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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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post #22

A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

It's also the canonical method here in Guadalajara.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#34
post #8

Wow! We've been using this kind of brush for decades. I guess we're lucky that nothing happened. I think, though, with proper brushes, none of the bristles come off.

I'd wager it's almost certainly the extremely cheap ones that are prone to this.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#36

It's amusing that CBC headline writers felt the need to use the adjective "Canadian" here.

It's the inferiority complex that has plagued Canadians for centuries. Always in the shadow of the US, Canadians will go to extreme measures to call out if Canada played some role in a news story. Even something like this.

Before I get crapped on, I'm a Canadian myself, so I have first hand experience with this

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#37

I've been using an alternative over the summer: https://www.amazon.com/GrillFloss-Ultimate-Grill-Cleaning-To... Works great. You have to have the round, stainless grill grates.

It looks like that would take a lot longer than I want to spend on that task.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#38
post #22

A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

Nice idea! I'll keep it in mind!

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#39
This is a real problem.

My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress.

On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything clicked and I realized we had had steak on the grill the day that the problems started. She went into surgery and had the grill brush wire removed.

The wire had poked a hole in her stomach, and somehow worked its way out through the abdominal muscles into her belly fat. We are grateful that it exited that way, instead of into another major organ.

Beware.

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