get four simple steps you ready for the summer barbecue

When the beautiful summer weather in roles is almost like your backyard is an additional room in your home. The barbecue is often the focus.

No matter how much or how little you use your barbecue last summer, now is the time to do spring cleaning - for more safety and fun. Here are some basic tips for the care and cleaning of the grill.

1. Obtain basic detergent together

You have covered or not, whether protected or not, in autumn, winter and spring your grill is hit and suffer all kinds of bad weather, wind and dirty. Give a little love in early spring, so that it can immediately use bypass.

Put a basic cleaning equipment together: a pair of good quality towels they do not mind dirty, a brush, a bucket and some soap and water, and maybe a vacuum cleaner. Except maybe a cleaning solution that can act as a degreaser, there is really no need to buy anything special. The only thing you do not want to use in cleaning the grill oven is clean: it is corrosive and can damage the parts of the grill.

Covering an area you can work, you can remove the cooking grates and brush and rub. When they are thrown, remember to return with oil and heat on the grill in the season according to the manufacturer's instructions. experienced gratings are important as a grill to bonding to prevent, especially at higher temperatures.

2. Remove and inspect the Grill Parts

Keep aluminum foil used on toast Squeeze and Go! A cleaning tool of instant BBQ. (Flickr / Anders Adermark)

By some parts of the grill to delete, you can practically see all internals of your grill. Remove the tamers or heat plates and clean. Then check out the burners and burner tubes among them. They are quick to use depending on their use; Deterioration can hot spots and heat distribution deficiency Cooking mean.

Check the other internal components such as stones and brick barbecue washes, if any. can build fats, oils and foodstuffs and cause breakouts. A lot of debris, food and other, can the body of cast iron gate, accumulate the main part of the grill. Clean - this is a suction equipment could be useful.

Outside the body of the grill, check that the gas outlets of fast connection and all regulators are in good condition. Make sure the hoses are working free of cracks and deterioration of the keys correctly and the ignition pushbutton works. Sometimes it does not make heavy use and exposure to the elements: Universal replacement are relatively inexpensive. It's the same with built-in grill lid thermometer: can the passage of time does not, but they are easy to replace. Make sure that the fat intake is safe in the body of the grill in place. Outside Grill probably have some good rags to solve water and soap grease, a brush, in particular, not a band-aid, pickled stainless steel finish to get.

AP Photo: Mark Duncan

The same steps are with tea and barbecue grills easily standing in connection - what might be called braziers. The grid should be brushed down and seasoned again. Fat and waste parts formed in the grill lid needs to be brushed. Remove the grid base, the carbon and give a good cleaning. if coal ash and old cleaning slopping. Soapy water and a steel wool cloth work well. Make sure that the ash receiver (if any) is safe under the basin in good condition. Control of the air flow is much charcoal grill, so make sure that the air vents at the top and work down and allows you to control the temperature of the fire.

3. Check venturi insects

An important word of the venturi tubes in gas grills: These range from the burner tubes for control valves Grill. They allow air is burned to mix with propane or natural gas to cook on the grill. When the gas flow is blocked, a fire could start your grill, where you do not want.

Because they are open to the air, and regardless of whether they have screens occur to prevent insects and dirt, it is advisable that the gas to be checked, can move freely: the tubes using a venturi tube cleaning brush (yes, there is such a thing ) - or a length of the house is made of flexible wire. Venturi tubes should be checked regularly throughout the season barbecue.

4. Clean as you go

One could say that the BBQ and outdoor entertaining an emotion, a state of being almost hope that each spring. There is a certain freedom that "cut" comes in their cooking and entertaining guests and family. Keep it simple and follow maintenance. A summer and early fall can mean a number of dirt particles of fat and cooking full grill. Regular cleaning during the season means to start a lot less work spring.

more tips

Except that aluminum! If you used a foil to cook, not throw: in a ball crumpled, it is a good tool to scrape the dirty grates after the grill.

Keep an old rocking chair a little longer Grill

If your barbecue is in the past and try was even more out of it, coal briquettes or lava rock to avoid around the burner adding hot spots and distribute heat more evenly.

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