How do you keep your grill clean?

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1. Rub it down with an onion. Works like a charm.

2. Wire brush, I use cast iron grill surfaces.

3. It’s hot and brushed. Good enough.

4. When heating it up, cover it with aluminum foil. Bring it up to high temperature, remove the foil then scrub anything left in it. The foil will incinerate anything left over on the grill. Fold up the foil after it cools down 6 and save it for next time.

5. Lots of variables but I start every season putting the cast iron grates of mine into the oven on “clean”. Then I season them and they are good to go. If there is any rust, I will use sandpaper to get it off (if the oven didn’t bake it off) and make sure to oil those areas well.

   I know they are commonly used but stay away from wire brushes. They are being made more and more cheaply and are leaving behind the wire which gets into food and tears up the mouth or worse if swallowed. They make real heavy duty brillo pad type of brushes that I use after each time I cook.

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7. Before covering it up for the winter, I break it down and deep clean everything but the cast iron with soap and water

8. >but it still looks… unsanitary

   tbf the fire will cleanse it anyway. just brush it.

9. There is no such thing as an unsanitary grill dude.. fire it up, slap some meat on it and bam.. you have yourself the good shit. When have you ever gone “Did you clean that grill?” when you bit into a juicy meat slab?

10. I don’t. That would get rid of the flavor.

11. Prior to cooking, get it good and hot and then brush it. The heat will sterilize it and will dry out the residue making it easy to remove. I hit mine with a folded paper towel and some olive oil after brushing which helps things not stick and will also pick up any residue that didn’t get dislodged. Never had a problem doing it that way.

12. I almost responded to ask Paul Wall until I read the rest of the post…

13. Wire brush most of the time, oven cleaner whenever I feel particularly ambitious about it.

14. I use a cast iron grill. Scrub it with a wire brush between uses, works better if the grill is hot. Do it before and after. Don’t leave it dirty. I re-season the grates occasionally with cooking oil and make a fire in it to cure it a couple hours before using it.

15. Get a grill cleaning brush that squirts out water and scrub the hell out of it while it’s hot.

16. Power washer

17. Scrape it every time. Every few months you clean with Brillo pads.