Beware of This Barbecue Danger 

This is why us Mexicans have been using an onion to clean grills for ages!

NAH… I LOOKED AT THE THUNBNAIL AND THOUGHT THAT WAS A WORM 😂😂

As a person who enjoys eating wires this information is useless

The problem is people don’t like to clean after barbecuing. They’ll rather bbq 10 times and then clean it. Keep it clean.

As a person who got eyes i always double check my grill.

I read a thing where emergency room doctors were asked what’s something they see that’s kind of common that people would never think of. Several of them said this exact thing. That’s when I stopped using these brushes.

When I was a kid, a Dad in my old neighborhood died because of a tiny piece of metal that got into his food.. he ingested it and began having severe chest pains. Went to ER and died there. Left behind 4 young kids a little younger than me at the time. This is no joke and people should take the necessary precautions to ensure their grill is clean, both before and after cooking.

I work as a cashier at Home Depot, and always advise customers who seek to purchase such wire grill brushes about the hazard they pose!

Yikes. I’m in charge of Barbecue at work so better be careful.

I learned the onion thing from my dad. Leave it to mother nature to provide us the tools to get the job done😌

New fear unlocked. Swallowing metal wires.

Never use a wire brush on a grill without wiping it completely down afterward with a damp cloth.

"Here's one stuck to a grill" Literally looks like it was placed there.

My wife got one stuck in her tongue and i was able to retrieve it. I threw all my wire brushes away after that.

An onion or lemon is a waste of food. Just take a nice ball of aluminum foil and rub it on the grates. Safe and coarse.

This is why me a Mexican American use onions thanks mom and dad for teaching me

It's obvious that most of the people that barbecue don't know how to properly clean their grill. You see those wire brushes full of soot and burned food. The best way to clean the grill is with a handheld wire brush and a small bucket of water. Get the grill nice and hot dip the brush in the water and then scrub for a couple seconds right on the grill. Dip the brush again and repeat. Both your brush and your grill will be perfectly clean with minimal effort

She woofed that food down so fast she didnt even have time to chew and notice the metal wire in her mouth.

This happened to my grandmother; the wire brush bristle nearly killed her. This is why we use a stone BBQ cleaner. I'm surprised no one has thought to recall those bristle brushes.

Everyone should own a Mr. Bar-B-Q Oversized Scrubber Brush. It is made of long lasting stainless steel mesh, not bristles. It can stay outside and will not rust or leave wire on your food.......

Always clean up your grill after use

I like to live my life on the edge

I use the onion method. My mom warned me another wire brush a few years ago.

dont use a brush...

You’re supposed to let the fire 🔥 burn off your grill and use newspaper to wipe it down or a paper bag 👍🏾

You use a shelf for BBQ?

What's life without a bit of danger👀

It’s crazy how something that was perfectly fine back in the 90s suddenly becomes a very harmful thing in this generation

Using a shelf as a grill is wild...

The price of onions and lemons outweigh the risk.

or just use water pressure.

I VIVIDLY remember an epsiode of "The Monsters Inside Me" where a guy had a piece of bristle brush stabbed through one intestinal loop into two other loops, and it was that that was killing him instead of a parasite or disease

There was a "monsters inside me" episode where a guy had one stuck sideways in his intestine or something and was throwing up feces because it was blocking the natural way out.

After scraping your grill, use a large piece of tin foil to scrape over the grates. It should wipe all of the bristles off!

Doesn't beat the time last summer when I lifted the grill hood and a mouse crawled out from between the grates.

This information was published in the CDC M&M publication over a decade ago. The media has taken this long to report on what radiologist and ER doctors have been diagnosing for half a century.

