well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm gonna review how I actually clean my barbecue
grates I've got four of them here from my brawl King I've had this barbecue for three years these
are cast iron grates and yeah they're starting to rough start and fall apart and yeah you can
season them all you want and that kind of stuff but you know what if you don't use the barbecue
for extended periods of time like over the winter you know what they're just gonna rust
up on you and you know sometimes you forget to go outside and oil them up and all that kind of
stuff right but this is them right here and you could see how you know it's starting to rust and
flake and everything else so how do you clean these things right and you know they get pretty
grungy over time and a lot of people don't want to clean them and they say you know what she's
gonna go store buy some new ones try and buy these ones they're like if you can get them on
sale it's a hundred bucks for four of these so I'm gonna show you exactly what I do what I use and a
little bit of tip at the end here on something that I do that maybe a lot of yous guys don't
do is I use my sand blaster so I'm gonna clean these here and I'll show you what I use hold on
a sec okay this is it right here I love this easy off where you can get a generic brand whatever it
is I'm gonna spray these all down I'll show you me doing that and I let them sit for about 20
minutes and then I go out in the driveway and I hose them off and then we're gonna take one of
the greats the worst one which is the top when that was rusty the most and that's on the far
side that a lot of times I don't even use that great but I'm gonna show you what it looks like
when you sandblast it and that's the main thing because once they start to get rusty it's almost
impossible trying to you know get in them angles because they are on an angle and get in there and
clean them properly because the rust will just come back on yeah you know even more next time
and at a hundred bucks a pop for buying grates you know what it's better to service them properly so
let's get to it and let's start spraying these down okay you can see the setup but I have and
guys just shake this stuff up a bit make sure you got your doors open on your place just spray them
quick and you know it is quite a lot of fumes from this make sure you got your gloves on and
keep your gloves on until you've completely washed them all and that kind of stuff you got
to think a little bit of safety and yeah it's just as easy as just spraying it on like this
it doesn't take a lot of time you can see how easy this is going on you don't got to
go crazy now what I'm gonna do is I am gonna flip them over and do the other side as well
and that's pretty well let now I will leave them on both sides sprayed for about 20 minutes I'll
come back and I'll show you it looks like when they're just washed off well the 20 minutes is
up I'll just show you here I got all the four traits here and I'm just gonna sandblast one
and actually this is the worst one here yeah they're still kind of wet and everything but
you know what I don't even know if you guys can actually even see the rusting on here it's kind
of hard to show but you know what once the rusting starts it's just like a cast-iron
frying pan yeah you got to work at it too Reese's in it again and I'm just going to show you one of
these after I sandblast it and you guys take a look at the difference and I do this once a
year because I'll tell you what I don't know how anybody else does it professionally seasoning
your grills and everything else and keeping them oiled and maintained and everything else
I've tried it you know what they all seem to rust on me so I'll bring you back when
this one here is all sandblasted well that's about ten minutes of sandblasting actually I
don't have any sand in here I'm using crushed glass guys the crushed glass is not as good
as other media and but it does good enough job what I need and I seem to prefer a lot
better but no it's not as aggressive as the other stuff out there let's just take a look
okay so let's go over to the bench here and I'll show you the difference before and after use guys
take a look and tell me what you think well let's just take a look now if you take a look at these
ones compared to you could see the rust in there hey guys and she looks pretty nasty on the other
side so here's the one that I did and we'll take a look on the other side and yeah it still looks
a little bit rusty and everything but you know what if you don't do nothing to it you know what
you're not gonna get any results at all so this here is good enough for me and I'm gonna oil them
all up again and really you're only cooking on the top size here anyways right but if you don't
maintain them guess what's gonna happen you're gonna be spending a hundred bucks about every
three years well what do you think look okay to you you know I just do this every year takes me
about five minutes on every great I put them out there and i season them up just like you would
like they say in the instructions or if you have cast iron where the same thing really you just got
to keep moiled and do your best at making them last these will never last a lifetime I bet you
I get maybe ten years out of these tops but if I didn't do anything to it guys they just rust
away to nothing so thanks for joining me here today and hope you like this little bit of a
bit on how I clean cast iron barbecue grates these guys take care of now and come back again a Cheers