BBQ Equipment: The Brush Hawg
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I had received a goodie box of grilling accessories from Charbroil. I’ve already reviewed the Hedge Hawg and now I’m moving on to the Brush Hawg.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like cleaning my grill. After cooking, I usually remove the meat and let the grill sit, dirty and festering until my next cook. What usually happens is that the meat juices, sauces, sugars and spices are burnt to a crisp by the time I return to the cooker.
When I’m ready for the next cook, I light a fire in the cooker, knock the big stuff off the grill and let it heat up with the fire. Just before the meat hits the grill, I hit it with a brush cleaning off any remaining food nasties.
While this is an effective way to clean the grill, it’s hard on the brushes. It’s hard on the cook too, since you’re cleaning a hot grill in a hot cooker. But it’s not so hard on the Brush Hawg. Like its little brother the Hedge Hawg, this brush can clean.
I guess that’s due to the cleaning heads on both brushes having “maximum count stainless steel bristles,” whatever that means. Unlike some of the cheaper brushes on the market, this brush has a nice thick handle that stands up to elbow grease as you clean. It also has multiple blade scrappers, one of which arrived bent on my brush, and a convenient hook for hanging or to my surprise, grill lifting. A very nice feature is that the brush heads are replaceable.
The Brush Hawg retails for $ 12.99 and is available from Home Depot®, Sears®, Kmart®, GrillLovers.com®
I loved the Brush Hawg until tonight. I did just as stated in the article. Just before cooking late tonight I did a final brushing of my grill. Little did I know the almost new brush was falling apart, it left a bristle that imbeded in the meat I was cooking. This same piece of stainless imbeded in the mouth of one of our guest. This was not a plasent situation. I am sending a letter to Charbroil that the temper of the stainless or a design flaw in their “Made in China” brush is a possible hazard to other consumers. It appears that after use, the bristles brake off easily at their base because of the kink in the wire. My suggestion is if you use this product “please use caution”.