Been using a wire brush for 35 years. Never had a problem. But I don’t let my grates get crusty enough for wire to stick there

That guy just had a burger date with that inside edition anchor

I ate 3 burgers last week I felt disgusted with myself

“This Seattle woman ended up swallowing a bristle” 😂 local news is so undefeated

Argentina here... we grab highly absorbing paper towels and scrub the grill with it, or newspaper since the paper type is more resilient and perfect for it, as you scrub the great majority of the grease off you can use that exact same paper for ignition, which burns much faster due to the grease on the paper. This is a Merika' problem.

use the wire brush, use a regular brush to brush the grill to knock out any unseen bristles inside, put food on

Don't forget to wait for the water to cool down to room temperature after you boil it, then drink it!

It's a good thing my dad always uses onions to clean the grill😊😊

All Mexicans know an onion and an orange or a lemon is all you need to clean that grill

Use one with brass bristles, thwy don't rust. And check the grill for rogue bristles. It's not hard to manage something if you think.

Omg on my 5th birthday this happened to me but luckily it was just on the top of my throat so the doctor pulled it out.

Well.... that's why my family has been using vented foil to cooked on while grilling.. barely any clean up after. No wired brushes required.

It’s been 3 years and im still waiting for the “fire is hot” video from Inside Edition

Thats why i use Copper wool for cleaning the grill. Never used wire brush

Us Hispanics ALWAYS use the onion 😤

What about the burst leftover crust left there since the last BBQ 10 years ago? Pushing and onion and lemon around will solve the problem?

I've always just scraped it with the spatula, flat, and then tilted to get between the bars. Douse it in oil, light it up and burn it off! Job done.

Okay, I’m never going to trust a grill anymore

I still use a wire brush, but I also go through the trouble of using the little rounded metal corners to scrape off each individual grate. Never had a problem with eating bristles and my grill brush lives outside. There is inherent risk in everything we do, regardless of how mundane, you just have to be aware of the danger and take the proper steps. Although, I may have try out that onion and lemon idea just out of curiosity

I use a four step process on a hot grill: 1) Wire round grill brush; 2) Metal scouring pad type grill cleaner; 3) Newspaper to remove grit and stuck debris; 4) oiled paper towel. All that seems to work well.

Great info!

You can also spray them with oven cleaner, put them in a trash bag overnight, and wipe and rinse clean the next day. Just don’t do this when it’s still hot and on the grill.

That onion thing is a very Mexican thing to do 😂 dad would always use that method.

Nylon folks... You can use the meal ones, but if you do, always, always follow behind it with nylon or something non-metallic. Onion, nylon, and all sorts of things other than nylon work pretty well, but obviously, a visual inspection also is a must since even the nylon bristles can come off.

Oh i work in a machine shop so i eat stuff like this every day. You just gotta toughen up your insides a bit and it'll be ok

I've always used a piece of wood to scrape my grill. Never use metal. You'll be suprised how well it works.

I use a stone and then follow up with an onion. I'll scrape with a spatula on stubborn bits. I cook BBQ competitively, never once had this happen in the thousands of times I've cooked.

i just don't bother cleaning mine plus it adds flavour 😋

My neighbor ended up in the hospital due to consuming a bristle!! She also had surgery to remove it.

My best friend got one lodged in his throat and had to have it surgically removed. Had to wait a week for "emergency" surgery. Can't imagine the pain and discomfort for that long

Scrunched up aluminum foil and tongs across a hot grate works better and safer than a wire brush. On my propane grill with cast grates I just crank it all the way up and let the grate burn off.

Bro I thought that it was a parasite from the meat stuck on the grill 😭 In retrospect, that doesn’t make sense bc the heat would kill the parasites/bacteria 💀

This makes me not want to eat at a barbecue unless I personally witnessed the preparation of the grill. I can see a lot of ignorant people getting into arguments over their insistence on using a wire brush on the grill.

Thank you Inside Edition for this video. Great helping video ❤👍

In Argentina we use brushes made of Palmyra, it's natural and less dangerous than metallic wires, also we use paper once the grill is hot, but should be careful with the heat

1:24 Dayum gurl pace yo self! 😂

I just burn off the grill till it's matte black with soot and scrape each grate with a knife or spatula until it's nice and shiny black. Seaon with a brush of oil to create the carbon layer and it's good to go. Never used a bristle, nor have I thought it would be a good idea.

