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Gas Griller’s Toolbox
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Gas Griller’s Toolbox
Store the following tools near your grill for quick, easy, regular cleanups:
- Stainless steel wire brush
- Soap-embedded, fine steel wool pads
- Mild dish soap
- Sponge or dishcloth
- Plastic or Teflon® scraper
- 1 inch putty knife
- Fitted foil Catch Pan Liners
Every time you grill:
Clean the cooking grate. Before or after grilling, burn off any residue by simply turning the grill on high until the smoke stops, then brush the cooking grates with a wire grill brush. Easy! (Note: Cast iron cooking grates require slightly different care.)
As needed:
Change the Catch Pan Liner. You can buy replacement Drip Pans from English Gardens. These pans are made to fit your catch pan under the bottom tray of your Weber gas grill. Regularly changing the liner also discourages animals from visiting your grill for a midnight snack.
Remove smoke stains from the grill lid and side burner cover. Carefully remove any smoke
stains from the grill lid with a soapy, fine steel wool pad and a very light touch. For the
stainless steel side burner cover, use only warm, soapy water and a sponge or dishcloth even
fine steel wool will scratch it. Smoke stains are most likely to occur when your Weber gas grill
is new, at the seams of the lid where the porcelain-enameled hood meets the endcaps. They
can also accumulate around the thermometer holder. These stains will stop appearing after
your grill has built up a natural seal from accumulated cooking vapors.
Clean the Flavorizer Bars. You really don’t ever need to remove the Flavorizer Bars from
your grill to clean them, since preheating the grill and burning off residue by turning the grill
on “high” is enough to turn any accumulated debris to ashes. Occasionally brushing the bars
off with a wire grill brush or scraping them with a nylon, plastic or Teflon-putty knife should be
sufficient maintenance. Just be careful not to gouge the porcelain-enamel finish.
Clean the warming racks and control panel. A soapy, fine steel wool pad will keep the
warming racks clean and free of smoke stains and debris. It will also remove grease spots
and stains from the control panel, but use a very light touch so as to not scratch the porcelain.
Rinse thoroughly.
Clean the outside of the endcaps and cookbox. You should clean up grease drippings on
these exterior surfaces as soon as possible. Grease is toxic to painted surfaces. Use mild,
soapy water and rinse thoroughly. Harsh or lemon-based cleaners can ruin the paint finish on
the endcaps and cookbox.
If you need to touch up the paint on the endcaps and cookbox, use high heat-resistant (up to
700F) Barbecue Black or Fireplace Black spray paint. (Please note that this paint is only for
the outside of the endcaps and cookbox, not for any porcelain-enameled finishes.) First wash
the surface to be painted and rough up any bare spots with fine sandpaper. Then cover the
porcelain hood with paper or cardboard to prevent over-spraying onto the porcelain finish.
Spray only the outside of the lid endcaps. For the cookbox, first cover any other parts of the
grill with paper or cardboard, then use the spray to touch up bare spots.
Clean the bottom tray. Remove the cool (never hot!) bottom tray from under the grill and
place over a trash can. Carefully scrape the inside with a 1” putty knife or other straight, flat
object. Push the residue out through the bottom hole into the trash can. To deep clean the
tray, use warm, soapy water and a soapy, fine steel wool pad, being careful not to scratch
the porcelain finish. (NEVER line the bottom tray with foil, as grease can accumulate in the
creases in the foil and cause a grease fire.)
Never:
Wax or paint the lid. The finish on your grill is baked-on porcelain enamel, so you never have
to wax or paint it. This finish is glossier and much more durable than paint, and wax will only
streak when the grill gets hot. So just wipe the lid down with warm, soapy water when it gets
dusty or dirty. Easy!
NEVER use oven cleaner on your gas grill. Oven cleaner is not friendly to the painted
surfaces of your grill; it can remove the paint.