The Must-Have $6 Modification for Every Lone Star Grillz Smoker | Plus A Safety Tip for All BBQers
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this quick shoot, I focus on two things.
First, a modification that I think is absolutely essential for every LSG offset to make your ball valve drain 10 times more user friendly. I got this idea from Rus Jones of Smoky Ribs BBQ who had the LSG 24x36 offset with the same valve.
Second, I give a simple safety tip that I used to make fun of - but after personal experience with a scenario that no one wants to encounter while BBQing, it was time to make a change. . . .and share that change with you all. **See below for a correction to something I said incorrectly during the shoot.** See below also for safer brush alternatives recommended by my subscribers.
Enjoy!
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Lowe's Flex N Fit Extension Tube 1&1/4"
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Cooking With Ry's Recent Grill Brush Safety Video
• Danger On The BBQ -- W...
**I was totally wrong! Ry published his bristle brush safety video on July 25, a few weeks before my experience with rogue bristles. But I happened to watch his video for the first time a couple days after my experience and obviously it really jumped out at me.**
SAFER BRUSH ALTERNATIVES? (recommended by subscribers)
The Grill Badger (Derek Choo)
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That mod is going to make life easier for sure Jonathan and thanks for the mention, I appreciate it. I haven't thought of a good solution for the wire bristle brushes either, but that yellow brush is safer for sure.
Smoky Ribs BBQ & Southern Cuisine No problem, Rus. Credit to you for a great idea. Thanks for stopping by!
Rus - update on this. Grill Badger sent me out a couple all natural bristle brushes to try. I like them. I'm using them on my expanded metal and they're great! I did a review video on them a while back. Good people over there too.
Get a weed burner with a propain tank, torch the grill for about 5 min spray it off with cold water. Not only does it sanitize any food that was left on the grates but it cleanes really well. I have a Lone Star cabinet smoker and I clean it that way every time. The weed burner pretty much turns any food left on the grates to ashes and you just rinse off the ashes.
Have you guys used the nylon grill brushes? You have to use them when the grill is cool, but i find it works really well!
Yes, they're ok. I prefer the Grill Badger. Tough and can use when hot. 👉💨
I hard piped my LSG 30” offset cabinet smoker, because I would add 4 gallons of water to my smoker when smoking. Keeps the humidity up in the smoker and heats the water so the drippings don’t stick. LSG makes a killer product. I have another one on order as I make this post.
new sub here
Awesome to have you, and thanks!!
That's why you should use a nylon brush
Grill Badger!
Solid advice on the metal brushes. For the drain on the LSG, I’d just get a smaller bucket than putting some ridiculous looking plastic mod on a nice pit. The ash bucket you have on in the video works great. Ive been using one with my LSG since I got it in 2016 and it hasn’t rusted out yet even though water sits in it most of the year.
I remember Russ’ video with the angle. Love your solution. It lets you put your bucket on any side, and allows you to retract the downspout so it doesn’t get in the way as you move around it. Very clever.
Elliott and Shelley Carman I didn't even know these existed, but I was so lost in Lowe's plumbing section I stumbled across this! 😂
Yep, the bristles do come of onto the grate. Expanded metal is worse due to the joint at the bottom of each opening where it will cut off the bristle. I have been aware of this but even being aware of it you can't see them all every time. I have two of those T shaped brushes and still use them but inspect closely and always rub down the grate with paper towels or clean rags then spray with oil. If you swallow one of those steel bristles, it is then a 50/50 chance of it puncturing your stomach or intestines. I also have one of the nylon brushes I use now on the expanded metal, and save the other for the straight grate. I like what you did on the drain mod, that makes it much easier for sure. I have a drain on my offset but do not use it for cleaning only grease dripping during a cook. I found if I'm gonna take out the grate and heat plate during cleaning anyway, I can take my 5 inch sheetrock knife and begin at the top of the drum and run it down thru and up the other side and collect the grease and rub it off on a couple paper towels. On a 36 inch drum, it doesn't take any time at all to work down the drum like this and it's all dry cleaning. Just put on a pair of rubber gloves. It's not bad IMO . Thanks for the tips Jonathan.
Phil N Florence Good feedback and ideas! Thank you!
All of the LSG offsets can hold water to become a water smoker, and that is primarily what the valve is there far. I use my offset 90 percent of the time with water in it, and even when I don't, I simply hose all the gunk off and down the drain. Clean up is a breeze on these smokers.
Smoky Ribs BBQ & Southern Cuisine That's a great point. I forget that because I don't water smoke with mine, though I'll experiment with that at some point. Do you keep it fired up for an hour after cleaning to dry it out completely, or not really worry about a little rust in the belly?
