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How To Keep Weber Gas Grill Clean

In a post terminal year, I said I was a clean freak when it comes to my grill. Merely sometimes I get busy and/or lazy and I let my Weber Summit 450 become too long betwixt cleanings. I know it's starting to go bad when I take a hard time lighting the grill because the ignitors are chock-full with debris. I know it'due south getting even worse when the burners are burning unevenly and with xanthous flames because some of the burner holes are clogged. That's when I know it's time to break down and exercise a deep cleaning of my grill.

Here's how I practice it.

Grill Cleaning Tools & Supplies Needed

Grill cleaning supplies & tools
Some of the supplies & tools needed to do a Weber gas grill deep cleaning

To deep make clean your grill you'll need the following tools and supplies:

  • Grill castor
  • Leather grilling  gloves
  • Narrow and wide putty knives
  • Stainless steel bristle brush
  • Eyeglass screwdriver or newspaper clip
  • Dispensable latex/nitrile gloves
  • Windex, Unproblematic Green or similar cleaner
  • Stainless steel cleaner
  • Compressed air duster
  • 0000 super-fine steel wool
  • Towels/rags
  • Garbage purse

During some of the steps shown below, you may want to vesture disposable gloves to proceed your hands clean.

Brush The Grates

Brushing grill grates
Brushing the grill grates

Turn all burners to High and burn-off the grates for 10-fifteen minutes. Use a grill brush to clean the superlative side of the grates. Allow the grates cool plenty and so yous can handle them safely with grilling gloves then flip them over and brush the back side. Remove the grates and fix them aside.

Scrape The Flavorizer Bars

Scraping Flavorizer bars with a wide putty knife
Scraping Flavorizer bars with a broad putty knife
Dirty vs clean Flavorizer bar
Muddy vs make clean Flavorizer bar

When the grill has cooled sufficiently, use a wide putty knife to scrape both sides of each Flavorizer bar into the open grill. Examine the status of each bar. Information technology's common for Flavorizer bars to rust due to food drippings and high oestrus. They do not demand to exist replaced until they kickoff to rust through and intermission apart. Fix the Flavorizer confined aside afterward scraping.

See All About Flavorizer Bars to learn more.

Scrape The Upper Firebox

Firebox with grates and Flavorizer bars removed
Firebox with grates and Flavorizer bars removed
Scraping the upper part of the firebox with a wide putty knife
Scraping the upper part of the firebox with a wide putty knife

Utilize a broad putty pocketknife to scrape debris from the back and sides of the upper firebox, allowing it to autumn down into the grill. Use a stainless steel wire brush to remove any debris from the ledges and nooks & crannies around the perimeter of the upper firebox.

Clean-Out The Ignitor Boxes

Blowing-out the igniter box
Blowing-out the igniter box

Use a compressed air duster to remove debris from the ignitor boxes. Examine the condition of each box; if rusted through, consider replacing the ignitor assembly so that the grill lights easily.

Clean The Burners & Crossover Tubes

Burner tube holes clogged with debris
Burner tube holes clogged with debris
Cleaning burner holes with stainless steel brush
Cleaning burner holes with stainless steel brush
Cleaning the Crossover tube
Cleaning the Crossover tube
Close-up of clean burner and Crossover tube
Close-up of make clean burner and Crossover tube
Punching-out clogged burner holes with an eyeglass screwdriver
Punching-out chock-full burner holes with an eyeglass screwdriver
All burner tubes clean and burning with blue flames
All burner tubes make clean and burning with bluish flames

Use a stainless steel wire castor to remove droppings from the burner tubes and the Crossover tubes. Force the brush bristles into the holes to clear them. Pay special attention to the holes leading from the ignitor box to the peak of the burner and the holes leading from the top of the burner to the Crossover tube. Information technology's difficult to calorie-free the grill and the secondary burners when these holes are chock-full.

It's common for some holes in the top of the burner to remain clogged afterward brushing. Utilise an eyeglass directly bract screwdriver or opened paper clip to punch down into these holes to clear droppings.

When the burners are clean, they should fire with generally blue flames every bit shown in the photograph above. If you are unable to clear chock-full burner tube holes or if the burners or Crossover tubes are showing signs of farthermost rust damage, information technology may be fourth dimension to replace them.

Scrape The Lower Firebox

Scraping the lower firebox
Scraping the lower firebox
Dirty vs clean lower firebox
Dirty vs clean lower firebox
Clean lower firebox
Clean lower firebox

Use a narrow putty pocketknife to scrape the sides and lesser of the lower firebox below the burner tubes. Push the debris into the tray in the bottom of the grill. Apply a compressed air duster to remove debris from any hard-to-reach spots.

