Grill Daddy Giveaway
Time’s UP! Winners to be announced shortly.
A few days ago I told you all about my favorite As Seen on TV product, the Grill Daddy. I included a note to the Grill Daddy peeps, just in case they were reading and lo and behold, they came through.
WELCOME TO THE GRILL DADDY GIVEAWAY!
I have been authorized to give away THREE FREE GRILL DADDIES! Whoo hooo!
Here’s the deal: by midnight, Friday, June 13, leave your most descriptive, disgusting and/or funny comment about the crud on your grill and I will choose the three winners and publish them here. My call. Winners must supply a valid mailing address to receive the Grill Daddy. Whille this makes a great Fathers’ Day gift, it’s unlikely they’ll get there in time, so you might want to go ahead and BUY your dad a gift.
OK — go! Good luck. Make me laugh. Or gag. Whatever!
June 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I think there is so much crud on my grill that it’s turned into a griddle! Nothing can seep between the grill bars and my burgers don’t have any flame-broiled lines!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Slimey green on the legs and up to the actual grill which is bubbly black coated, greasy grimy mess.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
You know how you are supposed to go scrape your grill before you put food on it? Because you don’t want any of that leftover food, dirt or other stuff touching your food. Well, when we scrape our grill, all that junk falls down on the coals and burns away, right?
But we also have rack in the lid of our grill. So one time we were cooking hamburgers and my husband noticed that the top rack was really dirty. He absent-mindedly scraped the top rack with the grill spatula and watched as a little shower of rusty METAL powdered our hamburgers.
He thought he could get away with blowing it off the burgers, but when he blew, all the scrapings of a hundred previous grillings billowed up from the coals onto the bottom of our burgers.
Not willing to admit defeat, he served the burgers, displayed prominantly next to bottle of seasoned salt that looked conveniently rust colored.
No one mentioned anything, but now he always remember to scrape the grill before the food is on.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
You’d think, my hubby working in commercial cleaning, cleaning a grill would be a cinch for him. Heck, the man works with floor chemicals all night, so why is a little elbow grease and a wire brush so hard for him to comprehend? Our gas grill is fairly new, but a victim of that stuck on last season gunk, you know, the black stuff that gives your $30 tbone steak the look of school lunch mystery meat after you cook on it without cleaning. Mmm, corn on the cob, with little black flecks…heck, don’t have to add pepper, it already has flavoring. Recently we had company, they noticed our grill, clean on the outside, and wanted to BBQ. Hubby, not knowing what to say, just stood there as they opened the cover and saw those lovely grates in all their blackened glory. Hubby then quickly closed the cover, mumbled about not having any lp gas in the tank and then disappeared for a bit as I stood there contemplating whether I was gonna have to take the grates in and giv’em a good old scrubbing in bathtub… even the hose on full power didn’t release that stuff. Saving the day, here comes hubby, with steaks, charcoal, and a new table top grill…. the BBQ went as planned, and the new grill sits on the porch-next to the gas grill, waiting for a good cleaning. Come and rescue us grill daddy!
June 13th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Our grill has so much crud that my husband had to put aluminum foil on the grill to keep the crud off the food. He pokes holes in it for the grease to escape. I mean what’s the point of grilling?? And sometimes he forgets to close it. There is an arbor above it that birds sit on and well…I don’t care for barbecued bird doo-doo!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:22 am
we wont even GO there. Our grill is bad. Lol. This would be great to win!!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:19 am
I’m the kind of guy who grills out year round. Here in our little Ville in Central Virginia, we get weather where it isn’t bad to get out to grill in January and February. What that means is that spring cleaning for the grill doesn’t happen. So even though I use the copper brush, all that stuff builds up - the cheese from cheeseburgers is the worst, although the 12-hour pork barbeque is pretty bad too, although that’s more in the drippings than in the grill itself. What all this means is that when summer rolls around and I want to experiment with fruit on the grill, it takes a ton of cleaning or my grilled peaches taste like peach flavored hot dogs.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:08 am
You’re supposed to scrape the gunk off your grill? Where’s the flavor?
June 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Spiders everywhere around here—-sometimes I wonder if they get grilled along with the meat. UGH. Adds more protein maybe?!
