I’m learning new stuff all the time. Here is a great, quick, and non-toxic way to clean your grill, and you can easily do this minutes before a cookout. (Please don’t try to tell me that it is OK to leave a carbon crust on your BBQ, it is not!)

You need:

• A bucket of water
• A long handled grill brush — the kind with metal bristles
• Tongs
• A piece of aluminum foil the size of your grill surface

Clean it:

1. Heat up the grill — higher than you generally would want to use it.
2. Put the foil over the grill surface, covering all of the grill bars, and let it sit for a few minutes.
3. Using the tongs, remove the aluminum foil from your grill, and immediately dip the long handled brush in the water and scrub the grill bars. Keep dipping and scrubbing, but the burned-on crud should almost instantly come off the grill.

It makes a lot of steam, so do not lean over the grill when you do this.

Now then, back to the party!

Kevin : Tools, Ideas We Wish We'd Thought Of
June 11th, 2006

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