Wait, you’ve got a leftover onion from the burger toppings? Perfect. Cut it in half, stick a fork into the flat side, and rub that sucker all over your hot grates. The onion juice is a natural degreaser.
It sizzles, it steams, and it pulls off crud like nothing else. Plus, your whole yard will smell like a fancy steakhouse instead of a dumpster fire. It’s a two-for-one deal: clean grill, amazing smell. Try it once, you’ll never go back to spray cans.
The Deep Clean: For Lazy People (That’s Us)
Okay, sometimes the surface scrub isn’t enough. Maybe you got distracted by a fourth beer. Maybe you left the lid closed for a week. Now you have a Mount Everest of grease inside. Don’t panic. This is the part where we get dramatically lazy.
How To Clean A Barbecue - 12 BBQ Cleaner Hacks
Crank your grill up to high. Close the lid. Let it run for 15 minutes. You are essentially cremating the filth. Open it up, and scrape the ash off with your foil ball. That’s it. Burn it off, brush it off. You just did a full cleaning by setting things on fire. Welcome to the caveman method. It works.
