Brillo Review & How To Clean Your Grill

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Brillo products are not just for cleaning cookware and may be your new favorite cleaning product if you spend time grilling. Several options from Brillo, including their signature Brillo Steel Wool Soap Pads, the new Brillo Heavy Duty Soap Pads, or the Brillo Heavy Duty Scour Pads can help cut through the built up grease and grime and make cleaning your grill fast and easy.  Since leftover food particles on the cooking surface are a breeding ground for bacteria and can make people sick, it is really important to have a clean grill. 

How to Clean Your Grill
1. Remove cooking grates from grill and scrub with warm water and a Brillo Steel Wool Soap Pad or Heavy Duty Scour Pad.
2. For cooked-on, hard-to-clean surfaces turn Brillo sideways and scrub across the grain of the pad
3. If it's a charcoal grill, remove the coal grate and brush out the insides
4. For gas grills remove briquettes, lava rocks, or metal flame shield to expose burner. Clean ash and residue from around burner, be sure burner is in place when finished cleaning
5. Rinse grates, reassemble grill, and allow to air dry 
6. For coated grill exteriors and more delicate surfaces use Brillo Estracell No Scratch Sponge with Wedge Edge

Brillo Review: My husband does all the grilling. Really, I do not even know how to turn it on. So, when I went to clean it I was aghast at how filthy it was. Seriously, hubby, you have been putting food on this?!!

After I got over the initial shock and disgust, I went to work cleaning the grates with Brillo Heavy Duty Soap Pads. After soaking them in hot water, it still took some serious scrubbing but the Brillo pads did a nice job of getting what was probably a few seasons of gunk off the grates. The steel wool was the perfect material for scrubbing these babies - a lesser sponge would have crumbled - literally. The wool would catch the burnt on grease and rub it right off and the areas that were not completely charred came so clean that I was reminded the grates are supposed to be silver - not black! The one on the right pictured below was scrubbed while the untouched one on the left is a nice reminder of why you need to clean your grill! By the way, I was kind of diggin' the retro-look of the Brillo soap pads box!

I was also given some Estracell sponges to try out. We have been using the yellow and green Heavy Duty sponges since we moved into this house. They are perfect for doing dishes and work great for doing spot clean ups on the counter. There is a tougher green side for when you need to scrub and a softer yellow side perfect for wiping. They hold up quite well and we tend to get at least a month's use out of each sponge. After a week or so, I tend to run the sponge through the dishwasher to avoid bacteria build-up.  The Estracell No Scratch Sponges worked great for more heavy duty cleaning. There were two kitchen sponges and one bathroom sponge per pack. I loved the color differences - as long as you can remember that purple is bathroom you won't accidentally use your bathroom one in the kitchen...yuck! They also had a softer side and tougher side and did a great job cleaning all of my kitchen and bathroom surfaces. 

Buy it here: You can purchase Brillo products at your local mass merchant.

*I was provided with the above mentioned products for the purpose of facilitating this review. All opinions expressed are my own.