# How can I clean a mini propane grill (a Kegecue, to be specific)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clean-a-mini-propane-grill-a-kegecue-to-be-specific/196547
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clean-a-mini-propane-grill-a-kegecue-to-be-specific/196547 "2003-08-20T23:15:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clean-a-mini-propane-grill-a-kegecue-to-be-specific/196547/1 "2003-08-20T23:15:36Z")
I used it twice, and then put it in the garage to await football season. I went in there for something else, picked it up, and saw some brownish fluid seeping out of the airholes when I tipped it a bit. Ewww.
As I said, it’s a propane grill, with the propane coming from little holes along a roughly foot-long metal tube at the bottom.
Can I simply hose the entire thing off? Or will that harm the grill? There are no woodchips or briquets or anything, and unfortunately I don’t have the manual anymore. Anyone who has one that can tell me the best way to clean it? I guess the basic question is just “can you clean a propane grill with soap and water, and if not how do you clean it?” Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clean-a-mini-propane-grill-a-kegecue-to-be-specific/196547/2 "2003-08-21T01:04:46Z")
Why don’t you get it hot and wipe the grease out with paper towels? While its still hot scrup the grid down with a ball of aluminum foil.
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### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clean-a-mini-propane-grill-a-kegecue-to-be-specific/196547/3 "2003-08-21T01:14:56Z")
Just wash the grill.
1)Use a good wire brush, detergent and some hot water.
2)Sprayon oven cleaner works a treat, follow the instructions. BUT RINSE THOUGHERLY!!
3)Or just scrape off most of the muck and justify that the heat would kill anything left… :dubious: