Do commercial restaurant grills use the same?
In my kitchen we use stone grill cleaners to avoid this problem.
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
#52I did this a few months back and replaced it with a "cool cleaning" nylon-based one after I started noticing the extremely tiny metal bristles falling onto my grill. My wife said I was crazy -- today I feel vindicated.
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#53A 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.
Otherwise, if you have fatty meat, you just use a strip of fat in the same way. That's what I do, and I happen to be Argentinian :)
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#54It'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
That and the CBC has always had a nationalistic-liberal slant.
Gets especially sickening when we are involved in minor international politics or troop deployment. Canada this, Canada that. I still hear people chirping about the damn CanadaArm.
More stroking the ego than doing anything of note. (Edit: I am Canadian.)
Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#55A 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.
The Argentinian trick is basically:
1. let the grill get hot 2. rub with something to clean old grit 3. rub again with a chunk of fat (from the meat) for flavor
The "something" in step #2 has varied over the years. Back in the day, my grandpa used to use old newspapers... which of course we know today it's not such a great idea, heh. Onions, half a potato, a corn stalk, even a chunk of brick will do the trick. You just want to make sure you don't have old chunks of stuff clinging from the grill.
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#56Does anyone really need further evidence of "intelligent design"?
Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#57A 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.
Hmm, I always do that, but now when I'm doing it I'll be thinking about Argentinian circus people. Definitely makes it better.
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#58I had no idea this was a problem. I've been using those things for decades. O_o
Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#59A 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.
Fijian here. I assumed that was a trick everyone knew.
Yeah, I'm in the US and I've yet to BBQ with someone that doesn't know this trick.
Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#60A 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.
i like to use a lime/lemon. figure the acidity may help kill off some bacteria with the acidity and the vapor once the grill is hot.