The Lazy Guide to Cleaning a Gas Barbecue

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Cleaning a gas barbecue will always be one of the most time consuming and unpleasant activities I had the pleasure to engage in. There’s always lots of grease, food particles stuck to the surface of the grill for good, and God knows how many other things, which just won’t come off there.

So, I usually end up scrubbing, wiping, crying and getting mad that nothing happens. Then I decided to do some research and find a better way to clean my gas barbecue. And after some searching, I gathered some pretty useful tips, which helped me a lot with this difficult task.

I call it the lazy guide to cleaning a gas barbecue, because the solutions I found are really easy and help me reduce the amount of dirt, which I have to scrub off the surface later. Here are some useful tips which might help you too.

Difficulty	Cost	Time	Age	Person	Event
Easy	$1 to $25	1-2 Hours	25-50	Adult	--

You Will Need...

aluminium foil
dishwasher
scrub brush
liquid detergent

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1

Clean while it’s still warm.

This is a trick almost everybody knows, but it still needs to be said. It’s best to clean your barbecue while it’s still warm, right after you cook on it. This is because the grease and food particles won’t have the chance to dry and get rock solid.

After the BBQ gets cold, all the dirt on it will get stuck so well, that you’ll have to re-heat it in order to be able to get all of it out. If you want, you can get a special brush and use it to remove the stuck pieces of food right after you remove the meat from there. This way you will save yourself lots of cleaning later.
Step 2

Use the dishwasher.

Many people pay so much attention to the cleaning details and to what brush to use, that they forget that our modern time has created one amazing invention – the automatic dishwasher! And you can use it to wash a lot more than just your dishes.

Unless the grill grates are too wide or long, they should fit perfectly inside a dishwasher. You’ll just need to add some extra detergent and pick a SCRUB option, if your dishwasher has such a button. The extra heat and moisture inside this amazing machine will do all the work for you. It’s not a big issue if the grates still come out a little blackened – the most important part is that the food particles are gone. If you’re going to store your barbecue grill after that, you’ll have to spray it with some cooking oil and heat it for about 15 minutes, to remove all the harmful bacteria.
Step 3

Grease drip tray.

The grease drip tray has always been the most unpleasant part of the whole BBQ cleaning experience. But there is one simple solution, which will save you the need to scrub it every single time. Just cover it with some aluminium foil. Then you can fill the tray with a special BBQ grease absorbent mix, which will contain the grease during your cooking. If you don’t find any, you can also use some kitty litter if you want. Once the absorbent mix gets saturated, you’ll just need to remove it together with the aluminium foil. This way your food will taste a lot better, and you will reduce the risk of potential grease fires, which are a quite common occurrence with gas barbecues. We can easily say, that one simple thing can save us from lots of potential dangers.
Step 4

Teflon grill sheets.

Another great trick, which will practically save you tons of time, is to use teflon grill sheets. They cost less than 20 AUD and they will make save you lots of trouble. They come in all kinds of sizes, so you won’t have to worry about that. These sheets act like a barrier between the meat and the surface of the BBQ plate. This means that the teflon sheets will keep all the dirt and grease from getting onto your gas barbecue. Since the surface is made out of teflon, nothing will stick to it. So, all the cleaning you’ll have to perform is to wipe it with a cloth after each cooking.