Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

cbc.ca

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

261–270 of 324 posts

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#261

Post by ransom1538 »

AStellersSeaCow wrote: post #219

When this news first came out, I tried practically all the alternatives. My personal experiences: Wadded up aluminum foil: really does not work well. It gets loose grime off, but anything at all burnt on will take very vigorous scrubbing and possibly result in shredded foil everywhere. Also feels like a huge waste of foil. Wooden scraper: works ok, since it's not flexible doesn't get between the slats well, need to p…

Take a cheap onion. Cut it in half. Flame up the grill real hot. Take an oven glove and rub the onion really hard on the grill. It will sizzle. Mmm. Amazing all the way around.

(Surgeons are super cocky and for them to explain "man this is tricky to fix" ---> I am out).

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#262

Post by cbar_tx »

the trick is to brush the grill before it gets hot. you can always rinse the gunk out of your grill brush but you can't un-melt the plastic that keeps the brisles attached. Give it a quick second brushing after it's heated up, if you want. Since it is already mostly clean, you don't spend as much time loosening/melting your brush. I figured this out when I found one of those bristles on some ribs I made. Fortunately, it was before I put it in my mouth.

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#263

Post by josefresco »

Emma_Goldman wrote: post #248
josefresco wrote: post #50

"Hospitals in the Halifax area are seeing at least one or two cases each week" Wow - that's an incredible rate - I wonder what the national statistics are like?

How are these things not banned? If something is sold for casual private use that predictably leads to hundreds of people having metal barbs stuck in their throat every year, and if the procedure to extract those barbs is sufficiently difficult that it has become recognised as a national problem among surgeons, then there seems to be pretty good grounds for banning it. As this thread attests, there are plenty of alte…

They've been selling these for years - if the rates of failure are so high I don't understand why we haven't heard more about it. Puzzling.

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#264

Post by conistonwater »

_vertigo wrote: post #258
conistonwater wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That approach sounds wrong to me: bristles breaking off is pretty rare already, and inspecting the barbecue for bristles is only as good as your ability to pay attention while doing it, while not finding anything most of the time. People often overestimate their ability to pay attention, because the cost of missing something is usually low and the consequences manageable. People's intuition regarding very rare events…

As the comment you're replying to stated, the man inspects the barbecue, not the food. This seems to me to be easier and less error-prone.

Oh you're right, I read that wrong ("inspect the results"). I still don't think it's a good idea, it's the same problem.

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#265

Post by louithethrid »

AStellersSeaCow wrote: post #219

When this news first came out, I tried practically all the alternatives. My personal experiences: Wadded up aluminum foil: really does not work well. It gets loose grime off, but anything at all burnt on will take very vigorous scrubbing and possibly result in shredded foil everywhere. Also feels like a huge waste of foil. Wooden scraper: works ok, since it's not flexible doesn't get between the slats well, need to p…

Some advice i heard, but not have tryied myself. You need a grill with the grill beeing seperabable into pieces small enough to fit into your kitchen oven. Which hass to have pyrolisis cleaning option. Your grill should be pre cleaned.

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#268

Post by [deleted] »

conistonwater wrote: post #256
Spivak wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you really blame him? The brushes are so apparently so good at cleaning that it's worth his time to inspect the results after than switch to an alternative. It's not like his approach is unsafe. bristle brush cleaning time + inspection time < alternative cleaning time

That approach sounds wrong to me: bristles breaking off is pretty rare already, and inspecting the barbecue for bristles is only as good as your ability to pay attention while doing it, while not finding anything most of the time. People often overestimate their ability to pay attention, because the cost of missing something is usually low and the consequences manageable. People's intuition regarding very rare events…

[deleted]

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#269

Post by gpvos »

firefistace77 wrote: post #260
gpvos wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually he saved it.

I don't know, it's my opinion, but I feel like the /s trend/adaptation has ruined a lot of the jokes for me by being overly explicit and not leaving any ambiguity...where is the fun in that :P

I think on HN the need for clarity is seen as more important than having fun, because misunderstandings can do more damage than fun can create pleasure. This unfortunately limits the number of meta-levels (or ambiguity) you can use in jokes or sarcasm. But I guess it's worth the tradeoff. And actually with a bit of effort you can often have both.

Re: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

#270

Post by cgmg »

numbsafari wrote: post #107
monkeynotes wrote: post #86

How is it that the manufacturers haven't had a class action put their way? I mean, they are knowingly making a product that fails in regular usage in a way that is almost impossible to prevent or detect completely. I'd suggest these types of scrapers be legislated against since they are incapable of being used safely in reasonable intended usage.

Yeah, well, good thing we have OpenBazaar so that people like you won't be able to keep me from exercising my freedom to use a real manly brush to do a real manly job. I'm sure that really offends you, but I'm no snowflake. I can make my own bristle material decisions for my self and on behalf of everyone I cook for./s

> to use a real manly brush to do a real manly job

What does manliness have to do with this?

Post reply on HN