Castor Within The Lid

Flaking carbonized grease inside lid
Flaking carbonized grease within hat
Brushing inside of lid
Brushing inside of lid

Utilize a grill brush or wad of aluminum foil to remove any flaking material within the grill chapeau. These flakes are carbonized grease that builds up during grill and eventually flakes off. It is non rust, paint or the porcelain enamel finish coming off.

Reinstall The Flavorizer Bars & Cooking Grates

Reinstalling the Flavorizer bars and cooking grates
Reinstalling the Flavorizer bars and cooking grates

With everything within the firebox cleaned, it'southward time to reinstall the Flavorizer confined and cooking grates. You may wish to reinstall the Flavorizer confined in a different order so they wear out more evenly, swapping center bars for edge bars or whatsoever makes sense to you lot based on how you apply your grill.

Make clean The Lesser Tray & Baste Pan

Dirty bottom tray and drip pan
Dingy bottom tray and drip pan
Scraping debris from bottom tray into a garbage bag
Scraping debris from bottom tray into a garbage bag
Greasy drip pan and foil liner
Greasy drip pan and foil liner
Clean bottom tray and drip pan with new foil liner
Clean lesser tray and drip pan with new foil liner

The shape and size of the lesser tray varies by grill model. Some are narrow and porcelain enamel coated like the ane shown hither. Some are made of stainless steel. On older grills like Genesis k, the lesser tray serves as the entire lesser of the grill box. The point is that your bottom tray may expect quite unlike from the 1 shown here.

Remove the bottom tray from the grill. Use a putty pocketknife to scrape the tray contents into a garbage bag, then apply paper towels to remove any leftover grease. Remove and discard the foil drip pan liner and use paper towels to remove any liquid grease that made its way past the liner. Remove any bracket that holds the drip pan and wipe with paper towels to remove major droppings and grease.

Wash the bottom tray, drip pan and bracket in hot, soapy h2o. Dry the parts thoroughly. Reassemble the pan and subclass with the tray, install a new foil drip pan liner, and reinstall the tray under the grill.

Clean The Work Surfaces

Clean stainless steel work surface
Clean stainless steel work surface

If your grill has stainless steel work surfaces, clean them using a expert quality stainless cleaner like Weiman Stainless Steel Cleaner or Sheila Shine. See Cleaning Stainless Steel for a detailed discussion of this topic.

If your grill has plastic work surfaces, clean them with Simple Green or Regal Power. If stained, endeavour using a scrubber sponge with these cleaners or a Mr. Make clean Magic Eraser. Use ArmorAll protectant to give the surface a shiny, like-new appearance.

If your grill has wooden work surfaces, bones cleaning can be accomplished by brushing with warm, soapy water then rinsing and drying thoroughly. All-encompassing staining requires sanding and refinishing the surface.

Clean The Outside Of The Lid

0000 steel wool and Simple Green cleaner
0000 steel wool and Elementary Green cleaner
Gently scrubbing surface with 0000 steel wool and Simple Green
Gently scrubbing surface with 0000 steel wool and Uncomplicated Dark-green
Partially cleaned lid using 0000 steel wool
Partially cleaned lid using 0000 steel wool

If your grill has a stainless steel hat, clean it using a proficient quality stainless cleaner like Weiman Stainless Steel Cleaner or Sheila Smoothen. See Cleaning Stainless Steel for a detailed word of this topic.

If your grill has a porcelain enamel coated chapeau, use Simple Green or Royal Power to remove crud. To deep clean the lid, apply 0000 super-fine steel wool with these cleaners, scrubbing gently to restore the original shiny enamel terminate. Wipe residue with a clammy fabric and dry thoroughly. See Cleaning Porcelain Enamel With Steel Wool for details and photos of the process.

Make clean The Control Knobs & Panel

Cleaning a control knob
Cleaning a control knob
Cleaning the control panel
Cleaning the control console
Cleaned control panel
Cleaned control console

The burner control knobs and panel on your grill may vary from the 1 shown hither, but the cleaning process is the same. Remove the knobs past pulling them away from the control panel. Clean the knobs and the panel using Windex or Uncomplicated Green, then replace the knobs.

A Clean Auto, Ready For Grilling

A clean Weber Summit 450 gas grill
A make clean Weber Summit 450 gas grill

To terminate the job, wipe the frame, cabinet and LP tank with a clammy material to remove whatsoever grime. Now step back and behold your clean machine…so fire it upward and grill something delicious!

Ordering Replacement Parts

As you lot go through the deep cleaning procedure, examine the condition of each part. If y'all need replacement parts, many tin can be ordered from Amazon.com which helps support this blog. However, some specialized parts may have to be ordered direct from Weber.com at 800-446-1071 or from online sources similar eReplacementParts.com or GrillStuff.com.

Source: https://virtualwebergasgrill.com/2015/08/deep-cleaning-your-weber-gas-grill/

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