How about using a Texas brush?
Grill Badger!
I'm also using a plastic type brush. If you have a weed burner and hit the grates afterwards it makes those leftover bristles glow red hot which makes it easier to find and remove them.
Graet video. Thats a good brush better than a metal brush. Good info jonathan.
Thanks very much!
Great tips Johnathan.
That yellow bristled brush you have is a great alternative usually about every 2-3 cooks I'll use my brush which is the same style as yours but mine is blue,
Anyway I bring my smoker to temp and give it a good quick steam cleaning with light sprays of water from my garden hose, while scrubbing the grates with the ball valve wide open to keep it as fresh as possible, then I reseason the pit before the next cook. After months of use I still don't have any problems using the brush. Great channel Bub, you just gained another subscriber.
This saved my bacon but eventually the flex pvc failed. Still it was super great while it lasted. Now I got the Russ Jones method. Price difference was $6 vs $20. I can’t thank this guy enough, the pvc worked in the lonestar for a year.
Thanks for sharing, I am getting ready to a LSG Adjustable Charcoal and was contemplating whether or not to go with the laser cut SST grates, you made that decision very easy. Thx again!
Thank you for sharing that! And congrats!
That's great, I just ordered the same smoker today, I will do that mod, can't wait to get it, Chris said about 4 weeks. Thanks for the great vids.
It's an awesome cooker. My few "complaints" are so small, they're really just suggestions. Minor improvements can be made, but out of the box, this is an awesome offset. I'm doing projects around the house today with no worries about temps whatsoever while the ole' LSG puffs away on 30 lbs of pork butts. Such an enjoyable smoker!
Yeah I have been doing a lot of research on offsets, I almost bought a Lang, but I think this is better.
Good tips. I've been aware that hazzard as well. I now only use a plastic bristle brush. And I clean while the grill grate is cold with mild soap & hot water.
But they make plastic bristle grill brushes for grill grates. Bought mine at Walmart in the lawn & garden dept
Hi I had the same problem one time what I do is pressure wash just when they are too bad and need deep clean but I dry them up with a towel and spray oil to it the when time to cook in the process to hit the pit the oil stick to the grill again and every time you are cooking again cut a big onion in half stick it to a big grill fork and pass it throughwhike the pit is hot.
Put litle pressure that will keep the grill clean to and ready to cook
I saw a person at a car wash with an offset cabinet smoker and grill. He had two others with him and they cleaned the grills to perfection! They had a F-150 pickup and loaded them up on it with a ramp.
I was taught NEVER to use a METAL brush. Thanks for the safety and mod tip. Now all I need is a Lone Star Smoker. Currently smoking with a WSM.
Thank you, will getting my Yoder Cheyenne by 5-2020
Congrats! Enjoy it.
They make a grill brush that has shorter nylon bristles similar to what you have in the video. The shorter bristles make it a little more stiff for cleaning the grates. It also has a flat scraper on the reverse side for heavier gunk. I'm pretty sure I picked mine up at Lowes.
zeroghd Thank you! I'll have to check that out next time I'm there. Maybe end of summer sales will start soon in the grill section :)
you don't want a metal brush with fine wires it will shed
Hey there Jonathan, thanks for talking about the grill brushes, I just threw mine out. I've been using them for years and thankfully nothing has happened to anyone. I'm going to use wadded up tin foil until I find a better solution. I have been interested in the LSG for a while and am glad that you started filming their new version. You give allot of good information and I really like your videos. Keep up the good job.
Jeff, glad to be of help! Thank you so much for watching and also taking the time to give me feedback. More videos already filmed and ready for editing! :)
good video thanks for sharing
Michael Fernandez Thank you for stopping by the channel!
Good tips brother. I’m definitely getting the attachment before I even start it up. I actually didn’t even order there ball value because I planned on doing that.
Traeger sells a metal bucket that fits pretty well under the LSG because it's a few inches shorter than the typical 5 gallon buckets sold at Home Depot & Orchard. I've found that Traeger's bucket gets the job done, looks good & it will probably last a long time.
Kenyatta Robinson Good tip! Thank you! We'll get all these tweaks perfect eventually :)
Why not just get a shorter bucket like a 3gal bucket
Great Tips Thank You So Much
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Texas 2.5 BBQ - Smoky Ribs BBQ - I am not sure if this will work but I believe it will. Give it a try and see. They are cheap.
Try using a PUMICE STONE.
Hey, I was using the bristle brushes in the welding section. I stopped a while back. I now use these on my lang and weber. I now use both of these, Alpha Grillers Grill Brush Bristle Free. So far so good.
Nice!
i really want a lone star!! great video though!!
