Cleaning Up George's Act

Warning and Disclaimer:  This is a dangerous way to clean your grill.  It creates large amounts of steam that can burn you very quickly.  Please use caution when using this advice.  I do not take any responsiblity for anyone's accidents related to this blog, so don't try to sue me for something I didn't make you do.

A few years ago my son got us a Geoge Foreman grill.  We love this grill.  We probably use it four to six times a week.  Highly possibly considering there are 21 meals in a day.

However, I fell quickly out of love with the grill when I had to clean it.  Anything other than sandwiches and it was days before I wanted to use it again because it was so difficult to clean.  However, I am here to testify that I am back in love with my grill.

Why?

Because I figured out how to clean it!

I remembered back to working at McDonald's and how we used to periodically throughout the day clean those big nasty grills and then at the end of the day how we'd clean them again.  Are you ready for this?

WATER.

We used water.  At the restaurant we poured the water right on the the grill and had big blades that we pushed the steamy (dangerous) mixture off the end into the trap.  The grill were so clean they stuck for a few cycles of burgers and all we used was water.

I decided to try the same with the grill.  At first I drug the HOT grill to the sink and sprayed it with the hose.  That worked but was dangerous and messier than scrubbing.  Then I got squirt bottle full of water and with it plugged in raised the lid about 1/2 way and squirted the lower plate and found that the steam rose up to the upper plate.

The baked on cooked on mess that I had spent so much time scrubbing boiled to the top of the steam and as soon as the grill was cool enough to tough handle I took it over to the sink and wiped it down.

I've done this quite a few times now and there has been a few times when I need to rub a spot here or there, but I have never had to scrub the grill again.  This has made me infinitely happy because I am so crazy about this grill.  We are back using again as often as before.  I will use this grill until it wears out or burns up.  Then I will probably get the one with the removal plates, but I will still use the steam method I learned 20 years ago at McDonald's.

I repeate this method creates a great deal of very dangerous steam and would hope that you would use caution when using my advice.  I do not take responsiblity for any injury created by this blog.