How to Clean a Flat Top Grill (Camp Chef or Blackstone)

hey guys welcome to charcoal king hey today i told you about it for last couple weeks we're gonna be cleaning the flat top super easy everybody's got their own system i'm gonna show you because basically as easy as it should be it should not be difficult you shouldn't have to have to have a ton of tools and the know how so we just got done filming a video basically uh burgers caramelized onions and bacon on the flat top the way the flat top looks now is only for video purposes i would never suggest leave your flat top like this at any point there's just no reason my biggest information to give you guys when cleaning a flat top is cleaning as you go that's number one and number two is when you're cooking something i eat a vegetable a steak uh proteins anything it's all about heat control okay here's the thought process when you got your flat top cranked on high or even medium and you're cooking and then your product is done on the flat top there's so much residual heat because this acts like cast iron that when you take the item off of it there's so much heat that that's when the really and truly the burning happens if you notice in our video we can post it right here we'll post it right here when we did the chicken teriyaki that was a handmade basically teriyaki sauce brown sugar soy sauce garlic ginger that is something that's bad for your flat top that's how it sticks so how do you clean it how do you how do you get it go ready for like fried rice or something like that well the point is is you never let it allow to cool down once that chicken was coming off we're allowed to serve it like on a bowl or something like that and then you immediately start scraping okay the less residue that's on your grill to start cleaning the process the better off you're going to be and that's why i say clean as you go that's number one number two we talked about the whatever you're cooking go ahead and shut your flat top off a couple minutes before you think something's going to be done it allows the intensity of the heat to calm down it allows the natural juices look here's a perfect example i'm glad we did this obviously it's a little cold outside but what is that flavor it is you hit the nail on the head that is flavor but that's natural moisture and juice from the meat right you're going to get that from vegetables from the water you're going to get that from meat from the proteins everything else like that so if you allow your grill to cool down with your proteins or vegetables on there then all of a sudden it starts the steaming effect that's why you see people squirt water on their flat top there's not many times that i've ever done that and i honestly say you're gonna have to find the the in between i would not necessarily recommend that i think that's how hot griddles get warped you see people on the professional grill tops use ice we used to do that in the navy this is a whole different setup it's not built for something to shock it that much if you shock it that intense this metal although thicker than most of stuff you have in your kitchen can crack and warp and stuff like that and now you just wasted a great flat top so with all that being said you understand the idea that i'm going for okay you don't have to have all the tricks and tools of the trade it's all about understanding the food concept that comes on the grill lowering your temperature before your product comes off and then getting it clean so here we go my grill is completely off and you see how hard and crusty this is already this is because it should never happen when your grill is warm [Music] you don't turn it on we're just going to go low because i don't need it to be hot or anything like that i just need to get warm the heat helps the the fats and stuff release okay [Music] and i think this is where people get problems when they're trying to clean their grills they don't clean it enough maybe this is better this is where people getting problems and i think that's why such a chore and so many people are concerned about cleaning their flat top is because they haven't been trained or they haven't learned i should say to clean their flat top as they go for each step and to understand the heating aspect so that's what we're doing now [Music] [Music] and here's a little helpful tint tip tint your diameter for your grease trap is only so big if you start putting all this debris in there it clogs up next thing you know you're squirting it down with water or you're scraping your grill clean or something like that and all that pressure comes down here this is only a small reservoir there's no place for it to go it builds up and it overspills it can spill on your feet it can spill on your animals or it leaves your deck a mess so i suggest just having something on the side to help get the food particles off instead of putting them down the the uh the camp chef grease trap all right see we've already made pretty good progress as it is as you guys see me scraping the grill i did just want to do a quick side note and i've mentioned it before i think in my seasoning uh video of the of the camp chef be careful that when you're using a bench scraper that you're not actually cutting into the metal make sure that all sides are connected to your flat top at the same time so you're not using like a knife method you're just using it to scrape the stuff off there's a big difference you can really damage your flat top surface if you're trying to carve into the flat top now that we've got it basically where we want it people say you go through a lot of paper towels i agree what we've developed in our family is a system where i have one wash rag one dish towel that always comes out here and the wash rag is rinsed every time we use a flat top with soap and water then just rinse with water and that would be something i would come on the flat top and just wipe down if there was like extra debris and stuff like that but since we had something that was fatty like the burgers this is how you season your flat top you use that fat to your advantage we had the bacon on there now we had the beef fat and anytime you hear somebody about seasoning cast iron they're always telling you be careful about what you put into it because you can actually help season your cast iron or you can help season your flat top with just some simple proteins beef being beef and bacon being one of them so there's really not a big reason to add uh any type of water or nothing like that so i'm going to turn all these back on low which basically now opens the pour of the flat top opens the pores okay comment below if you guys cook something you having trouble cleaning your flat top i'm trying to just come up with ideas um or basically recipes that go on the flat top that people would say hey i have trouble cleaning this i put something on there it sticks cleaning it or whatever i think just think there's a lot more information that needs to be said about cleaning the flat top versus literally just putting food on there saying you wipe it off and clean it because if you learn how to control your temperature then um everything else will run its course so we just got done with our pork chop dinner and as you can see there's not really anything sticking and that's what it's all about if there was i would scrub it a little bit there's no reason why you can't add a little water obviously just be careful because that will the steam will come up but this is really i mean it's so clean [Music] already let me show them you guys see how much natural oils everything from the butter the avocado oil we didn't even use the olive oil but all that is just basically seasoning you're just going to treat it just like cast iron take a good paper towel wipe it down see that a lot of that's not even food debris a lot of that's just the seasoning that comes off of it on and off and that's the process it's a it's a evan flow of seasoning that's why people will say that you have to reseason it yeah you do it's all about the maintenance more than anything all right so now that's done i do like to take a little bit of oil okay be careful remember the sides are hot and just rub down your outside and that's it clean flat top ready to go tomorrow all right guys so this is like the third part of me cleaning the flat top now this is where we would normally edit this stuff out so i literally have not even finished one video and so what i'm doing is just using my bench scraper okay my flat top is off used brown sugar we use soy sauce we've used sesame oil we use sweet chili sauce garlic we've used oil and ginger okay so what i'm telling you is it really doesn't matter what you put on it it's about how you clean it as you go my biggest thing to you guys and my last point that i'm gonna hit on is just move yourself off the heat okay turn your flat top off don't let it just continue to cook and burn the sugars and change the the uh the flat top itself if you need to move your food over give it a couple good scrapes just like this and then move your food back over if you notice there's a lot of build up okay this helps keep your flat top clean so when you go back to cleaning it for the final time it's so much easier all right my flat top's on low i've got everything pretty much clean i'm just going to go back you guys know i love my avocado oil just do a nice little dupe to dollop and i know you're thinking you put all that oil in there begin with with the bacon and the beef fat you wiped it all off but trust me as a rust prohibitor plus it fills in all those little bitty cracks and crevices and all that stuff make sure you get the sides [Music] and even with your damp thing the outside of it even underneath here okay we're going to leave it on hold on low just for a minute or two and that's it that's how you clean the flat top thanks for watching don't forget to press that subscribe button pound that notification button show somebody this video that needs to learn how to clean the flat top make it look like this if i can do it you can do it peace

Channel: The Flat Top King

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Id: piN4MBbWtKM

Length: 12min 5sec (725 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021