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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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You can use the flat edge of anything with a little leverage to pry a bottle cap off using your fingers as a fulcrum beneath the cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0ZkABVqjQ

if you have sturdy (ie like volkswagen/audi/bmw) keys, you can use a key in a similar fashion

Bic lighters are exceptionally good for this (one of the important life skills I learned in college).

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

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Yup, what everyone else said: rust is fine. At least it's preferable to chunks of chrome coating :) Argentine grills are not coated. If you want to keep them from rusting, you just grease them a bit with the remains of the meat (you usually don't even need to do that) and clean them up next time around. If you are really concerned about the rust, you can always coat the grill with vegetable oil (just take a paper nap…

I use a coarse sea salt that is a little larger than kosher salt. It works out better with fish and meat.

True, but is a lot more costly so you may want to save the fancy stuff for at-table seasoning instead of pre-prep!

http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-the-food-lab-do-i-nee...

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

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Blowing fire as well?

Can't imagine that would be legal. The flame liquids are either toxic and mustn't be swallowed, or they're very high strength alcohol. Also, you have a significant fire risk with blowing fire - a friend once set a pub counter ablaze...

If your doing both fire-eating and fire-breathing in the same act, then it's important to do them strictly in that order.

As for toxicity, you can fire breathe with pharmaceutical grade paraffin(kerosene), if you accidentally swallow some, you'll just experience its laxative effects

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

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I knew it! I was always terrified of those bristles and just don't clean the grill. The coals do a fine job of cleaning it as it is, usually I just quickly scrape it with BBQ tongs.

I don't think cleaning a barbecue grill is about sanitation so much as removing the built up, burnt crap. Heat will take care of the former; the latter could insulate the grill (so your food doesn't cook as evenly) or give an unpleasant flavor.

It also depends on the type of grill. Many common gas grills have thick bars with a grease channel, which would trap more gunk than thin rods common on charcoal grills.

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

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Shouldn't the manufacturer of these brushes be held responsible for such issues?

The answer to this depends on information not present in the article, and is probably not possible to answer without an actual lawsuit. Are the manufacturers taking reasonable steps to avoid the problem? If so they're probably not responsible.

If there are internal emails at the company saying "well our testing shows it might kill people but we'll save 2 cents per brush if we accept weaker wire attachments" then sure. I doubt it's that clear cut.

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

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Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?

Our kids in a standard German school has one whole week devoted to learning circus tricks and acts. At the end of the week, they put on a show for the parents and the local community. Money raised from the ticket sales goes back to the school. The kids loved it, and so did the parents. They did things like walking on glass, eating fire, trapeze and other crazy acts.

They've got socialized medicine, so they don't need as much insurance.

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

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I 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.

Hahaha you need to print this article and place it where she will "randomly" run into it.

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

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Our kids in a standard German school has one whole week devoted to learning circus tricks and acts. At the end of the week, they put on a show for the parents and the local community. Money raised from the ticket sales goes back to the school. The kids loved it, and so did the parents. They did things like walking on glass, eating fire, trapeze and other crazy acts.

Sounds like an insurance nightmare.

My kid went to welding summer camp when he was 8. 12 kids, one instructor; they learnt welding, brazing, soldering, other stuff I don't know the English for. Everyone had a good time and made some amazing things. Nobody suggested there was anything to worry about, but then again those parents wouldn't have signed their kids up. But I never met German parent who were particularly paranoid.

German kids videos and books can be really good too, like the 'was ist was' series that, say, really shows you how internal combustion engines work. I say "can be" because there's a lot of crap there too.

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