Clean-up question: The Grill

So I cleaned the cart today, top to bottom, and the longest part of it by far was the grill. Took all removable pieces off and threw them in the sink to soak. Then I took my spray grill cleaner to loosen up the gunk that remained on the rest of the grill. Still, it was an ordeal. Had to spray it several times as well as using my Scotch Brite scrubby pad.

Does anyone have any tricks to make the weekly grill cleaning a bit less time consuming? Appreciate any advice

Hopefully your talking a charcoal style grill cleaning it once a week. Just heat it up and use a wire brush (daily). If it's a flat top (solid), then get some 3M scrubbers or grill bricks..

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Originally posted by Janski
So I cleaned the cart today, top to bottom, and the longest part of it by far was the grill.
Does anyone have any tricks to make the weekly grill cleaning a bit less time consuming? Appreciate any advice

I cook a lot of pork both shoulders and ribs every week and I have alternated between a company that uses steam and me doing it at the local car wash. Frankly both suck. The local company is expensive and the car wash just doesn't do a good enough job.

So a couple of days ago I decided to get out a propane torch that I had bought on Ebay a year ago and hooked it up to a (20lb) small LP tank and I burned off most of the gunk that had stuck to the stainless steel shelves. Then I took it to the car wash and it looks great.

I think I'll clean my smoker this way from now on.

I don't know if this will work for you or not but the less time you spend in your off hours working on your equipment the better your over all attitude will be I promise. When you first start, that time is unimportant but the longer you go without time out or time away from your job the more excited you'll be to start a Monday or the next day. This I promise you is 100% true.

Jack

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Originally posted by Dr of BBQ

So a couple of days ago I decided to get out a propane torch that I had bought on Ebay a year ago and hooked it up to a (20lb) small LP tank and I burned off most of the gunk that had stuck to the stainless steel shelves. Then I took it to the car wash and it looks great.

Yup, I do the same. It's like a portable self-cleaning cleaning oven.

One trick for grills that works is to spray it with oven cleaner and put in in a plastic bag/garbage bag. The more time it is in the more the cleaner softens the gunk. RJF