For cast iron grates, if you have a fireplace that you can place grills into,
bring the cast iron up to a enough of a glow, just enough to cinder everything off.

Did this with my gas grill once, by covering grill up to one inch of their edges,
with aluminum foil...worked beautifully. Second time I over did it.
Left them on too long, sagged the cast iron slightly.


On 1 Feb 2004 17:36:45 -0500, (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?