What do you do with ash?

[timothy]

Getting ready to grill today and I was cleaning out the inside of the charcoal grill- some sticky residue on the insides of the kettle.

At the same time, the ash bucket was getting full and I was dumping the sticky residue in the ash.

It occurred to me that the ash might be a good cleaner for the inside of the kettle.

Anyone ever use the coal ash as a cleaner?

Back in the day ash made lye which made a soap nd they used animal fat to shape it.

How to Make Ash Soap (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Ash soap is made from lye derived from hardwood ash. Once you concentrate the lye water, you can turn it into soap by cooking it with fat. Traditional colonial recipes used animal fat, but you can use other types of fat too. Because of the...

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[John_NJ]

Back in the day ash made lye which made a soap nd they used animal fat to shape it.

How to Make Ash Soap (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Ash soap is made from lye derived from hardwood ash. Once you concentrate the lye water, you can turn it into soap by cooking it with fat. Traditional colonial recipes used animal fat, but you can use other types of fat too. Because of the...

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The ash itself is abrasive, and it sticks to the grease inside the kettle.

Since the ash is going into the trash anyway, I think I will give it a go next time.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

I use fireplace ash and water to clean the glass doors in the fireplace, wet a wad of newspaper da it in the ash, scrubfinishwil dry newspaper or Windex and paper towels.

 

[Benny Gilbert]

Typically, I either dump them in the yard (as it's really big) or I use them on plants. I need to replant soon though since a deep freeze killed all of the herbs and peppers that we were growing a few years ago lol.

 

[GeraldCurry]

place in garden or flower beds after use the next day

 

[timothy]

I dump it in my metal doggy do do bucket, helps control odors.