Cookin' With James They are awesome. And these 20" models save nearly $1000 over the 24s with shipping. Makes it realistic for alot more guys!
Heat up your grill. Scrub your grill with an onion to clean it
Been using an onion for years. The only way to go. And it smells great.
That’s what I have been doing since the beginning of time
Use your yellow brush before you heat up the grill and burn it off which also helps sterilize the grill surface before you place anything on it. I crank up my pellet grill to 500 degrees and then lower it down to the right temp I want to cook at.
Love Your videos I had the same problem on my weber grill with that type of brush I switched to a regular wire brush and didn't have the problem .what when the wire brush starts to wear out .wires are bigger and brush more heavy duty maybe would work for you.
Thank you for the feedback and the encouragement!
Great video and safety tip ! Well done keep up the good work ! If you soak your grates in hot water , that yellow brush will last a long time !
I stopped using it once I got my Grill Badger. I love that thing! Highly recommend. Thanks for stopping by, Kent!
-Jonathan
They do make smaller buckets.
I am going to do that once i have an lsg smoker
SNeal5966 I think it is a must. So cheap and easy yet so helpful.
Tks Jonathan for sharing the safety tip. I wonder what Chris’ advise would be for cleaning the grates?
Derek Choo That's a great point. I should ask him!
Hi Jonathan
Did some research and found this brush that claims to be much safer than the metal bristle. In Amazon, do a search for Grillbadger. I am thinking of giving this a try for my much awaited LSG.
I'll do that right now, thank you!
Simple fix for your drain, first thing I did when I got my LSG smoker. Take the valve off, replace it with a 45* elbow, a 6" pipe nipple, the valve, and then another nipple. I put a cap on the end, but it's not really necessary. The valve is out from under the smoker and the perfect height to put a bucket under it. LSG could include this setup and add $10-20 to the price and make it a whole lot easier on the customer.
Use a half of an onion.
Re: Audio - I think Chef John (Foodwishes) has a good approach with a v/o audio after the fact. Keep on keeping on - its nice to see another BBQ channel that isn't gob struck/beholden to a MFG. And bristle ingestion is a real thing. Sadly. I've found onions + tinfoil work well enough for me for cleaning the grates. I'm not licking off them and everything on them spends long enough to not worry about bacteria.
Joe Ees Yeah, editing audio that way is more work but eventually I need to learn how to mix that in to my repertoire. Thank you!
Yeah, my neighbor ended up in the hospital. Totally brought it home how dangerous the are. She could have died
Baby Back Maniac I'm very glad she's ok. Very, very scary.
Started breaking in the wooden paddle on my Weber kettle tonight. Will break out the new scrubber for the offset tomorrow. Done with metal bristles for good. Just not worth it.
Can you please show a video sometime on how you clean your LSG? Thanks, Dustin from KC.
I'm still working on the best way to do that, but that is a good video idea!
I second this video idea. Would love to see you clean it 2.5
I should be able to break out my LSG again here in a couple weekends. Will try to remember! This is a great idea.
@@Texas2.5 that's awesome. I am waiting on my 24x40 LSG. I almost went with a 20x42 like yours I just love the look of the pipe smokers still. I can't wait to pick it up in Willis TX.
@@Texas2.5 14 weeks of torture waiting.
Its plastic bucket just make a cutout?
I bit down on a wire bristle at a restaurant fortunately, I wasn’t injured. Come to find out they were using a wire wheel or wire cup on a electric grinder to clean their BBQ grills and just as you said one of the bristles ended up in my food. So yeah it does happen.
Wow. That's scary. I'm glad you were ok!
I use the fire 🔥 to clean the grill
great idea! do you wash it out after each cook?
I actually sold it to make way for my LSG Mini - but I did not wash it out after each cook. Actually, rarely did I ever wash it out and the longer I owned it the less I wanted to introduce water into the equation. A plastic paint scraper once everything has cooled down gets the sludge out of the bottom pretty easily and leaves the metal seasoned. I still use this method on my mini.
hey have you heard of the grill cleaning stone? not sure how it will work for the diamond shaped grill grate you have but check it out.
I was actually looking at them last night at home Depot. But I have a grill badger coming so I'm gonna try that first. Thanks for the tip!
oh yea that looks very good. THANK YOU!
Take the grate out and use a pressure washer duhhhhh
I'll make sure when getting a grill the grates are definitely round bars
Worth the money!!
Does lone Star have a Grate brush for their grill grates ?
No, not yet. I used the Grill Badger and an old t shirt. Liked that combo.
HI, I was wondering if you got the 1/2 inch charcoal grate upgrade, I saw that T-Roy got it , and what is the benefit of it , this is my first offset I don't know that much about them, Thanks.
