Are BBQ Grill Brushes Dangerous?
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2019
- Grill brushes have been in the news a lot lately. The bristles can come loose and end up in your food, then in your mouth. They can be hard to get out and require surgery to remove. That doesn't sound like fun, but I was curious how often it happened and investigated the frequency.
We all engage in risky activities every day. We can mitigate that risk by wearing a helmet when we ride a bike or use sunscreen before we go outside. This video shows a few tips on how you can reduce your risk of ingesting bristles or avoid the issue all together with some alternatives.
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Informative, to the point... no annoying music plus the way you narrate is pleasing to the ear... thanks and great job
Thanks for the super clear and informative video. Love your style of presentation.
Very informative, thank you. That had not even occurred to me as a potential hazard of grilling.
I think it's important to be aware of so you can watch out for it. Grill safe!
Thank you for your time. I love your use of statistics to prove your points. I work in the ER as a DNP and thus have seen people who burned themselves with their grills. I never understood how people could burn themselves on a grill. That until My grill actually caught on fire because I didn’t clean it and that’s what led me to your videos. I almost burned my house. It was a big scary thing. I wish I would have watched your videos sooner. Thank you again
I think everyone has to do that at least once. I've cranked up the grill after cooking something greasy and got a bad surprise. Luckily, it was 10 feet from the house and on concrete. I'm glad you and your house made it through. It's my hope that someone watches and prevents a disaster in their own life.
Love the risk articulated in satisitics. Thank you much.
Great info!! I use the Weber brush, but now I'm going to be a lot more diligent checking it before I use it.
I'm going to make a video on how I made a grill grate soaking tub out of a hot water tank overflow. I'll shoot you the link when I make it.
It's better to be safe than sorry. I'd love to see your grill soaking tub.
Very important information 👍 Thanks Ryan
Glad to share it. I've found lots of people that didn't know that they should watch out for grill bristles.
Excellent information and very well presented.
Thanks for the support and watching. . . and congrats on your 100th show.
Thank you man! Top content!
Good video. I have had a few comments about using brushes as well. I will send them to this video next time :)
Thanks Lasse. It does happen, but you can reduce your risk by buying good brushes and sending the to an early retirement.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, David. Be safe on the grill!
GrillFloss! Hands down for steel grates! Switched after bristle concerns... never looking back.
Very good information Nd in-depth research. I think it is the dollar store grill brushes that are the culprit.
I also believe that the reports of how dangerous they are are great exaggerated. I don’t have a gas grill I usually scrub my grates while they are off of the grill, then rinse them off with s garden hose before placing them back on the grill. Therefore even if a bristle was to come loose and stick to the grate, the rinsing process removes it before grilling.
This video, like all your videos, is “top” notch.
Thanks, Lew. I took the grates of my gas grill scrubbed them, hosed them off, and then scraped them again. I didn't want to take a chance I missed one!
Nicely done video! I have completely gone away from the bristle brushes to clean my grates a few years back. I use what I call my charcoal canoe paddle ( wooden scraper ) or the coiled brushes only. I use a bristle brush to clean the inside of the pit only. I felt that it was a simple fix to just use a different style then to add another statistic to the list of possible dangers. I talk about this in a few of my videos also and glad you are bringing this up to your viewers!! I roll the dice enough in just normal every day activities so it was easy to just toss the bristle brushes in the trash. Thanks for sharing!
We all have a few risky things that we do and it is nice to take things off that list. I've used the paddle too and it works really well for the round stainless grates. Thank you for helping people understand the dangers.
Great info bro. I have one of good ones you used. But I'm thinking of going with the onion deal now !
Thank you.
Several people swear by using onions. Give it a go and see if you like it.
@@GrillTopExperience Maybe this is a stupid question but can an onion ruin the porcelain-coating on a porcelain-coated cast iron grate? Thank you and great video.
Thanks for the tip.
Grill safe and often my friend!
You can still get splinters from the wooden grate cleaners.
Good analysis on this trend. Best take away for me is buy a quality grill brush and avoid any brushes with plastic heads. I think your assumption that 30% of the grillers use wire brushes is way too low I would guess that 90% probably use wire brushes. Thanks for fact filled succinct video
Great idea on tugging on the bristles!
Agreed 100% We suggest you avoid the cleaning hassle (we all know how much we hate cleaning our grills every time) and try us out!
Ha, ha! Neither of us would want to use one of those public park grills!
@@GrillTopExperience Well, going forward you don't have to :) - We are launching this summer, hoping to change outdoor grilling safety for good!
I use the wire brush to start with but then I finish it off with the course side of a sponge that's almost like sandpaper in the sink with dish soap ...I can't see how bristles could possibly be left behind that I would miss.
The 12" Weber brush is the only one I use. The bristles have NEVER come loose, and performs the best. I use them on all of my grills, bbq's and smokers. Hands down its the best.
Great video Grill top experience
Thank you for watching and for the support!
