Clean-up

[greazy]

I use both ECB's and the Smoke Vault. I enjoy the cooking and most certainly the results. Unfortunately, clean-up of either is a wall-eyed bee itch.

Question: What is the easiest way you have found to clean the things after use?

Question: When my wallet next begins to leap out of my pocket, what type smoker affords the easiest clean-up?

 

[Deer Meat]

All you need to do is take a plastic putty knife and scrape all the heavy crap of the bottom and sides of the smoker. clean the racks in a dishwasher if you can for an easy cleaning job. If not, hot soapy water and elbow grease in the sink works also. You don't want to take all the black seasoning off, then you will need to re-season your smoker. A pressure washer will also make quick work of cleaning your grates.

 

[bbq bubba]

Clean a smoker??? That's flavor baby!! Just clean the racks/grill's and foil your pans for easy clean-up next time!

 

[gypsyseagod]

line the bottom w/ aluminum foil just like an oven. the racks- set out in the sun w/ simple green then dawn w/ hot water wash. never clean the walls or ceiling w/ anything if ya cook often enough- like bubba said thats seasoning/flavor.

 

[johnd49455]

Ya What BBQ Bubba said

 

[deejaydebi]

My Smoke Vault is easy I wipe the grates and they come pretty clean the walls I wipe with paper towels or a brass brush for heavy stuff.

The ECB I have to use the brass brush it's olde and rustier.

 

[wvsmokeman]

I agree!

 

[flash]

LOL, well my ECB is going on 28 + years now and has NEVER gotten a bath. Probably why it has not rusted away. At anyrate, foil the water pan for easy clean up. I don't bother with the charcoal pan. Clean the grates, that's it.

 

[jamesb]

On the WSM, I use sand in the pan covered with foil. After a cook, I just fold up the foil and toss it... The grates usually get cleaned in the dish washer after a good scraping.

My offset pits are too big to line with foil etc... I have a garden hoe that I use just for scraping the gunk out of the bottom of my big ugly pit. My other pit is a reverse flow with a plate running through most of the cook chamber and the grease usually collects on that. I just scrape the gunk off of it with a wide putty knife.

For the food grates on the offsets, I usually just hit them with the weed burner and then wire brush. About once a year the pits get treated to a high pressure hot water wash.... It's not the most fun part of cooking BBQ, but it really ain't that bad.

James.

 

[deejaydebi]

OKay here it goes. As some of you may know I melted my burner on my smoke vault last Sunday and it spewed soot everywhere. It had to be 1/8" thick all over the inside of the smoker. I don't have an outside faucet right now and trying to to clean this mess with a bucket was just out of the question. Well what a poor girl to do?

I threw the smoker in the back of the truck and brought it to the the car wash. Worked great! Looks brand new again. I didn't notice but they also have a degreaser on the selection as well I just used the soap and water selections and it was good enough.

BTW I went to the Auto Zone and got some gas cleaner and injector cleaner and the Dakota is running good again. Only drove it a few miles but no power loss. I guess I was right - it was a bad tank of gas.

 

[dejacks]

I heard that!!

 

[linescum]

i power wash my racks and thats it