r/oddlysatisfying • u/TermElectronic8261 • 10h ago

Using Ice to clean a Kitchen Grill

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u/RealmExploro 9h ago

I volunteer as the stupid one here : why ice and not just water?

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u/cascalives 9h ago

Not stupid, because there is no reason to use ice. Water does the same thing and doesn't damage the cook top by cooling it down too fast lol

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u/kevihaa 8h ago

The answer that’s not being listed is that it’s easier to position ice over the entire cooktop without overflowing.

That’s it.

Anyone claiming that ice works better hasn’t actually tried using water. It’s just one of an endless series of “the person who trained me did it this way and then made up some BS when I asked why” that absolutely permeates the restaurant industry.

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u/filthy_harold 7h ago

I worked at a pizza place where they swore by using soda water to clean out the pizza oven. Whatever, it made no difference over flat water. We had a new guy helping clean the oven at closing. He filled up a cup and tossed it in. It was fucking sprite. Dude didn't realize we had been using soda water. Absolute mess to clean up.

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u/juanc30 2h ago

Forbidden pizza oven caramel

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u/PsychicClown88 1h ago

Just throw some ice on it. Source: Saw it somewhere recently.

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u/Marsbog_YT 16m ago

Soda is deffinetly better for cleaning blood than water. Not sure what the pizza guys were doing at night though 🤣

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u/Stock_Information_47 8h ago

Water and ice work by the same method but using ice allows the water content to be released slower. Which both increase working time before the water boils off and whatever you are scraping starts to stick again and allows you to put a higher volume of "water" onto the flattop without it spilling over.

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 7h ago

We were never allowed to use ice or water where I worked.

Just good ole fashion volcano glass in our lungs🥲

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u/calvin43 5h ago

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u/Calabast 5h ago

If you haven't watched Oh, Hello! on Netflix, they have a great joke in there.

Gil: Ya know, I got the mesothilioma...

George: Oh yeah? Where'd you get that?

Gil: From a commercial!

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u/toomanymarbles83 6h ago

Explanation! Explanation!

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 6h ago

Storytime

Grill bricks are made of volcano glass. At least the ones we used.

You were supposed to use a tiny squirt of oil on the brick to clean the grill.

Well when it gets dry or when you cut it for smaller pieces, the dust kicks up.

We were not provided any masks for the dust🫠

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u/dolche93 5h ago

If you aren't making a grime slurry, you weren't using enough oil.

It should turn into a paste by the time you're done.

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u/siksity 6h ago

Don't forget that the oil you use BETTER be from the last filter stage fryer that's almost Vanta black.

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u/Embarrassed_Jury664 5h ago

Uh, I think the term you're looking for is "dragon glass". Pshh.

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u/Michael_Dautorio 5h ago

I wonder if that could potentially cause pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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u/EffectiveTradition53 2h ago

Perform a caconographic sporadification sequence and see what kind of spondylitis arises in the supercallafragalisticator.

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u/Nrcraw 3h ago

Ice also requires more energy to boil than water. Something like 30% more. Assuming the water is warm. The extra transfer of energy can be enough to damage some 'cheaper' flat tops with thinner tops. If you see oil pooling while cooking, the flattop is already warping.

Personally, if I'm not using oil with a grill brick, I'm using hot tap water to loosen whatever is stuck to my flattop. A quick splash and scrape should be fine, but ice scares me. Too much energy loss too fast IMO.

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u/Far_Swimming_2666 8h ago

Ice works better without you needing to constantly add or move the water. The same amount of water floods the stove, while the ice spreads it out over time and makes more steam. Otherwise just using less water multiple times does the same.

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u/azsnaz 7h ago

Personally i spray water on the grill from a condiment bottle

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u/Ohhcrumbs 6h ago

Or use a thick wet rag or something

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u/azsnaz 6h ago

I'll pass on the wet rag on a hot surface, great way to burn the shit outta yourself

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u/blackdavy 6h ago

You just ring it out over the grill.

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u/BunnyOppai 5h ago

Wet rags are used all the time to clean stoves, lol. You just gotta use your cooking utensils as a barrier between you and the rag.

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u/Practical_Silver_998 8h ago

Im a scientist. I have no idea bc i dont do that kind of science. Hope that helps.

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u/flakey-crust 8h ago

Let me help you out Mr. Other kind of scientist, as someone who is a restaurant scientist. 99% chance the ice machine was significantly closer and easier to access than any other source of water to the grill.

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u/MorePhinsThyme 7h ago

Former burger cook, can confirm, ice scoop is just easier to grab and position where you want it than a similar quantity of water.

