I've been watching but don't see a reply to this. I have never cleaned a grill in my life, other than the method you mention above. Occasionally, in the past I have sprayed PAM on the grill if I am cooking fish, but normally I have one side pretty clean as it is not over the fire, since I almost always split the coals...not always in the center though, for cooking yaki-tori in the kettle, I keep the coals in the center so I can extend the bamboo sticks out past the heat, so they don't burn up...in practice, some always get burned anyway...Originally posted by KenP:
Just curious, but why clean them so thoroughly? Can you get them shiney silver again?
I take mine and throw them on the Performer. Next time I use it I heat the hell out of them and brush them clean.
Originally posted by Pat Barnes:
Michele,
You might be able to use a pan that is made to sit a water heater into for leak protection. They have ahole in the side of them for a drain bout you can probaly got somePVC pipe to close it or just duct tape.