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whats the best stuff to use on the grills of my WSM ?

I get most stuff off with foil but ive got a few baked on bits id like to clean off

Usually i wait until the next cook, get it up to temp and give the grates a good rub down with a wire brush, that usually gets rid of any baked on crud very easily. When I first got my wsm I would take the grates off and wash them in the sink every time, but a wire brush makes cleaning the grates a 20 second job.

I usually get the grills as close as possible to the coals after the food had come off, then use a triangular wire brush to get the carbonised crud off, and then finish them in the dishwasher.

I might have to sneak them into the dishwasher lol

Watch out for those wire brushes, there's a good number of horror stories about people ingesting stray wires left on the grates and ending up with a perforated stomach/intestine. I just scrub the grates in hot soapy water with a ball of foil

I rest the grill over the starter when and then use a good wire brush to clean it off once it had baked solid.

Chaps,
Dishwasher sounds a touch OCD for me, get them hot and carbonised and scrub with either wire brush or foil ball......cheers
Tiny

Personally I don't go to this extreme, I just burn it off at the beginning of the next cook and go over with a BGE grill brush. You could use this with some Lakeland oven cleaner if you want

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003GUC ... ot_redir=1

Planet Barbecue do stock them but are currently out of stock

http://www.planetbarbecue.co.uk/sfaccessories3.html