I use an old putty knife on my grates a couple of times a year. Does double
duty to scrape the flavorizer bars and drip tray clean of accumulated gunk
that can catch fire with high temp grilling.




" BOB" > wrote in message
...
> Mark Shaw wrote:
> > I recall seeing a new gas grill in a store once that had an
> > interesting accessory. It was essentially a scraper for the
> > cast iron grates; one just wide enough to get down into the
> > spaces in them. It looked like the idea was to run it back
> > and forth in the space, cleaning out all the crusties in one
> > or two passes. The thing was shaped such that it would get
> > the top of the grates clean at the same time as well.
> >
> > Oh, it was also made out of cast iron, I suppose so that it
> > would be heavy enough to work and soft enough not to damage
> > the grates.
> >
> > Anyone ever seen anything like this? I doubt they'd be
> > commonly available, because of differences in grate dimen-
> > sions -- any ideas on something that could be fabricated to
> > do the same thing?
>
> Here's one made out of Stainless steel that will fit *my* SS grates.
> http://www.kamado.com/images/accessorypage/gs2.jpg
>
> You are looking at the business end of it, in the background, it has a
ceramic
> handle.
> It's very useful. I think that Monroe has found over 2027 uses for it.
> 8-)
>
> BOB
>
>