The Grill Daddy grill cleaner, is it a lot of infomercial hype or does it actually work?

First thing you should know is that I have a weakness for tv infomercials, especially at 4:00 a.m. when I've been watching don't-need-a-brain-tv for three hours and I'm exhausted and insomniac and vulnerable.  Typically, I'd watch an infomercial, convince myself that we need that pasta maker so that we can make carrot-flavored pasta, which we also need, but some innate, common-sense part of my brain would stop me from sending in those "three easy payments of $49.95 plus shipping and handling," and then usually by the light of day, I would have recovered enough to ask myself what in the heck I was thinking.

So when I saw all the YouTube videos showing how easy and miraculous the Grill Daddy cleaned filthy, crusted over grills, I was both enthusiastic and highly skeptical.  That's the way my brain works.  

We just threw out our 6-year old grill.  Truthfully, it had not been properly maintained, cleaned, and covered.  I absolutely hate cleaning grills, and the grill plates had rust and ancient stuck-on burnt stuff on them.  They were disgusting.  Nobody wants to eat off carbon and rust and it was probably toxic.  I could have just replaced the grill plates, but the starter had died too, and there was a lovely family of spiders living in the drip pan, so we just chucked it, and good riddance.

So when this Amazon Gold Box deal came up (it JUST came back; even though it's out of stock, you can order the grill for $159.99 and lock in the price if you order it through THIS special link), I told my husband we were getting a new grill and we did.  

I love our new grill, but now that we spent the money, I am absolutely committed to keeping it clean and spotless.  But I still hate scrubbing grills and I don't really have the elbow-power to get the grill as clean as I'd like.

That's when I figured I'd buy the Grill Daddy.  It was $11.51 with free Prime/SuperSaver shipping (a whole lot better than "three easy payments of $49.95 plus shipping and handling"), so there wasn't much risk there, and it was coming from Amazon, so worse-case scenario, I'd return it. 

I bought it, it arrived, it works REALLY WELL, and it's easy to use.  Buy it.

That's it.  There's nothing really miraculous about it.  You fill it up with water, use it on a hot grill so that the water turns to steam, and the steam does the work for you, literally melting off the gross gunk.  The hard metal bristles of the brush (which goes in the dishwasher, awesomeawesome) knock the gunk off on the bottom of the grill, where you have hopefully laid a piece of heavy duty foil. It takes about three minutes to clean the grill, then you throw out the foil.

So now I can actually recommend this Grill Daddy with complete confidence, and I love it when I can do that on Daily Cheapskate.  If you (or your husband or father...awesome for Father's Day) like to barbecue in the summertime, this is one of the easiest ways to get the grill spotless every time you use it and the $11.51 price is well, well worth it.  I haven't seen it for less anywhere else.

Happy BBQing.  We're making kabobs for Shabbos lunch.

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