Cleaning Weber Q-Inside and out and around the burner

Thanks for all the ideas!!!
Pat

2gypsies wrote:
This is something like a black tank.....you'll never get it clean . . . and why bother - after one use it's dirty again.

Every 6m I scrape the inside and poke the holes. I don't try to clean it. After each cooking I wire brush the grate.

Finally.... A Hillbilly.. :)

2gypsies wrote:
This is something like a black tank.....you'll never get it clean . . . and why bother - after one use it's dirty again.

Every 6m I scrape the inside and poke the holes. I don't try to clean it. After each cooking I wire brush the grate.

Well I agree this only happens when the darn thing is so crusty I can't get enough flame to heat my food. Once every few months is about right. We have replaced the darn thing once. I love my Q grill.

This is something like a black tank.....you'll never get it clean . . . and why bother - after one use it's dirty again.

Every 6m I scrape the inside and poke the holes. I don't try to clean it. After each cooking I wire brush the grate.

I have two Weber-Qs, one in the motorhome and one at home (the larger non portable model). Love cooking on them. After trying several different methods, the one I have found that works the best is taking it apart (removing burner) and blasting the heck out of everything it with the highest pressure nozzle on my pressure washer. I lay the burner tube flat on concrete and do the same thing. A little messy (blowback) but very effective.

Blast everything out with compressed air after power washing. Works like new after you get done. Twice a year seems to be good enough.

My least favorite was the toothpick method. Tried that a couple of times and good grief there are a lot of holes and I never can get them all clean at once.

Cheers,

Greg

Yeah, gotta get to that one of these days....maybe tomorrow...

To really clean the burner tube, use a toothpick (more than one required) to poke burner holes to clear them (takes a minute or two), then I use a piece of safety wire to go through the u-shaped tube. Tamp the end to clear debris and re-install.

Guess I'm a low-class southern mountain hillbilly (no offense to Hillbilly's)

I clean out the sludge with a scraper and an occasional rinse from a pressure washer, and that's it. The grate either gets a wire brush or a self cleaning oven. No cleaners whatsoever.

There is nothing worse than the lingering taste of oven cleaner or soap that simply cannot be rinsed completely out. There are people that have lost BBQ competitions because they or someone else once used charcoal starter fluid, and once its there, its there. Its a BBQ, not an oven.

But I'm also the one that breaks in a new BBQ with the greasiest low grade meat I can find on the 1st cook for a little extra smoke.

Hillbilly... Out

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I used a rubber scrapper and small wire brush to clean ours at the house. While camping Ill scrape it out then use the hot water sprayer on my outside spray port.

My 2 cents:
- Body: Oven cleaner
- Burner Tube: green pot scrubber or wire brush, but do it frequently
- Clogged Burner Tube: very small drill bit, but be careful not to enlarge holes
- Grill: nothing but a BBQ scraper... it is cast iron, treat it like a well seasoned cast iron frying pan.