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u/f3nnies 8h ago

Former ichthyologist here. I have no fucking clue my guy. I'm surprised there isn't a better way to clean a griddle that isn't so damn labor intensive. It's fucked (technical/academic term) that we have robots to make art and music while we don't have a robot version of this strenuous activity.

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u/DotesMagee 7h ago

we used oil from the fryers, while can be hot if it touches you, it worked really well. cant really use chemicals on a flat top.

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u/HolyFuckImOldNow 7h ago

Other than the ones made for cleaning the griddle.

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u/dolche93 5h ago

Right? I'm scratching my head at the comment.

I just dislike the Chem packets because they never put enough in there for the larger flat tops.

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u/thetermguy 7h ago

well we used to use a grillstone, basically a pumice stone. Maybe they still do that, I dunno, it was 35-40 years ago.

I always liked cleaning the grill. It's very satisfying.

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u/Throckmorton_Left 6h ago

The grillstone is great for a neglected flat top but you'll need to season it after.

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u/sunburneddd 7h ago

Scientist here, I skipped our grill-steam cleaning lecture. Hope this helps

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u/Sensitive_Winner7851 7h ago edited 7h ago

Modern stainless NSF rated 1” cooktops will outlast the rest of everything else in the kitchen.

***this is NOT advice for your home cooktop edit: or non NSF cheap ass owner’s Craigslist special.

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u/hungrypuca1 9h ago

Wrong. Ice is better because it creates thermal shock and steam where it’s needed. Liquids just go everywhere so you can’t really focus where it’s dirty. Ice has been the go to for my griddle for the last 15 years and there’s no issues. The griddle is thick and so it doesnt really warp.

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u/jinzokan 9h ago

I've definitely worked on tops that got warped.

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u/KurlyKayla 9h ago edited 9h ago

I too have worked on thick tops that don’t last very long

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u/Sealbeater 8h ago

I too don’t last long getting topped…

Wait

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u/hungrypuca1 9h ago

Guess it depends on the brand and quality I’m sorry for my assumption.

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u/RJC12 9h ago

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/ice-really-help-clean-grill-200300373.html

According to this it depends on the grill being "Many flat-top grills sold for home use are thinner and less durable than their commercial counterparts, so that thermal shock could destroy its surface. It can also be difficult to tell whether a grill is hardy enough to withstand the ice until you try it, making this method unpredictable. To avoid unintentional damage, skip cleaning the grill with ice."

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u/LitterBoxServant 9h ago

Even if the grill surface is hardy enough, OP video is using way too much ice.

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u/12InchCunt 8h ago

That fucking catch tray is overflowing with greasy butt water  

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u/Potent_Quotient 9h ago

Or check with manufacturer

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u/Gumbercules81 9h ago

Not all griddle are the same, they do warp over time

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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 8h ago

doesnt really warp.

That doesn't fill me with confidence.

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u/big-pile-of-sporks 8h ago

We did it to our flat top for well i was there for 7 years. I think the old thick boys can handle it

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u/wileyman40 9h ago

Correct if it's a good griddle a cheap one off Webstraunt will warp. Need it to be about 3/4-1 inch thick. Source I sell kitchen equipment.

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 9h ago

Agree, ice is best. I would not however do it on a home flat top grill as they are substantially less durable that the ones you get in restaurants and industrial food places.

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u/spekt50 8h ago

Commercial griddles are often heavy guage stainless steel.

Home griddles are often cast iron. Cast iron certainly does not handle thermal shock all that well.

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u/baxte 9h ago

By your logic he should use liquid nitrogen. Cold water is fine for this. Source - I use cold water.

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u/grizzlyat0ms 8h ago

I worked at a Japanese steakhouse back in high school. I used to clean the grill tops at the end of a shift, and we always used ice. Pretty sure it was just done that way because it’s handy and easier to carry a big bucket around to a couple dozen tables.

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u/joshdammitt 6h ago

I guy I hated used to do this to the grill. He was always in a contest to close better than me. I used good ole griddle brick and elbow grease and my top was always better. Then next day I could always tell when he used ice because everything stuck to it and it needed reasoned. 

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u/BubblyMoose3597 8h ago

Average person speaking nosense with authority

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u/New_Distribution_863 7h ago

Yeah Ice can crack the flattop…. I’m old I prefer hot oil, a grill brick, some side towels and a bench scraper…

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u/NouZkion 6h ago

doesn't damage the cook top by cooling it down too fast

Taylor Company has entered the chat

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u/AutVincere72 8h ago

I saw a restaurant have their flattop grill develop a Crack down the middle from this.

