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OxyClean in your dishwasher for grate cleaning?

eenie meenie
eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I want to clean my grates and my ring. Thing is......I'm tuckered out from egging. I am able to fit my XLG grate and 21" grates and my ring diagonally into my dishwasher. They are really gunked up from the BBQ burned on BBQ sauce and grease. I was thinking of using OxyClean in my Bosch diswasher to facilitate enzymatically getting the gunk off. Is this OK or stupid?
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  • AZRP
    AZRP Posts: 10,116
    I'm not familiar with Oxi Clean, but my dads girlfriend put dish washing liquid in his dishwasher and flooded his house. If it doesn't make suds or foam it should be alright. -RP
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  • Darnoc
    Darnoc Posts: 2,661
    Put your golf shoes on or throw some sand around on the kitchen floor.Cause you are going to need it.
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  • eenie meenie
    eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
    It sayes you can use it in HE front loaders, so I assume it is low sudsing.......that being said, I really don't want to foolishly experiment.
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    enzymes?

    oxyclean is hydrogen peroxide in solid form. well, it turns INTO hydrogen peroxide.

    can't see what the issue might be, except oxidizing (rust).
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • eenie meenie
    eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
    Stike, you're right......surfactants and hydrogen peroxide. I can't read the fine print. B)
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    no need to buy it for other uses. just use hydrogen peroxide....
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Little Chef
    Little Chef Posts: 4,725
    Eenie....Are you way too tuckered to do a clean burn? A good load of lump, light it, load everything in the Egg, and let it RIP!!! Open the vent, take off the top. Don't even have to tend to it, and all that crap on your grids, and the inside of the egg, will be nice and clean! ;) Let it burn until the fuel runs out! (I'd be terrified that those chemicals could do something to the grids...and THAT would suck.) :(
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  • eenie meenie
    eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
    Hi Little Chef...........I was going to do a clean burn, but the last thing I fixed were the drumettes and I cooked them direct with just a little bit of lump (ala fishlessman). I then had to go over to my nephews home and did not want to do a high temp burn while away.............I suppose I could do one now. I thought I remembered Little Steven saying it cleaned grates really well (I can not attest to my memory), but I don't think he used it in the dishwasher. You're right though, I guess I'll do a high temp burn off.
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    "those chemicals" are hydrogen peroxide, whic you can pour into your mouth and which is commonly used to disinfect meat! hahaha

    remember the guy a while back who spilled hydrogen peroxide on his pork butt and threw it outr, and everyone was telling him he was very lucky not to eat it?

    that was maybe six months ago.

    hydrogen peroxide breaks down to oxygen and water, and one of the recommended uses is as a mouth rinse or vegetable/meat cleaner. hahaha

    chemicals aren't always bad.

    last night i rinsed some dirt of my youngest son with some dihydrogen monoxide.
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
    I would think there would be some comments about the use of dihydrogen monoxide.

    GG
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  • Little Chef
    Little Chef Posts: 4,725
    Dihydrogen.....H2............ :whistle:
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  • eenie meenie
    eenie meenie Posts: 4,394
    I just took a shower in the stuff! Sweet. Sorry, can't post any pics :blush::lol:
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    dihydrogen monoxide has killed way more people than hydrogen peroxide. but i know how to handle it.

    it can eat through an iron bar, but the kids haven't been harmed yet. i don't let them kids play too much in it when it's bath time. just enough to get them clean.

    people should know that when you go thru a car wash, one of the reasons they make you roll your windows up is so that you don't inhale any dihydrogen monoxide. it's almost always fatal when inhaled, and yet, the frikkin carwash squirts it all over your car and everything. i think CWM ought to come on here and explain how, in good conscience, he can do that to people.

    what's the world coming to?

    i just checked my can of coke and it's even in that....
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • BobinFla
    BobinFla Posts: 363
    stike wrote:
    last night i rinsed some dirt of my youngest son with some dihydrogen monoxide.
    Nasty stuff, dihydrogen monoxide, usually known as DHMO.

    http://www.dhmo.org/

    Be careful out there.

    BOB
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    it's pretty dangerous stuff. but if you know how to handle it, it can be virtually harmless ;)
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Griller
    Griller Posts: 88
    I've read that a lot of folks visiting Mexico have experienced severe intestinal distress due to mild consumption of this potentially dangerous substance. Thanks for providing the link - we need to spread the word! ;)
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  • Baby j
    Baby j Posts: 148
    I've soaked racks before in water and fabric softener sheet. Loosens up the stuck on gunk. Just let them sit in it over night.

    baby j
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    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    eenie meenie,

    I do soak a lot of stuff in Oxi-Clean when really crudded up. I haven't used it in a dishwasher and have no idea about it. I always soak stuff a long time though.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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