Summer means late-night barbecues, the smell of grilled meats and vegetables and good meals with friends. But who says barbecue, also says headache to clean it. It’s not always easy to remove encrusted grease and other dirt from these grills. To make your job easier, here are 6 grandmother’s tips for cleaning your barbecue more easily.
1. Baking soda and white vinegar
This is the ideal recipe for cleaning your barbecue in the blink of an eye. These two natural products are particularly effective against dirt. Together they will give you a super powerful stripper that you can use on your grill or oven. Be careful not to breathe, however. Use gloves to protect yourself, then apply the mixture using a brush. Once it has worked, the fat will come off much more easily.
2. Heat and newspaper
The worst enemy of grease that has accumulated on your barbecue grills: heat. To clean it thoroughly, all you have to do is relight your barbecue and wait carefully for it to melt. You will then just need to use newspaper, rolled into a ball, to rub the residue and make it disappear permanently.
3. Hard brush
As we have just seen, carbonizing fat is a super simple tip to get rid of it more quickly. But sometimes you’ll need a little more than elbow grease to scrape off the scraps that have stuck to the grate. Your best ally will be a simple hard brush with steel bristles. For example, you will find a set of 3 (with different sizes, to adapt to your barbecue) on promotion in the Auchan catalog to come.
4. Onion
Did you know that onion is a natural degreaser. If you have some left over from what you used for your skewers, don’t hesitate to cut it in half and rub it directly on the hot grill. The grease will come off without difficulty.
5. Aluminum foil
Aluminum foil isn’t just handy for grilling your barbecue potatoes. You can also roll it into a ball and use it to vigorously scrub your barbecue. You’ll see, it’s a very effective grandmother’s tip for removing encrusted grease. And it also works for your oven racks!
6. The Cola
We end this list of grandma’s best tips for cleaning your barbecue with a surprise ally. Coca-Cola also acts on fat. To benefit from its astonishing powers, simply pour a bottle into a large garbage bag. Then slide the grease in and let it act for one to two hours! You will see that the result is surprising!
No more need for chemicals to clean your barbecue, or even scrubbing your grills for hours. These tips will allow you to find a brand new barbecue after each use, and to enjoy the rest of your evening peacefully!