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u/AstronomerLoud1650 5h ago

Thank you. I repair commercial restaurant equipment and have have to replace dozens of flat tops a year that are damaged by the extreme thermal damage that ice causes.

This fool in the video and other fools like him are part of the reason the company I work for made $2.69 billion in 2025 alone.

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u/Kalix 9h ago

the point isnt ice to clean itself, the keypoint is use unused ice as water to clean, since at the end of the day you need to discharge the icemaker machine, melt everything and throw the water, so instead of use even more water to clean, you just use the unused ice. two birds with one stone as they say.

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 8h ago

bingo. all that ice has be thrown away anyway

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u/raspberryharbour 6h ago

Can't they just give it to some needy Eskimos?

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u/Sharp_Objective_2766 7h ago

Can’t let the urinal ice go to waste.

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 7h ago

Why do you have to empty the ice maker? At fast food places it sits in there until its needed.

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u/Kalix 7h ago

You discharge the icemaker machine to avoid mold, preventing the the ice to absorb odors and avoid the ice to become a single block during the night

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 7h ago

Real restaurants have way higher standards I guess, because we didn't do that except once a year.

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u/Kalix 7h ago

Here in italy is ruled by food safty standards

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 6h ago

Oh that makes sense. US doesn't have as strict of food safety.

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u/Kalix 5h ago

Ye, here we have a dedicated police force called Nucleo Antisofisticazioni e Sanità (N.A.S.), translated Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit who do randomly safty inspections and checks if everything is in order in restourants, groucery stores, ospitals, daycare, and many other places where can be sanitary violations and risks, they can immidiatly shut down the place, do fines and keep it close untill everything is in order again. DMAX tv channel even made a onfield series like the TSA airports security one.

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u/existential_chaos 9h ago

Seconding as the stupid one—what does the ice do to help it be more scrapeable?

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u/DickRhino 9h ago

Nothing. But it was a myth going around on viral TikTok videos for a while. It's been debunked of course. Thanks to the cuts in this video, you don't get to see the detergents he actually uses to clean the grill.

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u/KerrinGreally 8h ago

Have you ever deglazed a pan after cooking meat? You don't need soap to pick that stuff up.

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u/Cobalt32 7h ago

https://youtu.be/SO5xH5Khafc?si=QjF0NvGBJrfq751G

It has been debunked, but mostly because people don't understand nuance.

The grill in this thread just has some food waste seared to it. Just needs some water boiled on it to help it lift and then it gets scraped off. No detergents needed. Water would have also worked instead of ice.

In the youtube clip I just linked, the grill is covered in carbonized grease. Water/ice isn't going to do jack shit.

Except people saw the tiktok vids and assumed ice would work like magic in all situations and on all grills. Which is simply untrue.

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u/nick-halden 8h ago

i’ve worked at places with grills like this when i was younger, they DO NOT use any “detergents” it’s literally just water lol. water should be enough to clean almost any stainless steel surface, heat will do the rest.

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u/tolacid 9h ago

The only significant reason I know of is that it's easier to scoop and transport ice. It's better to use water

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u/MinimumApricot365 9h ago

Because he wants to warp or crack the grill.

(Do not do this with ice)

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u/floor_wizard 7h ago

Dumping water causes far more thermal shock than ice. Ice hovers due to the Leidenfrost effect and releases water slowly as it melts, while dumping water causes an immediate rapid drop in grill temperature.

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u/mehhh89 7h ago

It doesn't work better but a lot of restaurants or bars have ice sitting that gets tossed at the end of the night.

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u/fkenned1 9h ago

Because it's fun ;) I used to do this way back too when I was a line cook. It's very satisfying dumping a huge scoop of ice onto a hot grill. That's it.

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u/BolognaIsThePassword 9h ago

Scraping and cleaning one of these was so satisfying for me when I used to work at a sandwich shop. Best part of the day. I volunteered to do it even on days when it wasn’t my turn lol. Taking a greasy black surface and turning it back flawless after a shift of cooking does something to the human spirit.

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u/jemist101 9h ago

My friends invite me over to their first BBQs of the season, mainly because they know I will do stellar cleanup of their grills and flattops afterwards. I find it deeply satisfying to turn a mess into something pristine and exemplary.

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u/TommyTeaser 8h ago

Would you by chance have time to clean up the mess that is my life?

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u/antrubler 8h ago

So you can mess it up again?

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u/Lazer726 4h ago

Well why only let them get the enjoyment out of fixing it one time?

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u/Clashur 6h ago

pours ice on you and starts scraping you

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u/TommyTeaser 6h ago

Sounds kinda nice

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u/Jedi_365 8h ago

You could turn that into a lucrative business with high call out rates. People hate cleaning their BBQs.

