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I follow Al Bundy's advice. I never clean my grill. "Ashes from the past for burgers of the future."

• logfromblammo 10y ago
  I was going to post exactly this before realizing that someone else undoubtedly posted it before me, and I should upvote them. I will only clean my charcoal grill with some hotter fire and a good whack from the grill spatula. Excess [0] ashes go into a bucket for later non-cooking uses. The carbonized residues on the grill create an ablative non-stick coating for any foods you put on it. Also, they make your grill marks black, when they might otherwise be red from the rust. [0] Excess being defined as so much that the charcoal won't light.