Cruzette
Santa Cruz, CA
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We carry an old BBQ grill grate top, not the whole BBQ just the cooking top. We just place it on top of the CG grill. We store the grill top (once it cools and has been cleaned) in a clean garbage can bag. If you don't have one, try looking at some garage sales.
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Old-Biscuit
Across the USA
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Clean a fire pit grill........are you crazy.
Why remove all that built on flavor enhancing goody stuff. Man, I thought that's what camp fire grilling was all about.
A good hot fire.......slap on the meat......enjoy, crunches and all.
Heck my steaks don't sit on the grill very long anyway.
Knock it's horns off, wipe it's rear-end and run it past the fire (once each side).......done.
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fla-gypsy
North Florida
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I have cooked on them at times and they were fine. Scrub with a heavy wire brush and get it red hot to start with and no worries. In fact one of the best steaks I have ever grilled was done on one. Nothing but red coals left in the pit from an oak fire and a few minutes later it was nirvana.
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SWMO
Southwest Missouri
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You can get a piece of expanded metal to lay on it. I carry a grill now, but at one time just brushed what I could off the public grill and then laid the metal on top of it.
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Happy Prospector
The Great Sonora Desert
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Tazymae wrote:Sometimes those grills at the CG are pretty grungy looking. Does anybody know how to really clean them enough to put some burgers or a couple of steaks??
Foil across it kind of ruins the ambiance of grill marks, etc.
Thank you
Some of those campground grills are pretty grooty looking affairs, you could spend hours trying to clean one of those.
What we take with us is one of the tripod grills with the rack you can lower or raise. When you are done cooking your meal the tripod can be safely removed away from the fire pit.
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Joe_Diamold
Ohio
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Old-Biscuit wrote:Clean a fire pit grill........are you crazy.
Why remove all that built on flavor enhancing goody stuff. Man, I thought that's what camp fire grilling was all about.
A good hot fire.......slap on the meat......enjoy, crunches and all.
Heck my steaks don't sit on the grill very long anyway.
Knock it's horns off, wipe it's rear-end and run it past the fire (once each side).......done.
I'm with you on this. Can't beat the flavor of a steak on a well broke in fire-ring grill. I do a good bit of rotisserie cooking too. We'll take a lambs leg or a nice pork roast with us and use this Brinkmann universal kit I picked up at the HomeDepot a while back. We did a turkey on it for Thanksgiving a few years back while visiting Yosemite. Guy's and gals climbing half dome were probably getting hunger pains from it. Have to say it was one of the best TG dinners ever (sorry ma).
The rotisserie is very easily adapted for most fire-rings and square grills. The shaft comes in several pieces with threaded ends to make it just about any length and the motor draws hardly any power at all. Dry camping in a tent or popup are long over for us but it would make a nice cooking buddy there too. Don't go to the Depot and think you have to spend more, it's only about $50, includes everything you need and the more expensive units are more for use with a big gas grill.
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Ole Man Dan
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If I know I'm going to cook out several days I carry a grill grate a friend made me.
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down home
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I wuz a little hongry. But after reading about diapers in BBQs I may never eat again.
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hokeypokey
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down home wrote:I wuz a little hongry. But after reading about diapers in BBQs I may never eat again.
I will starve to death before I eat anything cooked on a CG fire pit. I actually saw a man urinating on one early one morning. As far as I'm concerned, fire pits are for campground fires ONLY. To each his own.
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raindove
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hokeypokey wrote:down home wrote:I wuz a little hongry. But after reading about diapers in BBQs I may never eat again.
I will starve to death before I eat anything cooked on a CG fire pit. I actually saw a man urinating on one early one morning. As far as I'm concerned, fire pits are for campground fires ONLY. To each his own.
Yes, it makes you wonder how some people live and who raised them. On one of our very first camping trips, we saw a guy with his used sewer hoses on top of the picnic table, snaking a clog out of the hose. Talk about disgusting and a health hazard.
I reported it to the office.
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