I did get it, because the charcoal grate is the first thing to burn out on any offset cooker. It takes a ton of stress from the hot coals and expands and cools more than any other spot on the cooker. However, I am not sure it is necessary. The 1/4" one is still very beefy. The 1/2" one might be a little overkill. It is very heavy, probably 45 lbs.
Thanks for the info, I think I might just get it, I will call them Monday and ask them to add it. The other things I got are the Ball valve, probe port, charcoal basket, and 8 inch wheels, I am also thinking about the fire poker and ash rake, and maybe the cover.
warren perry I bought my own fire tools at fleet farm. I'll eventually make a charcoal basket out of expanded metal as well.
Use a non contact steam sprayer. It will clean and sanitize your expanded metal.
Are you talking about the Kona bristle free stainless brush?
No, I'm not familiar with that one.
What does lone star grill recommend for cleaning the grates
It's been almost a year since I talked to them about it, but at that time they recommend wire brush, weed burner, or pressure washer. The latter two require re-seasoning the grates.
@@Texas2.5 i use a pressure washer on mines..then i spray it with PAM OIL
So thats a problem to smoker grates but should be no problem to standard weber kettle grates?
I’m not willing to take the risk anymore. I’ve been using the same Grill Badger for about two years now I think and I’ll never go back to metal.
TX- Very simple solution to the steel bristles in food problem: ditch the whole expanded metal grates problem. It is so simple to have a welder make a set of steel grates for you out of 1/4 or 5/16 round bar stock. It will outlast your grill, and you will kick yourself for Ever having used any expanded metal grill grate before.
I use what is called grill wizard still metal but I have not seen any metal come out of mine
I power wash all my grill grates
Use a half of a large onion
Buy some fittings and run it out farther
Cleaning that kinda grill grate is the reason I ordered a new grate from the burn shop you should check them out
Thanks for the tip!
Hi Jonathan! I actually came back to this to buy exactly that thing. Thanks for linking it. I do have one question...When you rinse out your smoker with water and drain it into this, what do you do with a giant bucket of diluted grease???? Thanks!
Awesome! I'm glad it helped.
I have a spot I can dump it nearby so it's pretty easy for me.
@ Texas, you might give the Weber Heavy Duty Scrubber Pads a try. I use them to clean the normal round rod grills but they might work for expanded metal grills also. Here's the Home Depot link for them: www.homedepot.com/p/Weber-Heavy-Duty-Scrubber-Pads-with-Handle-W146/300512634 . I find the handle useless and just use the pads. Only $5 for 3 pads and they last. Thanks for the video. Good luck.
Get a smaller bucket and don't buy cheep brushes. Problems solved. Your welcome.
I see a lot of UA-cam channels on here just saying paid for that's how they get these things sorry I don't have that much money
$3000 for a smoker to save a couple bucks on some pipe fittings. Do it right instead of using hack plumbing parts (that shouldn’t even be sold) that will melt with hot grease and drip because of the corrugation trapping grease.
There's no reason to be spraying water inside the smoker or have water inside it. You are just making a huge mess and creating work. Use that little metal bucket you have there, put a kitchen trash bag in it. Clean out the firebox and put the ash in it. Then put the bucket under the drain and open it. Scrape the grease and junk put a putty knife down the drain, the ash will absorb the grease. Close the drain, wipe up excess with paper towels and toss in the trash can. Done...Easy....
These pits are designed to cook with water in them. It provides humidity. Some of the best use water in there cooks (Aaron Franklin and Myron Mixon).
Any time I’m doing a brisket or a butt I use water as well.
Nothing against using a water pan. But no need to fill the bottom, and make a huge mess. I also am not convinced Chris at LSG is very good as designing pits. These new designs look to me to have drafting issues.
I don’t know. I have the traditional 24x48 offset from LSG but everyone that has these models seem to love them. You could be right on the draft though.
I do fill the bottom with water and outside of providing humidity on Long cooks, it makes clean-up a snap. Just got dry and oil afterwards.
@@SOLDOZER A year in. I still don't water smoke, but I can tell you there's nothing wrong with the draft on mine. My most recent video thoroughly details a brisket cook and the performance on the LSG 20x42 is rock solid every time I use it.
Hold the freaking camera still. Got headache now.
Man, you think you got it bad? I have to watch every one of this guy's videos at least three times thru while editing!
No disrespect but I just think that the LSG is too much of a high quality product to put a plasticky component on it. I feel as if you've tainted the value that just looking at a LSG gives.
Wow it's amazing that lone star grillz didn't use flattened expanded metal! That's trash! Not just trash , TOTAL TRASH!
LSG makes amazing cookers! Nobody's perfect.