How To Clean A Weber Kettle Charcoal Grill - Deep Clean a BBQ

hey welcome back to pulse of barbecue I'm Jayden postal and today at the grill we're doing a deep-clean of the weber kettle and i want to show you how I do it just like I wasn't gonna put all the show notes for you in the description box below so make sure to click down there to see everything that you need for this video also if you like what we're doing on this channel make sure to hit that subscribe button for more great barbecue recipes tutorials interviews now than that well let's get into the clean so you've probably noticed a lot through videos and social media that I cook on the weber kettle a lot and over time you get all of that grease dripping down into the grill as well as the grease that's actually in the smoke just feeling that cooker coating the outside walls as well as just sort of making a mess of the outside of the grill and so every once in a while we need to do a deep clean and surprisingly enough I've had this grill for about two and a half years and I've never done it so today I'm gonna show you my process on cleaning the inside and outside of the grill to make it look like new so to give you a grill a real deep clean you're gonna need a few tools to do it the first thing we're gonna start with is a putty knife this is a 1 inch putty knife as well as we have mon 1 and 1/2 inch metal putty knife and then if it gets really bad we have 1 inch razor scraper as well as some extra fill cartridges for that now we have a sponge spray nozzle for the hose next I have the steel wolves as as fine as I can get so we don't scratch the outside of the porcelain I have some degreaser to really just help with the breakdown of that grease that's on the inside of the grill as well as some Dawn dish detergent again for cleaning purposes and then just a microfiber cloth for polishing at the very end so the first thing that I'm gonna do is remove all of the parts and I'm gonna kind of clean them a little bit as I go so the first thing we'll see here is our grill grate and take a wire brush and just scrape all the the junk off of that let's remove it off to the backside next I'm going to remove the slow and sear then you'll see that we have all this ash and cried-- sitting in the bottom of our kettle and the great thing about the weber kettle is that it has that easy clean system and so we just need to knock it down into the basket and remove it from the grill so with the majority of the ash out of the grill we're now left with just all of that caked on grease the crud and this is where it can become a little bit labor-intensive and so we need to start using our tools as well as our degreaser at this point so when it comes to using our tools we're always gonna start with our plastic putty knife it's soft it's not gonna damage anything at all and we're gonna get off as much as we can with this method as possible so take your scraper and just weaken going down the side of the grill okay so I did all that I could with this plastic scraper and you'll notice that along the edges where I do most of my cooking it's just caked on with this grease and so at this point I need to take my 1 inch scraper and just go ahead and deal with all of this and so what I'm gonna do this time isn't gonna kind of go on a bit of an angle just to get that off [Music] right so with our bowl and as well as the edges all scraped out for the most part I'm gonna start working on my lid [Music] so after I've pushed everything through the EZ clean system I removed the charcoal basket with all of that crud and just dumped it and then put it back on at this point I want to start spraying it with some degreaser and go ahead and use whatever sort of degreaser you want I've seen people even use oven cleaner today I'm just gonna be using this it's a quick spray and we're going to cover the entire surface of the bowl then with my steel one I'm just gonna just go around I'm gently rubbing that solution all around because look with the lid here specifically it's gonna just pool on the bottom we can just keep moving that around and again this steel wool is superfine so it's not gonna hurt the porcelain in fact it's gonna help just get off all the remaining bits of crud and buildup that's on your grill alright that looks pretty good I'm just gonna remove this from the grill just set it on the grass and we'll just let it keep soaking in that degreaser I'm gonna spray this one last time so I can scrub around with it and take your scrubbing pad and do all of the edges including the lip here this is an important section of your grill that needs to be cleaned really well to have that nice seal so you can control your temperatures a bit better [Music] so with the inside of the kettle as well as the inside of the lid done let's go ahead and move on to our grill grate again we're gonna take our degreaser and spray at the outside of that grill grate and then again we're gonna take our steel wool and begin to really get into the nooks and crannies so now that everything is scrubbed and degreased we need to rinse it all down and make sure it's good and clean they're gonna go around with my sponge and some dawn and just rinse it really good and get it nice and clean [Music] [Music] I'm gonna take my dawn and just give a nice generous coating of that there we go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so guys I just finished rinsing out the kettle and it looks completely different looks like a whole new kettle grill I'm gonna put it out in the Sun to let it dry off then I'm gonna put it all back together and then I'll show you what it looks like [Music] [Applause] [Music] so with just over two hours and a bunch of elbow grease this Weber Kettle is shiny and clean it looks phenomenal guys it's almost like it just came out of the box brand new I went ahead and added this never before used easy spin great just to make it look even better it's shiny it's clean it's ready to cook [Music] so there you have a deep-clean of the weber kettle it's shiny it's clean it's ready to cook on hey if you want to see more barbecue videos just like this one make sure to hit that subscribe button as well as that notification bell and we'll see you next time [Music]

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Id: 9U0wwziHTtU

Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/LehighAce06]

Got one for a gas grill? In particular Weber, specifically Summit?

[u/Tarengo]

Thanks for posting this!

[u/timbo1615]

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