Vintage Weber Summit - Looks Clean - Chicagoland Area

[Jon Tofte]

You might try this one from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H3DPXK4?tag=tvwb-20

There used to be a Dawn product that Members Mark was basically a knock off of. I can’t remember the name.

 

[John-NY]

Alternatives would a lye bath or maybe some other inexpensive grill cleaner. The sams works great because you get three big (I think quart) bottles for $10. You can pour them into a rectangular plastic tub, just big enough to lay the grates in and let them soak for a couple days. Using something like easy off would get awful expensive.

I ended up trying this concoction:

-Hot water
-Dawn dish soap
-Baking Soda
-Vinegar

I let porcelain cast iron grates soak in there along with a rusted chain.

Check out these results on the chain without any scrubbing or otherwise.

The left rusty side was left outside the liquid. The right side was submerged.

 

[Steve Hoch]

I ended up trying this concoction:

-Hot water
-Dawn dish soap
-Baking Soda
-Vinegar

I let porcelain cast iron grates soak in there along with a rusted chain.

Check out these results on the chain without any scrubbing or otherwise.

The left rusty side was left outside the liquid. The right side was submerged.

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The chain looks great, how did the grates turn out?

 

[John-NY]

The chain looks great, how did the grates turn out?

The ones with just grease turned out really well. The ones with really bad chunks of hard charred stuff did not remove those chunks, but did make it easier for me to scrape them off with a metal scraper. Then I went over all the grates with the pressure washer and that got them pretty much good as new.

I will definitely be using this method to do bulk amounts of grates in the future.

 

[Steve Hoch]

I pressure wash mine first, then use various size wire wheels in my drill. After that I run them through the dishwasher and they are like new again until that first cook.