Every year the grill is a sooty, blackened, scabby looking mess–had to buy a replacement one year– it was sooooo bad.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Lets see…To start out, when you open the grill lid, some sort of insect comes flying out or crawling madly to escape the light. Then when you turn it on (if it turns on) you have to make sure it doesn’t get up to 400 degrees because it begins to belch large amounts of smoke. Then you clean off the crud on the rack which only goes 1/2 inch because it sticks to the black charcol stalagtites underneath. They’re quite impressive. When we’re done with barbeque sauce, or marinate or cheeseburgers and turn it off, we never think about it until we grill again.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:48 am
My grill got so coated with the remnants of hamburger, chicken skin, pork fat, barbeque sauce, and cheese that I swear it was what was still holding it together after the years I had it. No wonder they say that grilling can cause cancer. If it can hold something together like that, imagine what all that is doing to the lining of your stomach and intestines! Yikes! I finally bought a new grill this year so it is no where near as bad, but something like that nifty little gadget would help out immensely.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The crud build-up has formed into some weird looking shapes that stick up & out, and I swear one of the larger chunks of crud looks like it has legs! Another one looks like suspiciously like a well-done slug. It’s getting to the point that we’re afraid to grill for fear that we’ll end up eating one of these mystery grill-critters on a bun by mistake!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I’m young; I just moved into my first apartment in February. Some of the most inexpensive meals I can make include grilling veggies and lower-quality cuts of meat (everything tastes better when grilled) on the old-school Weber barbeque grill that was a hand-me-down from my boss. My roommate and I have such a hard time cleaning this grill, that must be at least 20 years old, that we’ve decided that the gunk on the grates that sticks to our food is a bonus a la Taco Bell’s “Fourth Meal” — we get an extra portion of food just by grilling. I’d really love to be able to taste what I’m cooking, and I don’t think that I’d be able to allocate budget for a Grill Daddy without letting something else go.
If I don’t win, I suppose I can at least continue thinking of the gunk as a bonus meal.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
OH the shame….
Cigarette butts!
NOT MY FAULT… anymore. But when we smoked, we used to put all the cigarette butts in the grill when we were done with them. Well.. it kinda got full. When summer rolled back around and my other roommate went to grill something… well.. needless to say we got another grill.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
My sweetie loves being the King of the Grill. I honestly haven’t gone near the grill for four years. Why you may ask? I would never be able to eat anything off of the grill if I went and saw what was on it.
You see, a few years ago, I went to put a steak on the grill and I noticed that there was a lot of thick, black drippings on the grill. So I placed the steak on a side table and brought the grill grating inside. Lee, my sweetie asked why I brought it inside. As I explained that I was about to clean it, he said, “No a grill doesn’t get cleaned, it just burns off.” The rest is for flavor.
So as you can imagine, I am scared of the flavor that jumps on the food.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I don’t have a disgusting story but instead one about the ultimate griller - my Dad. Even though, he won’t get this in time for Father’s Day, I will still give him this great gadget when it arrives. This is the man that gets up at 5:00 a.m. in the morning on the 4th of July and cooks pork steaks for over 50 people. He then cooks hot dogs and hamburgers for the additional 15 - 20 kids. My Dad has cooked at this annual barbecue for about 25 years and most of those years, it’s hot, hot, hot in St. Lou.
But his barbecuing skills and expertise do not stop there, he grills the best pork steaks (only those from St. Louis can understand the joys of pork steak) throughout the year in rain, heat and even snow. One New Year’s Eve, he cooked our meal in about a foot of snow.
There’s no one who deserves an extra little hand in cleaning up his grill than my Dad because he goes the extra mile when it comes to grilling. It would be nice to give him something that helps make the clean-up that much faster after his marathon grilling sessions!
June 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Yep, mine is yucky right about now…and so are my grill tools…!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
My grill has a bit of grease, grime and ashes. At the local corner bar where the best burgers in town are served I had always heard that the reason they were so delicious was that they didn’t clean their grill very often. I am not sure if this is true or not, but for some reason if I haven’t cleaned my grill very well things just seem to taste better!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Our grill is pretty disgusting- we use a charcoal one so that makes it even more grimey! We have major build-up of grease and burnt pieces but my DH’s philospohy is that it will burn off the next time we use it which never seems to work. There is only one time that I remember him cleaning it and it was when it was left open and it had bird poop in it. I am glad that he didn’t just try to burn that one off
Thank you so much for the giveaway and if we win we will definitely put it to good use!
June 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
The crud on my grill is beyond describing. My hubby burnt some Brats the other weekend, and never cleaned it. Then he cooks burgers this weekend, still not cleaned. Let’s just say our burgers taste like crud. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Y’all are disgusting! I actually considered entering last night, but i couldn’t even come close to any of these stories.
All you gotta do is turn the grill on high for about 10 minutes EVERY time you fire it up, then wire brush the ash off of the grates.
From the looks of it though, you’d all better have the fire department standing by if you tried this with the current state of your grills. Trust me: even Grill Daddy isn’t gonna rescue some of these grills.