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What can I use to clean metal?
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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