I saw an episode "monsters inside me" relating to this. Dude almost died. ..intestinal blockage, vomiting stool and blood, bloated, 104 fevers, pain from hell. The culprit?: 1 inch grill brush strand consumed at a recent bbq. Now i know why you see mostly nylon brushes in stores
The first time I ingested a wire bristle was the last time any of my cooking surfaces ever saw a wire brush! An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I prefer to use the burn and steam method, and I always season my grill before cooking and burn and oil after I cook. Using cleaning products do nothing to kill bacteria and damage the seasoning of your cooking surface.
I have a triangular Weber wire brush and the bristles are firmly attached to the instrument. So the risk of finding one of these tiny devils on your gril is low. To add to security, I apply the wood brush just after having cleaned the BBQ with the wire Weber. This way, if by unlikely misfortune a bristle was to make its way to the grill, it would be removed.
If you are witness of any wire on the grill, discard the brush without delay.
There are small and relatively cheap metal detector on the market. Using them on your meat once cooked maybe could help.
I use a solid metal scraper like those used for paint prep.
Does it work well on round grates or just the flat ones?
@@GrillTopExperience Works best on flat grates but still works on round ones.
What do you think about coarse steel scouring pads vs the pumice stones?
They work, but they don't seem to work as well. It'll just take more elbow grease. You also have to clean up after the pumice stone since it leaves stuff behind.
My aunt had to have her neck cut open to get a grill brush wire out of her esophagus. She was a wreck for months.
I have the other side of the grates facing up! Have I been using the wrong side? Does it matter? (It came assembled)
Weber says flat side up. It should make it easier to stay non stick. I've seen plenty do it pointy side up though.
Thank you for providing the perspective on the relative probabilities of various accidents. Our culture has lost its ability to think critically about anything at all.
If I saw it in Facebook it must be true. One data point I don't have is the number of people who eat a bristle, but spot it out before they get hurt. There are a lot more of those running around.
Wait til you tell them safety doesn't exist. Mushroom ☁️
I no longer use wire brushes. I use one of those wooden scrapers. Years ago I cleaned my grate with the wire brush and thankfully checked the grate before putting on the food. There were lose wire bristles on it. Could’ve been very bad. Never again.
I've used wooden scrapers too. They work pretty well once you burn the grooves in. Good catch on the wires on the grate! They are hard to see.
don’t use shitty grill brushes and you’ll be alright 🤷♂️
Woah, if a leaf from a pineapple pulls out easy it means it’s ready.
I can be carful cutting the grass.
I can be carful on a trampoline.
But I can’t see that one metal bristle that could get in my body and I don’t want any part of that.
Good Video I am using a wooden grill cleaner Do you think these are okay?
Plank's work great and a few people have suggested them in the comments. I should have included that one as an example. I'll get one in and test it!
Been using a cedar plank to clean my grills for two years. Once they "burn in" they actually conform to your grill pattern and you can even do one on the side and you will eventually be able to clean the underside of your grill grates as well.
It's the bees knees.
My niece got a bristle stuck in her throat.
Wire breaks off in small pieces eventually.
I had a former coworker who got a bristle from one of those grill cleaners stuck in his intestines and it dang near killed him. That’s enough for me I’m not using a bristle grill cleaner.
It happened to me ! I’ll never use another grill brush!
I'm curious . . . Do you know if it was a cheap brush or one that should have been tossed out a long time ago? It can certainly happen to anyone unless you use one of the other methods!
It was one we have had for awhile. But I don’t think it was old cos we bought it when we bought our new grill about a year ago. I have to go to the dr tomorrow because my back keeps hurting even though the bristle came out
A clean grill is a Happy Grill! Nicely done!
Thanks Tom. No one's grill is as clean as yours!
Statistics and odds are great to have but you have to think about the trade off. Even if the odds are one in a billion, would you like to be the one?
Everything we do has some risk associated with it. We can avoid some risk, others can't be eliminated completely. While no one would want to be the one, we each live our lives making the best choices we can.
I. Just use foil crumpled.
A lot of people like using that. It's inexpensive, and you toss it when you are done.
The pineapple thing isn’t right, the best way to pick a pineapple is color, the more yellow the better, leaves will come out of green pineapples too, you want yellow but watch out for orange/brown
Thanks for the grill info
Everyone has their tricks. The same is true with bbq.
Bristle Free Brush, thats all Folks. You have to use water with the kona brush
I thought you just heat up da grill and use half an onion to clean it never used a brush this us news to me
The onion trick works well too. You wont get any bristles in your food with that!
I think you are overstating the statistical risk from bristle bbq brushes. Can you show me your math on your calculations? I think you assumed 80mm ppl grilled per year... but did you account for multiple cookouts per year by those 80mm people?
I didn't want to get accused of saying there is no risk since it does happen. I don't have good data that could be used to calculate the risk of an individual cookout. 80M people a year grill and the number of injuries was also per year. I would guess that more than 30% of people use grill brushes too. That also overstates the risk.
More research needs to be done. Are most of the injuries caused by cheap brushes or expensive ones? No one knows because it hasn't been studied.
DON'T USE WIRE BRUSHES 😂
You could use more of your voice, its like ur talking in bedroom i dont understand why
Best part about this video was how to tell a bad Pineapple from a good one😎👍