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Kevin Mullins:
Soak the grill down with a can of oven cleaner, place it inside a plastic garbage bag and let it set for a couple hours or even overnight. Then just wash with regular hot soapy water.

Do this outside, wear rubber gloves and don't breath the oven cleaner fumes.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Peale on April 12, 2008, 06:47:07 am ---You should have been cleaning the grill after each use.  At the very least, every few times.  You're putting food on it, you know.  Bleaugh!

--- End quote ---

Or, just give the grill some Cipro. :)

Toss it and order a new grill (not the whole thing, just the metal grate...).  Then, follow up with proper maintenance.  I spray mine with olive oil before cooking - the food scrapes right off afterwards.

shmokes:
I used to use a little hibachi (no idea if that's spelled right) grill, and after cooling I'd turn it to high, close the lid, and set a timer for 10 minutes, to burn everything into easy-to-clean ash.

I got a cool new grill for Christmas, though, from the in-laws and the grill has a ceramic coating on it.  Instead of burning everything into easy-to-clean ash, it seems to just fuse the stuff to the grill and make it near-impossible to clean.  Too bad.  But if you've just got a metal grill, my method takes all the work out of cleanup.

Jdurg:
Some 80% fuming Nitric Acid will get rid of the gunk, possibly nitrating some of the organic matter, and removing the metal grill quite quickly.   :P ;D

IA1NY:
Simple Green neat. Get or make a pan and let the grate sit in it overnight, then scrub with a green  Scotchbrite pad or steel wool.  Repeat if necessary.  Simple Green is "non-toxic" so be sure to burn in the grate before the next time you use it.

Much luck!

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