hey everybody welcome back Phillip
Bridges here now today I'm going to show
you how how to pretty much clean up
pellet grill it's something that you
have to do every once in a while when
you have a pellet grill and I think a
lot of people neglect or forget about it
and I'm going to show you how to clean
it and it's pretty simple to do it is
kind of a long process depending on how
dirty your grill is but you know
something you got to do and get it done
and you got to make sure that you get
you know you want to make sure that the
pellet grill is cleaned all the time
that way your cooking temperatures don't
fluctuate and everything like that so
let's get on into it
the pellet girl I have is the Green
Mountain Daniel Boone pellet grill and
we'll open it up and as you can see it's
pretty dirty
I have cleaned it a couple times here
and there I just did a brisket last week
and then I grilled on it a couple more
times throughout the week so you know it
kind of needs to be cleaned so what
we're gonna do is we're gonna you want
to take off these grills and get a I
have a rubber Rubbermaid container or
just a plastic bin and make sure you
have one of those it's pretty pretty
handy to have and just set everything in
there you just want to that way
everything is just not laying out you
just grab it and that way you can just
set everything in there and then don't
worry about getting everything dirty see
how dirty it is put all that stuff in
there
try and do this all with one hand all
right
okay now everything's in the Rubbermaid
then you can easily I got a bigger bin
to put everything in wash it I'm going
to soak everything for a couple hours in
hot water I like to really get it all
cleaned up and I throw some degreaser in
with it and but this is the main thing
that we want if I don't know if you can
see this but you you have all these
pellet ashes down in the hopper third
well the burn area and ashes around it
we need to vacuum that up so you want to
grab a shot back and vacuum it all up my
choice of shot vac is my Milwaukee
backpack because it's easy to use and
can just quickly dispose of the ashes by
taking the container out so I'm going to
shop back this up
alright now we have the inside cleaned
out and vacuumed there's one more thing
that I really want to show you guys that
I really think people neglect when they
clean their pellet grills is the chimney
so let's take a look at the chimney
alright so the chimney I take the
chimney off we unscrew it and look at
look at how nasty that is I'm gonna
throw that in with all this stuff and
we're gonna we're gonna clean it and if
we look down the chimney hole there's
just a lot of a lot of silt up and
everything so what we're going to do is
we're going to take one of these little
brushes like this and I'm going to clean
the inside the top and the bottom of the
the chimney because I
I don't know if you can see but inside
here is just a build up of set and we
want to get rid of that so I'm gonna
take I'm gonna scrub it all down and
then I'm gonna take the shop back and
shot back that out - all right now every
we have everything cleaned up and we're
ready to reinstall all the greats back
into the grill
the first great that you're gonna want
to reinstall is it's this big pan and
the art this little arch you want to
place it over the auger that's inside
and we want to place this about Center
if we place it Center we're gonna get
pretty much an even cooking area around
the whole surface of the grill now we
can move this grate right to left and
that's going to determine if we're gonna
have different hotspots in the grill so
if we move it to the right correct me if
I'm wrong in the comments below you're
going to get a slower cooking
temperature throughout the whole thing
it's you're not going to have hot spots
anywhere it's gonna kind of you know
defer the heat you know to the outside
of the grill
now the next great that we insert is is
this one and it's gonna have a lip on it
two lips on actually one on each end and
then you're going to have the neural
arch and what we're we want to place
this neural towards the left side on the
auger side and it's going to slant
towards the right side and there are
little lips on each side of the grill
and we want to get them set in there and
but we want to keep it
just we want to make sure that we don't
hit the have the the great right up
against the sensor on the left side we
want to make sure that we have a little
gap in between it just so the sensor
doesn't get bumped or anything like that
alright now that we have that installed
we take the strip pan grate and we're
going to place it over the other great
it's just going to sit right on top and
we can line up the holes with the other
holes of the grate and that's gonna
that's going to allow the heat to come
through a lot quicker now if we want the
heat to come through a little bit slower
we're gonna offset those holes and now
the would want to do that if we were
doing like if we're slow cooking a
brisket or a pork shoulder just doing a
long smoke you know you don't want you
want that heat to slowly come through
but for right now for our girl the
grilling purpose that we're gonna do for
just grilling burgers and stuff we're
just gonna line up the holes evenly just
dead on center of each just so the heat
comes through nice even flow heat and
the last thing we're gonna do is we're
gonna put our grates back in our top
grace set those in what you're also
going to want to do after you get this
all installed and reset everything reset
back up you're gonna want to run it I
usually would I do after because I use
degreaser and everything on I let it run
at 500 for about 20 minutes just to let
everything burn off and then it'll clean
helps clean the grill grates off a
little bit more and lets you get
everything ready for when you grill up
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