Use club soda to clean the grill

In Texas we use a wire brush then a onion

I got a bristle in my gum, never again used a brush for grill

This is why Brendan from Santa Cruz Medicinals recommends using an onion to clean the grill because it cleans the grill of any seed oils, it also adds a nice flavor to the burger and it also doesn’t leave a mess on the grill

scary

I saw an ER episode YEEEAAARRRS ago as a child, where this kid on a boy-scouts trip died because he ingested just one of those little metal bristles… still affected me as an adult and I never use those even now!!!

While the grill is still hot use thick steel wool to scrape it. Steel wool will not break off and leave pieces of itself on or in the grill. When the grill is hot it is easier to scrape food off of it.

Use an air fryer

I'd recommend the Grill Daddy or whatever it's called, it's a mesh type of sponge with a firm handle from the popular sponge makers. You soak it in water and hit a hot grill. The steam helps clean off the grill. Works amazing! The back side has a scraper but no wire bristles so you can get tough spots too. Really solid option. I like to use an onion anyway for tradition but the Grill Daddy always cleans it really well.

lol americans actually need to be told this its not just common sense to them. so sad

You can use steel brush, but after that, rinse it with water and another round of cleaning with a scouring pad. Scrubbing with just steel brush is not cleaning it.

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Thats not barbecue, thats grilling

Wow! That's crazy!😮 It's good to watch out for stuff like that!😊

I never use wire brushes when I clean my grill I take my grill can I make some hot dish water and I put Dawn dishwashing liquid in it and I put a little bit of bleach in it Clorox and I scrub it with my towel that I use for my grill and I scrub it I let it soak I think it's so real good until everything gets nice and soft and then I scrub it really really good and then I rinse it then I dry it and then I take some cooking oil and I clean it real good so it won't rust and I rinse it very very good with scoring hot water and like I said after I do that I rub it down was cooking oil or either virgin olive oil and I do use an onion sometime but I like to get mine clean I clean it very very good

Well you learn something new everyday I didn't even know that 😮

I clean my grill before I light the charcoal. Scrub all the hardened food right onto the charcoal with a very short haired wire brush. It's brush head is only 2" by 2" square. Then light it, and pop the grill on. The heat will kill any bacteria and your meat sticks less to the hot grill.

Anytime inside edition does one of these intros, it feels like an alien trying to blend in with human civilization.

I thought it was going to be about worms spawning on unwashed grills😭

A hard wood spatula works well too, over time the grates char in grooves that help make it easier to clean

We haven't used the bristle brush in years. We bring the grills inside and clean them in the sink with an SOS pad and soap. Much safer.

My dog was a little too quiet outside, he was eating the wires right off the brush. Called the vet who advised how to safely make him throw it up. I'll never understand how but they came back up tangled together the size of a softball and our dog was fine.

This usually happens with grills that aren't hot and cheap brushes. Also, none of these tips a new. People were cleaning grills with foil and newspaper since I was a kid. I've seen plenty of people do the onion thing. I use a grill stone sometimes too. I've even tried the grill "brush" with the rings on it. I've used them all with no problem.

I thought this was common sense for grillers. Use a wire brush, then wipe the grill with an onion or get another non wire brush and finish cleaning the grill. 🤦‍♂️

I feel this common sense that these brushes fall apart over time. That’s why always look at my grill for these bristles and also bang on grates to knock down any bristles off that I may have missed. Use your eyes, because a potato,onion or lemon doesn’t scrub off baked on burnt cheese, chicken skin, built up bbq sauce, etc etc etc. I scrub then I look.

I clean mines with fire. I through the grill plate over the fire and let all the lefted over bbq sauce and stuff drip on to the coals. That's how you season them. My unck showed me this a long time ago and trust me never go wrong.

Never had any issues with this until about 6 months ago. Put a new head on my brush and it immediately started shedding bristles. They just don't make stuff like they used to.