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NEVER use grill cleaners that use steel bristles. EVER.
It's been long known that these bristles come loose and pose a danger. I'm rather shocked that they are still being sold, but here we are.
THIS is the grill brush I use. It's very effective and much safer to use.
Sweet, thanks for the recommendation!
For anyone searching, don't do what I did and typo "bbw daddy".
Typo? 😏
I don’t need to search for that. That’s what I already am!
I use a chainmail style grill brush. Pretty solid, does the thing.
This is the one I use
This was one I was looking at when I decided upon the one I got. The main reason why I went with it was due to it using a metal surface.
Is yours usable when the grill is hot?
Yes; you have to get the grill hot for it to work.
Scrub daddy is the best, every product I have used has been high quality.
That will still shed
I have to admit that it is something that concerns me.
My process includes going back over the grates with a wet cloth.
Destin from Smarter Every Day has made a grill brush for this very reason: https://www.smartereveryday.com/smarterscrubber
So I have this one but really wish he sold an attachment that was like a brillo sponge. The chainmail is cool and all be doesn't really clean my smoker grill all that well
Unfortunately this guy has turned into a hack. His brushes are mostly NOT made in the US.
Source?
His own video of him sourcing and getting them manufactured.
He couldn’t get a decent price from US sources so he tried to source from India(?) or another manufacturing hub. After digging into sources they also turned out to be made in China. Because China is obviously the enemy here /s
He then basically said “oh well we’ll keep trying” while still selling his brushes at an absurd full price.
The video made me uncomfortable.
The point of the video isn't that "China is obviously the enemy", but to highlight how difficult it is to manufacture anything domestically today. China isn't the problem, companies shifting all production to cheaper countries oversees to maximize profit in the problem.
The failure to find the chain highlights how bad the problem is. But they're still selling a high quality not mass produced ready to fail product that should last a lifetime, and it's mostly made domestically.
The video should make you feel uncomfortable because of the state of manufacturing domestically, not because they still made a product with one international part.
I don't have it, and don't plan to buy it for what it's worth, but feels like you're missing the big point.
I know China isn’t the problem, hence the “/s”
Nor am I qualified in any way to suggest any solutions.
What I did get is a bad vibe that wasn’t there before. And I immediately thought that there were a lot of things that could have been disclosed more clearly.
Maybe it’s also my fault for forgetting he is an entertainer first and foremost, and wants to earn money from his efforts.
They're still a better design and they're still built to last.
Throw them away or relegate them to the garage for cleaning rusty car parts and get a metal mesh scrub instead.
Two years ago I had a buddy pick a bristle out of his mouth after I grilled burgers. I was absolutely mortified and tossed the brush immediately. I realized it could’ve been much worse.
I've caught one in the gums before. Don't recommend it.
I at least did it to myself though. I'd feel bad if it got somebody else. I pitched that brush right in the trash.
Damn, I think I have one of those models. I did stop using the bristle side years ago but sometimes use the spring side to wipe Grease.
Unfortunately bristles are very effective and each make conflicting safety claims
They make claims, but my impression is that every bristle brush will start shedding as it ages.
You need a cleaning device with a non-bristle mesh to get rid of the risk
Everything sheds after a while. Even meshes. Its called wear and tear
Yes, but the bristles tend to end with shed bits that puncture peoples digestive systems. Meshes don't seem to do that
How are people still doing this?
If they take grill brushes from law-abiding people then only the criminals will have grill brushes.
It takes a good guy with a metal-bristle grill brush to stop a bad guy with a metal-bristle grill brush 🥂
I don't think it really matters which models have officially be recalled. No matter how well made that type of brush is, you're going to have bristles break off eventually. It's just the nature of that type of tool. I have a couple of friends who are ER nurses, and it seems like every time I see them at a BBQ they've got a new story about people accidentally swallowing a metal bristle that broke off one of those. Apparently it happens a lot, so I stopped using them a long time ago. There are so many other safer types of grill brush out there that there really isn't any reason to. I've got one that's basically a chain mail scrubbing pad on a stick, and another one that's like a loosely coiled spring that can conform to the shape of my grill and clean the gunk in between the grill slats. If you don't have anything else, a ball of wadded up aluminum foil does a pretty good job too. The foil does tend to leave a few flakes of aluminum behind, but at least if you accidentally swallow one of those it won't embed itself in your throat or cut up your digestive tract.
They've got model numbers, sure, but the pictures and descriptions are just the most generic, most common types of grill brushes that you'd find just about everywhere in the US. Could all of the brushes of those styles really have been made by one brand, Nexgrill? Could there really be only on the order of 10 million of them sold in the last 10 years?
How big a risk is this in real terms, compared to other risks we take all the time, anyway? They're admitting to 68 cases and 5 medical interventions (over an unspecified span of time). Meanwhile, over 300,000 people have been killed by automobiles in the US in the last 10 years. The point being, not that you should be careless with an old wire grill brush, but that the Times isn't even trying to put this in perspective. How many man-years of seasonal grilling does it take to get you a 50-50 chance of having this problem? That might be useful to understand.
...he began wiping his cold grill with a wet paper towel before cooking food.
One of the few things I do right in life: I wipe a hot grill with a sopping wet pad of 2-3 paper towels, after cooking. The grease and oil steams off immediately, while it's fresh and the cleaning is easy, and this step takes almost no extra time or effort. And the grill is clean for next time.
You don't have to use paper towels, you can use cotton rags. But they will become so stained that you won't want to use them for any other job.
Rest assured that if the risk is worth it to you, even if they're banned, you'll be able to pick one up under the guise of some other use case.
A better way seems like the choice for most.
Rest assured that if the risk is worth it to you, even if they’re banned, you’ll be able to pick one up under the guise of some other use case.
I described a cheap, safe grill-cleaning system. You're inviting me to go eat needles.
You did, not but before brushing aside the article entirely.
The issue may be real. The article sucks, and it should be brushed aside. What are you contributing, here?
The same as you. Absolutely nothing.
Excellent point.