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I’ve just moved to a house where the previous people left a Weber Spirit gas grill. They took the gas bottle, kinda understandably. I’ve never owned or used an LPG grill.
It’s in a pretty dire-looking state on the inside as seen from the pics, so I thought I’d ask before I buy a new propane bottle:
Is this salvageable? What would be the recommended tools and cleaning products if so? Can I use the same degreaser on all parts of the grill?
I’m after any pro tips that I could get this into ship shape before I let it hibernate for the winter.
by dwylth
13 Comments
Heat and lots of it. Get it up to 500-600 and burn it off. Then get to scraping. Repeat that until it’s clean. You can use water too to help rinse in between the heating cycles.
Then you need to re-season it, much like a cast iron pan. Oil, wipe off excess oil, heat. Repeat 2 or 3x
Get some of that grease remover soap with pumice in it and scrub it with some water. Get what you can, rinse the shit out of it, then burn off the rest.
Looks pretty ok to me. Just heat and scrub the grid, I like to use a grill stone.
i just happened upon a pumice stone cleaner at home depot. bought one, it worked so well i bought a 2nd one. after you use it, you just wipe down the grate with a wet paper towel, and the dust is gone.
[cleaner](https://www.homedepot.com/p/BETTER-GRILLIN-Scrubbin-Stones-and-Handle-Combo-2-Pack-13895/310480889)
It’s really not that bad. I’d just get it ripping hot the scrape the gunk off from the ledge that holds the grates and up, and the grates themselves.
Be careful with cranking it to high heat. If there’s enough grease you could start a grease fire.
That looks like a Weber Genesis. The whole tray below the burners should pull out. It’s enamel coated steel. Hit it with some degreaser and scrub with a sponge then rinse with water. It doesn’t need to be spotless. After you’ve done that cleaning, then I’d recommend the high heat blast to clean the grates and the heat diffusers.
I have same type of grill, I pull all the parts out after a good bristle brush scrubbing then in a large cardboard box I spray Oven Off on it all, let it sit for about 30 mins, then scrub/rinse it off. Works like a charm
That grill is just fine. It looks like about a half of summer’s. Just get yourself a one inch paint scraper, push all the “stuff’ down towards the hole in the bottom, put the grates back on on fire that thing up
Pressure washer. I just take the cast-iron stuff out and blast them off then use an air compressor to blow out the gas tubes.
Get that hoe hot
Looks like you just need to out in some good ‘ol elbow grease… I clean my grill yearlyZ
I scored a dirty as hell Genesis a year ago. I just scraped the inside best I could, then put the grill on full blast and just smoked everything inside until it became carbonised. Then wire brushed the grate while hot then sprayed with water from a spray bottle. The water will bubble up and knock any loose brush wire and carbonised gunk off. Then re season the grate and it’s like 90% good enough.
Looksjust fine. If anything jist crank up the heat next time you use it. That will burn off anything bad.