try putting them in the self cleaning cycle of your oven. Clean as a
whistle.

Walt

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 03:12:56 -0500, Leon Manfredi >
wrote:

>
>For cast iron grates, if you have a fireplace that you can place grills into,
>bring the cast iron up to a enough of a glow, just enough to cinder everything off.
>
>Did this with my gas grill once, by covering grill up to one inch of their edges,
>with aluminum foil...worked beautifully. Second time I over did it.
>Left them on too long, sagged the cast iron slightly.
>
>
>On 1 Feb 2004 17:36:45 -0500, (Mark Shaw) wrote:
>
>>I recall seeing a new gas grill in a store once that had an
>>interesting accessory. It was essentially a scraper for the
>>cast iron grates; one just wide enough to get down into the
>>spaces in them. It looked like the idea was to run it back
>>and forth in the space, cleaning out all the crusties in one
>>or two passes. The thing was shaped such that it would get
>>the top of the grates clean at the same time as well.
>>
>>Oh, it was also made out of cast iron, I suppose so that it
>>would be heavy enough to work and soft enough not to damage
>>the grates.
>>
>>Anyone ever seen anything like this? I doubt they'd be
>>commonly available, because of differences in grate dimen-
>>sions -- any ideas on something that could be fabricated to
>>do the same thing?



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