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

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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,836
    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.
    They/Them
    Morgantown, PA

    XL BGE - S BGE - KJ Jr - HB Legacy - BS Pizza Oven - 30" Firepit - King Kooker Fryer -  PR72T - WSJ - BS 17" Griddle - XXL BGE  - BS SS36" Griddle - 2 Burner Gasser - Pellet Smoker
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  • TonyA
    TonyA Posts: 583
    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.
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  • dstearn
    dstearn Posts: 1,705
    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.
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  • hondabbq
    hondabbq Posts: 1,986
    I don't get it. Are these loose bristles clinging to the grids?
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  • fljoemon
    fljoemon Posts: 757
    @Maccool .. i do the self-oven cleaning with my Weber Gasser Cast Iron cooking grids. Works great!
    LBGE & Mini
    Orlando, FL
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    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.  

    "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."
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  • Maccool
    Maccool Posts: 191
    edited August 2014
    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.
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  • scottc454
    scottc454 Posts: 99
    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.






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  • Maccool
    Maccool Posts: 191
    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.
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  • johnmitchell
    johnmitchell Posts: 7,355
    Bump as the summer grilling season draws closer!!!!
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
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  • johnmitchell
    johnmitchell Posts: 7,355
    ^^^😂😂😉
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,625
    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.

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    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!!!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,663
    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.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    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!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,625
    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!

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    I woulda bet a whole lot on @jonessteave-just more $$ to invest in the Churchill Downs Restoration Project Saturday, AKA 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.  Go baby, go!🐎
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    lousubcap said:
    I woulda bet a whole lot on @jonessteave-just more $$ 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? :)=)B)
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • GoldenQ
    GoldenQ Posts: 590
    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.
    I XL  and 1 Weber Kettle  And 1 Weber Q220       Outside Alvin, TX-- South of Houston
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  • Orsi
    Orsi Posts: 29
    Recently tried the ball of aluminum foil.  Worked like a charm and the grill had cooled. Works with both hot and cold grill.  Anything left gets removed with narrow paint scrapper.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    bought a shaved griddled chicken sub this summer cooked on a griddle that had a ss wire in it, there were no brushes on the griddle.  im thinking the store must clean it differently when they close for the night.  
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Begger
    Begger Posts: 607
    NEVER use any brush on a grill.     Your internist will thank you.

    ME?   I turn it UP than use a simple spatule (stainless steel) to bang and scrape.
    Grill comes to near-perfection.      Will ANY microbe survive grill grate temp?    I doubt it.
    And if you pre heat/ ??    No nasties remain to contaminate your fresh grilled whatever......

    In grilling for 50 years?   NEVER an issue that a wire brush was the cure for.....NEVER
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  • Gandolf
    Gandolf Posts: 926
    I use the same Grid Lifter that Mickey uses. Lawn Ranger made it for me must be 25 years ago……still working hard. 

    An aside, my son’s Mother-In-Law gave me a “ Grillbot” for my birthday a couple weeks ago.  I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials. Like a robot vacuum cleaner for grills. Haven’t tried yet but will soon. 

    Thanks again Lawn Ranger
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  • zaphod
    zaphod Posts: 1,012
    I have a v-notch cleaner, but I only clean the day after when everything is cold. I'm too busy eating to clean with the grill still hot.

    Mostly I use the Palmyra brushed from BGE, although I see more and more brands with the same thing at the hardware store. They clean well and the bristle which come off seem to be a decent size that I just brush into the lump basket after a cleaning.

    I once ate a long steel spiral from a scrubby. beware of them as well. It was a "wok based" restaurant that should have been using a proper bamboo scrubber not a steel scrubby.
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    Large BGE, Jonesing for a MiniMax
    The Vegegrilltarian

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