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

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

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Post by windexh8er »

kevinmchugh wrote: post #169
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #165

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What is this "newspaper" of which you speak? Seriously though, i only buy newspapers now when i need the paper for table coverings for craft activities and such.

newspaper is also very useful for chimney starters, the best way of starting a charcoal fire.

Try a Looftlighter (or something similar) if you've never. You don't have to use paper/chimney anymore. I started smoking things about 10 years ago and have tried it all. With regard to speed, ease, and cleanup you can't beat electric. Wax starters are another good option if you're out of range of A/C. I'd put my old chimney in third at this point. I'd rather recycle the paper quite honestly.

I don't cook meats anymore but still use my BGE quite a bit.

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Post by mirimir »

lostlogin wrote: post #223
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…

I wonder if there is a non mechanical way of cleaning it and instead a chemical reaction like oven cleaner. Ideally it would be something that wasn’t seemingly related to a chemical weapon but maybe that’s what it takes.

Hot concentrated sodium hydroxide will do it. Or oven cleaner, if you can't get chemicals. It won't damage steel, but will dissolve aluminum. Ammonia works too, but not as effectively.

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Post by drewcon »

Can confirm this is terrifying. Zero out of 5 stars.

I once pulled a bristle out from between my molars. Thought about it for 5 minutes...realized it was from the grill (was eating a salad made of leftover grilled chicken). Googled “wire grill brush swallow”. Read horror stories. Immediately freaked out. Even used a metal detector like you would use on a beach on my stomach to see if I swallowed more (didn’t work). Spent the week waiting for disaster to strike (it didnt). Immediately threw out all wire grill brushes forever.

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Post by cr0sh »

khedoros1 wrote: post #232
emodendroket wrote: post #229

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I use charcoal, myself.

Fair enough. My method obviously wouldn't work on a non-gas grill, and I'd end up cleaning the grate differently.

You can do it with a pellet grill/bbq too; most of them can get a grate temperature well above 500 degrees, which will do the job. Not as good as propane of course, but easier than charcoal or wood.

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Post by Cyphase »

ransom1538 wrote: post #261
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).

I was at a birthday party at a park on Sunday (ended up getting rained out and we had to move to another location), and one of the guys manning the grill was doing this on the public-use grill. It seemed to work pretty well.

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Post by dboreham »

ams6110 wrote: post #56
dboreham wrote: post #54

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Chicken sticks to it ime. Probably depends on "variables" such as ambient temp, grate diamater and flame height below the grate.

Try pre-heating thoroughly and brushing the grill with oil after it's hot.

Technically you'd be brushing the carbon. I'll try it but I'd expect the oil to sink into the carbon.
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