Easy way to clean the bowl of your charcoal grill!

[TimO]

This is the easiest way I have found to safely clean my charcoal bowl. I use a composite shim that you can find at any hardware store. It really works good once the edges have rounded off.

 

[George Curtis]

interesting. never seen that. now i gotta get another toy.

 

[timothy]

Great idea Tim!
I have a bunch of them sittin in the gang-box and would of never thought of that tip

Tim

 

[glen jones]

I like that !!!

 

[TroyRedington]

i've been using 80 cent plastic putty knives

they work great

 

[dean]

Plastic putty knife.

 

[Dave Russell]

That was my question. Do the shims work any better than a cheap plastic putty knife?

 

[Jim H.]

Snip the corners off a plastic putty knife to match the curve of the kettle.

 

[Bob H.]

Remember that charcoal igniter fluid that you don't use since you started using a chimney? If you saturate the inside kettle walls from about the food grate down, and stand back to get it lit safely, it does a great job of burning the crud off, and is kind of fun to watch too.

 

[Matthew]

I just use a 1x2 and cut a 45 deg angle on it...

 

[Rich Dahl]

Great idea I'll give it a try.

 

[Jim Lampe]

Clean the bowl???

hmmm... Never thought of doing that...

 

[Tyson]

I use this to clean my bowl and kettle.

 

[Hector]

This depends how you define Clean. I've recently started to hose down my bowl before a grill session. First get all the ash out with the help of the One-Touch cleaning system; then i use a brush to sweep down all the ash the One-Touch can't get to; Then i flip the grill over and knock out more ash; then i hose down the inside of bowl.

 

[Dean V]

This depends how you define Clean. I've recently started to hose down my bowl before a grill session. First get all the ash out with the help of the One-Touch cleaning system; then i use a brush to sweep down all the ash the One-Touch can't get to; Then i flip the grill over and knock out more ash; then i hose down the inside of bowl.

I'm way too lazy to do this plus I'm trying to have fun when I grill but every now and then I will give the inside a quick and not very thorough scraping.

 

[Frank H]

Remember that charcoal igniter fluid that you don't use since you started using a chimney? If you saturate the inside kettle walls from about the food grate down, and stand back to get it lit safely, it does a great job of burning the crud off, and is kind of fun to watch too.

jeeze , I jokingly suggested something similar in another forum and got royally flamed for my trouble. but I hear ya. prob'ly work great. I am a plastic putty knife fan , just for the record.