BURNT GREASE

Thanks David. I thought I did post it in the general forum. I was on my phone when I posted it so I may have been in the wrong forum. 

Thanks everyone who responded. I was trying to get a quick answer when this incident happened so I left a lot of details out.

I was smoking chicken and brats. Had the temp at a steady 290 and the meat was looking and smelling great. I decided to make a quick run to the store and Home Depot as the meat had only been on for about 30 minutes. When I got back home, I smelled an awful smell while standing in the driveway although my grill is in the back of my house. When I got to the grill, I noticed the brats had squirted grease on the wall adjacent to the FB and puddled in the bottom of the grill. When I opened the lid of the grill, an awful smell and yellow smoke billowed into my face. Needless to say, the meat was bitter beyond belief.

After that day, whenever I opened the grill, the horrendous smell of burnt brat grease would escape from the grill. I tried many options to clear the smell but couldn't find one until this past weekend:

THE FIX: I took a lemon and cut it in half. Poured salt on a plate and dipped the lemon into the salt. Scrubbed the interior of the grill until the lemon's face was black from the burnt soot. I then cut the lemon to get a fresh surface and re-dipped the lemon in the salt. I continued doing this until the interior of the grill was completely scrubbed. The smell was removed after doing this and the yellow smoke was no longer visible when burning coal or wood.

Afterwards; I cut up an onion, placed it in foil, soaked it in peanut oil, and punched holes in the foil. I fired up the FB and allowed the onion to work its magic. The next day, I cleaned out the FB and seasoned the interior of the grill with a thin layer of peanut oil.