How To Keep Your BBQ Clean In Between Summer Lunches

Summer lunches are a great way to bond with your friends and family. However, what is lunch without a BBQ serving smoking hot food on everybody’s plates? Grilled food and a group of friends and family having fun on a warm sunny day is a remarkable sight. Though, to be able to achieve this regularly, you should know how to keep the BBQ clean and in shape at all times. As the BBQ’s service would be required repeatedly, knowing all the techniques for its preservation and cleanliness are necessary. Here are a few solid tips to help you out in this regard.

Give the BBQ a Nice Brushing

The BBQ is bound to get dirty every time you would grill something on it to keep your summer parties going. The important thing is to ensure that you clean all the leftover food bits, dust and dirt once you are done with the cooking. You should remove the plates and/or grills at first and then brushing off each dust spot and leftovers of food you can find on the BBQ. Check the BBQ manufacturer’s recommendation for the material of the brush but in general, you should avoid any metal piece or any wire for this purpose. You should stay wary of the fact that you do not need to apply a lot of force while brushing off the BBQ as it can end up damaging the equipment as well.

Put the BBQ in Soapy Water

The brush should do the job for the BBQ but the grill or the plate that you had removed would also need cleaning. The best way to clean the grill is to use soapy water. The temperature of the water should be high. This would allow for easy removal of the accumulated dirt, dust and charred food bits from the grill or plate’s surface. Simply use a clean cloth to rub over the surface once you are sure that the soapy hot water has worked over its magic.

Season the BBQ

Seasoning the grill is very important if you want to be able to reuse the BBQ again soon for another summer lunch party. Seasoning the BBQ is not a big deal and only requires some cooking oil and a bit of patience.

1. To start off, once you are done with cleaning every piece of the equipment, you should use cooking oil and apply it all over the cooking area of the grill.
2. Use a clean piece of cloth for the purpose. Afterwards, put the grill back in the BBQ and heat it for twenty-odd minutes.
3. This would season the BBQ again.
4. Once done, you should wipe off the cooking surface of the grill with a clean piece of a damp cloth.

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