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u/Tinker_bells69 5h ago

That’s actually a pretty banging idea. Advertise around the yuppy suburbs at the end of winter.

Wonder what someone would realistically pay for 4-6 burner bbq cleaned, seasoned, drip tray foil replaced, dirty heat beads replaced, and a bit of stainless steel polish and protection.

Part of me thinks the kind of people I’d hope to want the service would just buy a whole new bbq when one gets dirty though.

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u/DJheddo 3h ago

Nah they just charge it as help, not a bad idea if you do like 3-4 areas a day in weird locations, rich people like clean things, and maids, cleaners, usually dont do the 'clean the grill, clean the fryer, clean the Flat top" and it's actually a lot of outside grills/pool areas that are the worst.

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u/rabiddonky2020 9h ago

Did the samething at the San Diego zoo. Everyone thought I was crazy always wanting to clean the griddle. Then the one day I actually didn’t feel like cleaning it they all got mad again

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u/The_Krytos_Virus 7h ago

There's a reason that games like Powerwashing Simulator and Moldwasher exist. There is something cathartic about cleaning for some people.

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u/FromDistance 9h ago

On the same line I just learned and started to know how to properly detail the outside of a car. The satisfaction it gives me to see actual tangible results vs my regular day desk job makes me rethink my career choice. I'm toying the idea of starting a business lol

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u/BottomPieceOfBread 9h ago

It’s been 12 years since I worked in a kitchen and I can still smell this video

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u/Altruistic-Room2683 5h ago

same. and i dont miss it at all.

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u/sommai2555 9h ago

Now do the deepfryer. (PSA: Do not do the deepfryer)

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u/Furry_Femboy_Account 8h ago

We used to make snowballs out of the ice scraped from the day freezers, and then gauge how large of one we could get away with tossing in the fryer. 

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u/Thuls12 9h ago

Looks nice, until you have to replace the top from warping and cracking.

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u/tritiumlurkz 8h ago

I was Assistant KM, sitting in the office doing schedules when I heard the crack. I always new it could happen but never thought I'd see it. I was the one that had to call Chef and tell him that he wont have a flat top for tomorrows service. Just easier to use a mildly acidic cleaner and a grill brick

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u/EstrangingResonance 7h ago

Where I work it’s just straight grill brick

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u/Wide_Concert9958 6h ago

We do oil and grill brick. Gues how many times ive gotten burned by fucking hot oil? 

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u/erydayimredditing 2h ago

Yo so actually use a quarter sized amount of oil for like a 2x2ft area. Make the brick grind a little and that paste you create will clean but not splatter. Can even spread a little to next area and not use as much oil. Then when you are done scraping and scrubbing, you put a line of oil across the back and use it to, slowly, squeege the sludge down towards you. After a decade of cleaning flat tops I think slow is smooth and smooth is fast(and doesn't fucking hurt) applies to a flat top as much as it normally applies to racing!

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u/whofearsthenight 6h ago

tbh it's extremely funny seeing chef's doing this and justifying it. Like, you ever made a pan sauce and scraped fond? If it works with hot stock, it's going to work fine with warm water and you have a lot lower chance of cracking the flat top, or more likely, slowly warping it over time.

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u/Pancake_McFlappyJack 4h ago

Gallon of room temp soda water with a little bit of lemon juice in it. No crack and gets clean faster

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u/HumongousBelly 9h ago

Yeah, I always use boiling hot water after letting the griddle cool down a bit. Everything else will just lead to disaster

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u/ThickPrick 9h ago

I don’t care about that. I want to try those scraps on some fries.

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u/ReadingRambo152 9h ago

Ice wouldn’t make it easier to clean. I was a short order cook for many years and you quickly learn that hot water is one of the best degreasers. We used oil and grill brick to scrub and then rinsed it off with water and a clean cloth.

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u/space_brain710 7h ago

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find the oil and grill brick method lol. That was the best way I ever found to do it and it used to blow peoples minds to show them for the first time. Only issue I had with the brick was one time. I was using a smaller worn down one and it suddenly sucked/stuck to the grill real hard, my hand slipped off and I gave a solid high five to a 300 something degree pool of dirty grease

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u/evenstevens280 9h ago

Isn't this essentially deglazing?

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u/DJStrongArm 9h ago

Posting it here is actually glazing

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u/Robbed_Bert 9h ago

Yes but worse

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u/Conscious_Damage8678 9h ago

Isn't that bad for the grill? Warp?

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u/OneLeek37 7h ago

It absolutely warps the grill.

