Cleaning smoker grids

[eyeguy 54]

Started doing this last year and it works great so thought I'd share. I put the grids on my gas grill on high for about 20 minutes when they are all nasty. Burns it off nice. Then the wire brush lightly.

[nofishfisherman]

Another trick I use I clean grill or smoker grates is to use tin foil. Just ball it up and use it to scrub the grates. It works really well on simple wire grates because the tin foil conforms to the wires.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I only do it on high for about 3-4 mins, and scrub.. no need for 20mins in my opinion.

[eyeguy 54]

Takes longer than that for mine to get hot. :)I turn it to ash. Then it's a piece of cake. So much nicer than taking them into the house and doing it in the sink. Sometimes 10 minutes is plenty but I let them get pretty messy.

[SkunkedAgain]

As others said, I put my grill on high to get the grates hot but rarely do anything to them before cooking. After cooking, I scrub/scrape with wire brush and then turn burners to high for a couple of minutes. That burns most stuff up.

I rarely having problems with meat sticking as it seems that all one needs to do is put meat on a hot grill and don't move the meat until it releases.

[eyeguy 54]

we are talking about taking grids out of a smoker and putting them on a gas grill.

[OnAFly]

I throw mine in the dish washer if they get really nasty. It works good enough. I only do this about every 3rd smoke or so.

[eyeguy 54]

my wife would shoot me...

[OnAFly]

I got rid of the wife, problem solved HAHA!

[SkunkedAgain]

we are talking about taking grids out of a smoker and putting them on a gas grill.

Yup, I missed that.

I used to bring them in the house to hand-wash but that was a real mess and got frowns from Mrs SkunkedAgain. I now use the same technique as on my propane grill. After smoking, I crank the heat to high for 5-10 minutes to clean it out. Then before the next smoke I use my grill brush to clean off the crusties, followed by another high heat cleaning before starting my next smoke.

Maybe I'll have to try your method of searing them on the grill instead

[Greybeard53]

Clean them?

[Getanet]

I was recently watching the Food Network where they recommended covering your gas grill grates in foil and cranking on high for 10 minutes to clean your grill. I tried it an worked awesome - much better than just cranking it on high and closing the lid. Everything basically turned to powder and came off easily with a brush.

I would imagine covering your smoker grates with foil on the gas grill would get similar results.

[eyeguy 54]

tinfoil is for step 2 in smoking ribs, not for wasting on cleaning grates...

[lispeej]

I use steel wool on my stainless steel grates

[Getanet]

tinfoil is for step 2 in smoking ribs, not for wasting on cleaning grates...

All right. But for anyone else who can spare a little tin foil they might want to give it a try.

[fishing tech]

I spray the grates with pam cooking spray before firing up the smoker. Easy cleaning them.

[hockeybc69]

My smoker is my grill... I just crank it up to 600 and burn it out when needed.

Memphis smoker/grill/convection.

All in one baby!

[eyeguy 54]

those are nice Mark!!