Time to clean your gas grill


 
Chris Allingham

Chris Allingham

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With a summer of grilling behind us and the Labor Day weekend fast approaching, NOW is a good time to give your gas grill a good cleaning!

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Deep Cleaning Your Weber Gas Grill - The Virtual Weber Gas Grill

In a post last year, I said I was a clean freak when it comes to my grill. But sometimes I get busy and/or lazy and I let my Weber Summit 450 go too long between cleanings. I know it’s starting to get bad when I have a hard time lighting the grill because the ignitors are … Continue reading Deep...
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It is coming time to clean my grill. Not too bad but better now then when cooking!
As the thermometer sweeps past 500, the smoke builds and the grates clean. But if you have leftover marinade or a lot of fatty cooks... conflagration. The drip tray and such, whoosh.
Thanks for the reminder and the step-by-step. Not my first rangeo but always helpful to know we are doing it right.
 
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Tony Coloma said:
But if you have leftover maranade or a lot of fatty cooks... conflagration
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Yes, we want to avoid this:

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How To Avoid A Grease Fire In Your Weber Gas Grill - The Virtual Weber Gas Grill

Grease Fires Can Be Scary! This is NOT a photo of the actual grease fire I experienced recently, but it might as well be. In early March 2022, I was vacationing with my extended family, staying in a rented house in a state park that included a Weber Genesis II E-325 gas grill. My brother …...
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I started my journey through the resto Mod of my genesis 2xxx in the spring but, life has gotten in the way so, my “cleaning” has taken me down deep into the rabbit hole and is STILL not done!
Thanks for the post Chris! I don’t see me needing to do it this fall but, next year I’m sure I will!
 
There's a couple of different tasks involved here.

The one that matters most is the rough scrape and scoop out of the interior of the firebox, flav bars, deflectors and bottom grease tray. Important to suppress grease fires. Which are bad for cooking and also dangerous. You should do the fire box clean out a few times a year.

For my newer Genesis grill with the heat deflectors under the flav bars, I do the rough scrape/scoop every 6-8 weeks. Those deflectors catch and hold a lot of combustible crud up in the firebox. On my Silver B, more stuff makes it down to the grease tray below the fire box where it is less likely to catch fire.

Everything else is cosmetic and does not really impact function or safety.
 
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Thanks for posting this, Chris!

I was talking with my wife about this earlier this week. We've been using the Genesis EP-320 a LOT this summer with all the hot weather and I haven't cleaned it since early spring, so now that the temps have cooled off, cleaning the grill is #1 on the to-do list this weekend 😀
 
yes, thanks - I pressure wash our 2005 Genesis once a year when I clean the deck - it does a good enough job on the inside, but the years have taken their toll on the lid - I scored some of the 0000 steal wool, and with a little elbow grease, got the ol' gasser looking pretty respectable this weekend - thanks for the pro tip!
 
Didn't clean the grill last weekend, but got it done today. Boy, did it need it! Couldn't believe how much stuff had accumulated in the drip tray. If I had put that off much longer, it would have started to become a grease fire hazard. The grates, warming rack, flavorizer bars and the drip tray are all out in the backyard in plastic trash bags right now after I sprayed them with oven cleaner. Won't be able to rinse them off with the pressure washer until tomorrow evening since it's back to work on Tues, but that's fine.

Anyway, really glad it's done. Definitely one less thing to worry about.

I even gave the grates for the WSM the oven cleaner treatment today as well.

Next up is the SS grate for the performer, but that will have to wait until later this week.
 
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