Warning: Do you think your grill brush is safe?
Many people are grilling this summer and have no idea that when they clean their grill, they are putting their health on the line. Yes, its true, but most people don’t know it.
Those little wire brushes we all use, well, when a wire breaks loose and embeds into your food, you can very easily swallow it and not know it until hours later when you get intense pain! It seems to be happening more frequently than most of us realize. Search around on the web and see for yourself.
And I don’t think you have to have an “old” wire brush for a wire to break free, do you?
How comes this product has been removed from shelves?
Thanks, MA, for sharing this story with me.
Wally uses aluminum foil for this very reason. I wish I could find another item to use to clean it with, but the grill guys say use wadded up aluminum foil. lol, but it’s best for my personality not to look too closely at any grill lest I deem it/them all as “not cook-worthy” at any/all given time/s. Too bad they don’t make grills that shine like chrome. Too bad the cast iron grates look like they do. I don’t even like the idea or look of cast iron skillets. I don’t like the fact that I can’t scrub it down with de-greaser and or bleach. ….but grilling and cast iron skillets produce some of the best results. …and NO, I will NEVER use a wire grill brush ever again.
This is true, and it doesn’t surprise me that it’s happening more often. We’ve been on a “cheaper” path for many years now, and one way to do things cheaper is to use less robust manufacturing processes, so I’d suspect (without grilling or using grills or grill brushes or looking at them up close recently) that we may be making them with lower tolerances or cheaper component parts that hold the bristles in, so they may in fact be less well attached to the brush handle than they were say, 20-30 years ago. I’ve seen a lot of other products go that direction over the years, so I don’t see why the same wouldn’t be true for grill brushes. Especially since a lot of people who grill tend to think of cleaning them as something that ruins their ability to make good tasting food. Plenty of people take pride in the gunk that builds up on them over the years.