How often do you clean your gas grill?

Question

I'm having an argument with my wife, and we decided that YA would settle it by majority.

How often do you clean your gas grill? I mean take the grates to a sink and scrub them with brillo. My wife wants to do this after each use. I just want to scrub it with a wire brush and burn it after each use for about 10 minutes. Anyway......What do you do?

Answer 1

Don't have a gas grill - use the big green egg. But the issue is the same.

I do what you do. Scrub with wire brush, but I do it the next time I use the grill.

I've never cleaned the grates for the grill the way your wife suggests.

I had an Brinkmans bullet smoker, I used to clean the grates for that in the sink after every use. The smoker never got hot enough to burn the "stuff" off.

I have a chrome holder for doing double beer can chickens, I clean that after every use with a brillo pad - that's a big mess.

Answer 2

I "thoroughly" clean mine once a year. You can turn the grill on "high" and burn most of the crud off. Clean the grates good after each use with a wire brush made for specifically for grills. Your wife must be "squeaky clean".

Answer 3

I clean it before I use it.
I rub the grates with aluminum foil and that usually takes off all the gunk.
Then the heat sterilizes it.
I don't ever take it to the sink to clean it, then I would have the whole mess in the sink to clean up.
If someone did it for me it would be ok though.
I don't use mine very often that's why I do the cleaning before instead of after I use it, I want it to be clean for the food to be put on.
Well, I usually use charcoal and let the remaining heat burn off the grate after cooking.

Answer 4

A grill is like a cooks best pan, you never clean it, just scrape the crap off and burn it.

Answer 5

clean it after you cook, every single time!

Answer 6

what a dork !!!