The easiest way to clean a grill is clean it when it is hot. Fire the grill up and wait till the fire dies down and the coals are hot. Take a brass wire brush and scrub the grill. All the cooked grease will come off easy. Plus
the grill is completely sterile from the fire.
Slow grilling is the way to go. Take a 9X12 metal bread pan and place it on the bottom of the grill. Fill the pan with coke, beer or water. Pile the charcoal around the pan and light. The meat will cook a lot slower because it's not directly over the heat. Plus the liquid in the pan makes whatever you are grilling extra tender.
Smoking is easy. This is not true smoking but rather a smoke flavor. Take some small hardwood tree limbs
and saw them into 1 inch slices. I use an electric miter saw. Oak, Hickory, Apple, Pecan are really good.
Take the slices of hardwood and soak them in water while you are waiting for the grill to get hot. The water makes the wood smoke good. The water also makes the wood smoke longer.
You can bake potatoes or corn on a grill. Just wrap them in heavy duty foil and turn every 5 minutes for about 30 minutes.
If you are out of charcoal, you can use hardwoood. All you need to grill is a bed of coals. Chunks or slices of hardwood works great. You don't ever want to use cedar or pine. These wood will give the meat a bad taste.
That's all I can think of for now.
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Great start for this category!
You are right on the money, Randy, about cleaning the grill while it's hot. It beats the heck out of waiting til it's caked over. Thanks for being the first entry in this new category.