig Tail Flipper is a sure winner! NO KIDDING you none believers!
    BTW You can buy a PT flipper via AmaBOMB, or you can deal directly with the company. If you are right handed go to AmaBOMB but if you are left handed buy it direct. BTW trust me the trick to using this handy tool is the flip of the wrist and a lefty can't use a right handed one any more than a right handed person can use one made for a lefty! Here's the link:
    http://www.jaccard.com/Original-PigTail-Food-Flippers_c_62.html
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • clemsontyger97
    clemsontyger97 Posts: 400
    Jeepster47 said:
    Let me piggy back on your post please.  We threw out all of our wire brush cleaning brushes.  Also threw out the pumice stones ... kept seeing little pieces of grit left on the grill.  That left us with burn it off.  Finally stumbled upon this type of brush:



    They also make a long handled brush with the brillo pad-like cleaning unit.  So, have others tried this brush?  Like it?  Answer the concern expressed in the Doc's warning.
    I saw this thing today at Home Depot and almost bought it.   I've been looking for alternative as well, though have been doing well with foil and also one of those grill stones.   I think I will give this a try at least for $5.
    --Because I'm like ice, buddy. When I don't like you, you've got problems.

    KJ Classic
    28" Blackstone
    South Carolina native, adopted Texan, residing in Olive Branch, MS.  Go Tigers.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jeremiah
    Jeremiah Posts: 6,412
    Add me to the aluminum foil ball camp. If it's really nasty, my weed burner makes short work of it as well. No sense in overcomplicating this. 
    Slumming it in Aiken, SC. 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,648
    I used aluminum foil balls tell I looked and noticed all the aluminum material deposited on the grids.

    I use the scrubber pad @Jeepster47 uses.  It works great on hot or cold grates.  Better than my wire brushes ever did 

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • bboulier
    bboulier Posts: 558
    I usually use a small piece of wood (or putty knife) to scrape off the big crud and then put it in a large sink with soap to soak before going after it with a plastic scrubber.   If I am using the gas grill to cook vegetables,  I will put the BGE grate on the gas grill while I start it up at high temperatures.
    Weber Kettle, Weber Genesis Silver B, Medium Egg, KJ Classic (Black)
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I use a wire brush.
    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • KiterTodd
    KiterTodd Posts: 2,466
    nolaegghead said:
    I use a wire brush.
    ! Are you also a BASE jumper?

    ;)
    LBGE/Maryland
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • clemsontyger97
    clemsontyger97 Posts: 400
    Has anyone else used the Earthstone grill stone?   I like it, but kicks off a lot of dust, and doesn't last long.
    --Because I'm like ice, buddy. When I don't like you, you've got problems.

    KJ Classic
    28" Blackstone
    South Carolina native, adopted Texan, residing in Olive Branch, MS.  Go Tigers.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700
    edited May 2015
    KiterTodd said:
    nolaegghead said:
    I use a wire brush.
    ! Are you also a BASE jumper?

    ;)

    =)  @NOLAEggHead also eats uncooked ground beef.  He's a Big Green Daredevil!

    He'll probably be dead by Tuesday.

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Sardonicus said:
    KiterTodd said:
    nolaegghead said:
    I use a wire brush.
    ! Are you also a BASE jumper?

    ;)

    =)  @NOLAEggHead also eats uncooked ground beef.  He's a Big Green Daredevil!

    He'll probably be dead by Tuesday.

    Did he died yet?

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700
    edited May 2015
    GATraveller said:
    Sardonicus said:
    KiterTodd said:
    nolaegghead said:
    I use a wire brush.
    ! Are you also a BASE jumper?

    ;)

    =)  @NOLAEggHead also eats uncooked ground beef.  He's a Big Green Daredevil!

    He'll probably be dead by Tuesday.

    Did he died yet?

    Brilliant post, GATraveller.

    As ever. :|

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,648
    Sardonicus said:
    KiterTodd said:
    nolaegghead said:
    I use a wire brush.
    ! Are you also a BASE jumper?

    ;)

    =)  @NOLAEggHead also eats uncooked ground beef.  He's a Big Green Daredevil!

    He'll probably be dead by Tuesday.

    He is so pickled he will live forever.

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Boss_Hog
    Boss_Hog Posts: 11
    edited May 2015
    I got a ScrapeStations and I like it. The hot grill wears groves into the wood and it works pretty well. 
    SS_1.jpg 215.7K
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    What about the splinters?  They'll poke through your intestines like a medieval flechette.  AIEEEEEE!!!!  Everything can kill us!!!

    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • icunrse
    icunrse Posts: 87
    I never thought of it but it makes total sense that those pieces of wire have been infiltrating my food on my gasser. I threw it out the day I got my egg. Crumpled up foil sounds much safer. 
    Amy 
    Hope Mills, NC
    LBGE, and the only one on the block. My neighbor just got a new gas grill...let the games begin!!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories