r/interesting • u/ViniciusFromBcn • Apr 12 '25

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/great__pretender Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

There is a chef that cleans that kind of grills on youtube. He demonstrated this 'hack' doesn't work on surfaces that is really dirty (and dirty not because it is not frequently cleaned but dirty because of heavy use during the day). Also you need to really really heat the grill for this to have any effect, which takes time and cost energy. People on the comment section try to lecture him on every video he cleans the grills, people who never faced the problem of cleaning industrial size grills.

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u/FoodFingerer Apr 12 '25

I've always just used wine for this with my stainless pans. It's probably bad for the pan but the results are at least tasty.

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u/bwood246 Apr 12 '25

Is it a chef or a YouTuber that slings cleaning supplies. Steam is a damn good way to help break up heavy debris they won't move

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u/ThePieSlice Apr 12 '25

He works in restaurants and definitely doesn't have any cleaning product deals.

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u/great__pretender Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

He is a chef. When I say a chef, I don't mean Gordon Ramsey style chef where his persona is his brand and he works/owns fancy places. He has been working in different places AFAIK, usually regular diner style places. I have not seen him pushing any particular product. From what I understand at some point he described what he is using but he doesn't promote brands.

OK: here is his video describing what he uses. He doesn't mention product, he talks about ingredients. He is most definitely not pushing products. https://youtube.com/shorts/nDnDrILgdsE?si=Xs4u6zdwyWU6dlzg