Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by odonnellryan » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:29 PM UTC

karlkatzke wrote: post #305

odonnellryan wrote: post #225

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Fire, man. Just let the fire clean it. Never saw the point of wire brushes unless you're leaving food on the grill when you're done with it.

I think a lot of people don’t let their grill get hot enough. I know I have problems with cleaning my smoker racks (and my wife won’t let me run them through the dish washer) so I have to throw them on my charcoal grill when I’m heating it up.

Yeah, probably. Charred food is not good for you really, but it's going to be on there anyway after you cook on a grill no matter what (unless it's like, a George Foreman...?). I can't imagine the bit of carbon on the grill from the last session would ever cause more harm than normal charcoal!

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

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Post by garfieldnate » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 9:28 AM UTC

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…

In Japan they use brushes made with broom bristles (search for エニシダ根のブラシ). They are very hard and great for scraping. At that point, though, I'm not sure how much better it would be if you swallowed a piece.

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

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Post by therealdrag0 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

mikeleeorg wrote: post #293

ransom1538 wrote: post #261

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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 a little skeptical of this advice, so I did some online searching. There are a bunch of articles with anecdotes about this working, but here's an article that seems to have a bit more substance about this method: https://www.tastingtable.com/cook/national/how-to-clean-a-gr...

Substance? All I see is "Onions have natural antibacterial properties, which is why this works," which doesn't relate at all to the function IMO.

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

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Post by bradstewart » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:17 PM UTC

purple-again wrote: post #94

bradstewart wrote: post #45

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A meat tenderizer?

Moments like this are exactly why I came out of my shell and started communicating with people again. I googled that, confirmed you are right, confronted my wife, and now I own a brand new (very old) meat tenderizer in the garage.

Works wonders on fajita meat (flank or skirt steak).