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A clean grill, marinade or spice blend, provides a better taste. Inspected annually hold routine easier to handle, and help to ensure that the burner running at full speed, the chassis rattle, and can even prevent forest fires. Follow these tips for the first meeting of the deep cleansing of the season, and after the regular maintenance, to pack up for the year. And if you're a man of charcoal are just scroll down.

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Wipe the grill
Use a sponge with warm water and soap to clean enamel surfaces and stainless steel inside and out. Wipe avoid that marks in the direction of the grain of stainless steel. Check oxide painted surfaces. If you find one, remove it with a wire brush, a cloakroom with a metal primer and finish with a top coat of high heat, such as Krylon BBQ and oven. The broken material inside black cover no peeling paint, there is an accumulation of smoke and fat that you want to delete.

Clean the screens
If you forget to clean the grill of stainless steel after leaving the final season, do not worry. Cover the grid with a homemade paste made of waving a quarter cup of baking soda in a quarter cup of water. Let stand for about 20 minutes, then cleaned with a brush the grill. If the network is seriously contaminated, store it in a clean garbage bag and spray with oven cleaner before. Overnight During the season, keep the grill clean by heat for about five minutes - and is then opened, a ball of paper (or use a grill brush) and scrub bars - no longer. For porcelain-coated grids: Stay away from the blade, which comes in a couple of brushes, such as to undermine the coating. Shield cast iron pan with a paper towel soaked in oil after cleaning.

Clean burner
Most modern gas grills have mesh prevents insects mixed in a house in the tubes of the air with the gas venturi for uniform burned. If yours does not use a dry brush to clean the pipes and cover the opening with a wire mesh to prevent future invasions. Light the grill grates or covers without burner and watch the flames. Ports fat burner clogged over time, the seal and cause hot and cold spots and uneven flames. Want to see consistently shot blue flames with yellow treble. Clean burner tubes with a brush and stainless steel burner holes with a paper clip or cleaning hoses.

Test compounds
Here's a simple way to determine if your connection gas (natural or LP), escapes: Coat regulator, valves and hoses with soapy water, then turn on the gas. If you see bubbles, you have a leak. Tighten connections or pick up a new tube or O-ring.

Find Hotspots
Rarely an underground heat is evenly throughout the network grid. Know where the hot spots to avoid combustion or boiled chicken burger. First, find points for the entire network with slices of bread, then let the high-temperature heat for a few minutes. Once you flip the bread more you. To see which parts or they are cooler areas capable The arrangement can be cost effective and to move it as a cool place the cooked food. Or by set the grid in the coolest place with a conductor of heat faster than in anodized aluminum.

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Check the chassis
A barbecue is to use fun or safe shaky. Check the seals and connections for rust and remove any with a wire brush, then cover with rust primer and high temperature. While you're at it, remove the nuts and bolts and everything is loose, how to replace handles or wheels.

Clean Grease
If ignored, the shells to grease may overflow and cause a fire to collect. Clean the beginning of the season and years of routine, to go faster by aligning the case with a version in a disposable aluminum or assets of aluminum foil.

Rub the tops of the burners
Most gas grills are equipped with a plate which is in the burners, protecting them from the crash sauces, assist in the distribution of heat, and adding flavor when they fall vaporize fat. Use a brush to remove grease or could trap moisture and promote corrosion. If you and when emitting a rancid odor or taste to replace lava rock or ceramic briquettes burner.

Cover the grill properly
Start a canvas on the grill the penetration of water is cooled once to prevent, but also any condensation on the surface forms hold - that the oxide does. Invest in a fabric or vinyl grill comes with a lining to absorb moisture.

Cleaning charcoal grills
The outside of the grill with soapy water and a sponge. Then remove the grill and the one who sat on coal. Slide the ash in the ash collecting and washing the inside of the shell left. Use a steel wool pad soaked in soap on the moving parts of the fat burning.

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