Grill Maestro

Ummmm … so I advised that using your oven’s cleaning cycle to burn clean your grill grates sounded like a really good idea, at the time, but I’ve since changed my mind. See, we’ve seen some unseasonably nice weather here in Baltimore so I’ve decided to open up my Charbroil grill for business and my grill grates, given my plan to use the oven’s clean cycle, were absolutely disgusting. I shouldn’t have really let them get to the state they were at but I figured burning them clean would solve all my problems. Bad idea.

See, one of the byproducts of burning is, of course, smoke. Ovens are not entirely sealed and they generally don’t have a special exhaust system to vent off smoke because you generally don’t want to be burning your food (on purpose). Well, given all the crap on my grill, the cleaning process filled my entire house full of smoke and for quite possible the first time in my life, I was thankful I had ceiling fans in a vast majority of my rooms.

So, my suggestion to all who read this, first scrape off the crap that is on your grill, then send it through the clean cycle of your oven.