I have a wire brush now just wanted to see what’s out there to clean the grates better
by Major-Alarm-9704
20 Comments
Thisbymaster
Metal mesh brushes are suggested instead. Getting one of those wire brush pieces in your food is a serious problem.
blind_stone
Just get a wire brush and be done. They did a news story on it like 5 times and now everyone eats a wire brush bit and dies. Nonsense garbage as to how many grills and idiots seem to kill half the population with it. Get off it.
Hotshot081
I have a grill daddy and have been pretty happy with it.
***BBQ Daddy***
aauie
While the grill hot-warm, crumple the clean part of the foil you just used in your cook and scrub as if a brush on grates. Will knock away 70%+ of the crud away. Water spray bottle helps too
BeerSlayingBeaver
Grill daddy is the BEST. I got mine at Costco. They work amazingly well.
PullStringGoBoom
While your grates are still hot, throw a wet rag/old towel on there and push it around with a pair of tongs.
ElChupathingy
Can confirm grill daddy goes hard
Tropez2020
1/2 onion.
Killjoykarl10
Grill daddy here love it will be getting the Costco one for my blackstone.
Dizzy-Bother-2209
Got the bbq daddy and it’s great. Ever since I saw a case of someone that ate a wire bristle and it infected them I threw mine away and didn’t look back.
I use the scraper on the back of my brush to knock the gunk off the top. If a lot of gunk builds up between or under I use the same scraper to knock off the big chunks. Cleaning more than that is just cosmetic.
kebmpb
Why clean all the goodiness off?!? You think Wafflehouse cleans their grills? Heck no! That’s why it tastes so good 😎
dubie2003
Avoid the brush versions. The bristles can come loose and can make their way into your food and cause you a trip to the ER.
I have the brush daddy and while it works great, it’s a pain as you need to have a bucket (old coffee container) of water to dip it in.
My go-to is to hit the grates with a squirt bottle of water and then use a spatula upside down to scrap away anything on the grate.
If they are bad enough that the above does not work, I will pull the grates prior to my cook and hit with my electric pressure washer and some blue dawn.
RedCliff73
I have a knockoff version of the one pictured. Its good. I still use a wire brush too though.
Remember all of those people that were hospitalized after ingesting wire from a wire brush that was in their food? Almost killed a bunch of people, remember?
Yeah, me either
HeHateMe115
“And go”
Packaged_Fish_Boxing
I use scrap white pine and oak I have around.
turbols3
Had a nice Kona steel wire brush from Amazon. Used it for a few years thinking “it won’t happen to me” I check it this spring and was able to easily pull several steel wires off it completely. Immediately threw it in the trash and got a grill daddy.
Correct-Mail-1942
This isn’t a race, don’t ‘and go’ us
That said, grill daddy or similar is good, knockoffs exist on Amazon that are just as good.
20 Comments
Metal mesh brushes are suggested instead. Getting one of those wire brush pieces in your food is a serious problem.
Just get a wire brush and be done. They did a news story on it like 5 times and now everyone eats a wire brush bit and dies. Nonsense garbage as to how many grills and idiots seem to kill half the population with it. Get off it.
I have a grill daddy and have been pretty happy with it.
***BBQ Daddy***
While the grill hot-warm, crumple the clean part of the foil you just used in your cook and scrub as if a brush on grates. Will knock away 70%+ of the crud away. Water spray bottle helps too
Grill daddy is the BEST. I got mine at Costco. They work amazingly well.
While your grates are still hot, throw a wet rag/old towel on there and push it around with a pair of tongs.
Can confirm grill daddy goes hard
1/2 onion.
Grill daddy here love it will be getting the Costco one for my blackstone.
Got the bbq daddy and it’s great. Ever since I saw a case of someone that ate a wire bristle and it infected them I threw mine away and didn’t look back.
BBQ Daddy
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Scrub-Daddy-BBQ-Daddy-Grill-Brush-Bristle-Free-Steam-Cleaning-Scrubber-810044131147/325797401
I use the scraper on the back of my brush to knock the gunk off the top. If a lot of gunk builds up between or under I use the same scraper to knock off the big chunks. Cleaning more than that is just cosmetic.
Why clean all the goodiness off?!? You think Wafflehouse cleans their grills? Heck no! That’s why it tastes so good 😎
Avoid the brush versions. The bristles can come loose and can make their way into your food and cause you a trip to the ER.
I have the brush daddy and while it works great, it’s a pain as you need to have a bucket (old coffee container) of water to dip it in.
My go-to is to hit the grates with a squirt bottle of water and then use a spatula upside down to scrap away anything on the grate.
If they are bad enough that the above does not work, I will pull the grates prior to my cook and hit with my electric pressure washer and some blue dawn.
I have a knockoff version of the one pictured. Its good. I still use a wire brush too though.
Remember all of those people that were hospitalized after ingesting wire from a wire brush that was in their food? Almost killed a bunch of people, remember?
Yeah, me either
“And go”
I use scrap white pine and oak I have around.
Had a nice Kona steel wire brush from Amazon. Used it for a few years thinking “it won’t happen to me” I check it this spring and was able to easily pull several steel wires off it completely. Immediately threw it in the trash and got a grill daddy.
This isn’t a race, don’t ‘and go’ us
That said, grill daddy or similar is good, knockoffs exist on Amazon that are just as good.
1/2 onion or wood spatula