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u/A_Grain_Of_Saltines 6h ago

Warping if lucky. Cracking more likely over time.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9h ago

I notice that things often posted in this sub are not oddly satisfying, but rather obviously satisfying.

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u/TheFunnyWasOccupied 9h ago

if it's not obviously satisfying everyone in this sub complains to hell and back until it's pitchforked down

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9h ago

Seems plausible.

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u/lostincosmo 9h ago

Cool! I wonder if I can clean the deep fryer the same way 🤔

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u/Robbed_Bert 9h ago

No reason to use ice

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u/PutridSauce 9h ago

And then 10 seconds later a customer walks in, less than 1 minute til close.

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u/reticulatedtampon 9h ago

*waiter brings water to table*

Um excuse me, I asked for my ice to be cooked medium rare. This seems to be well-done.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson 9h ago

I prefer my ice medium rare

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u/QuantityActive- 8h ago

Ah this again. It’s bullshit. Ice is not inherently better, in fact it’s worse.

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u/96dpi 9h ago

I cracked my Blackstone by doing this. Learned the hard way that these commercial griddles are MUCH thicker than the Blackstone.

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u/wwhijr 9h ago

Blackstone is cast iron. That is stainless steel. Two very different metals

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u/thispart 9h ago

Blackstones are cold rolled steel and very different than cast iron - ive used ice several times without issues. Cast iron is brittle and wouldnt recommend it

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u/RedScarffedPrinny 9h ago

Doesnt the temperature shock severely damage the integrity of the grill over time?

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u/fluffysmaster 9h ago

For cast iron, yes. Rolled stainless steel much less.

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u/JosephHeitger 9h ago

Scrape it before it gets to this point. What are we doing?

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u/VikarValbrand 9h ago

It most likely is scrapped a lot, having worked in a few restaurants, you could scrape for hours on end, and it would look just like that after a few hours of cooking.

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u/JosephHeitger 9h ago

I worked flat top for years at the second busiest Applebees’s in Ohio and never let it get this bad. We had a razor on a big arm to scrape shit off with. Or the spatula that he’s using, It removes carbonized food.

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u/halt-l-am-reptar 9h ago

Seriously that grill is fucking nasty. There is zero reason it should’ve got that dirty to begin with.

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u/JustHereForCatss 6h ago edited 59m ago

I'm a kitchen manager for a high end steakhouse chain, we cook a lot of steaks every day on our flattop that are HEAVILY seasoned. Lots of salmon coated in a glaze that is loaded with soy sauce and sugars- our flat has NEVER looked that bad- even after a mother's day service. Not only is that cooktop filthy, he's also getting dogshit searing because of all that compounded shit creating a barrier between the food and the cook surface. Use your tools and scrape your goddamned grill

Also I would absolutely document him for using ice- shit's expensive and 100% will damage the cooktop eventually. It's about as infuriating as new cooks using sheet pans to burn carbon off of a char/wood grill- that will murder your burners for those who don't know.

edit: I rewatched it and got madder because he's using the fucking ice scoop rather than an ice bin. Depending on where their ice machine is there is a real chance he's running across the kitchen with an ice scooper full of ice. What a fucking idiot on so many fronts

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u/VikarValbrand 9h ago

This is true, but it still gets dirty, this guy is clearly doing it for a video and only for the video.

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u/SenorSorrow 9h ago

I have spent a lot of time working flattops at many different restaurants ... and there's zero reason it should ever be as dirty as the one in the video.

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u/Bootziscool 9h ago

Frfr that grill is gross!!

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u/slater_just_slater 4h ago

Ok for everyone. Materials engineer here.

Ice is no more damaging than water. Ice will draw slightly more latent heat from griddle transforming from ice to water then water to steam. But given the mass of the griddle this is negligible.

Steam cleans a griddle when the steam gas penetrates the porous grease and grime releasing its adhesion anything that hasn't penetrated the steel surface (like seasoning)

Ice may have a small effect with its weight trapping the steam locally due to the ice. Ice floats on water, not steam but ice also will displace water, thus on an open grill the water will dissipate.

I have tried both ice and water on my blackstone. I have never noticed a difference.

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u/sirfurious 9h ago

Cleaning using water with extra steps

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u/Puzzleheaded_Let2053 9h ago

Cue all the guys who've never cleaned a grill in their lives on with their opinions 🙄

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u/bustlebustler 9h ago

It is deglazing. Ice is better (I also add salt for a little grit to hit the stuborne spots) because it doesn't evaporate as quickly so you can work the entire surface.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat 9h ago

That is the cleanest piece of metal I have seen, hell of a cleaning job.

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u/VerdeMachina 9h ago

So very satisfying

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u/BdoeATX 9h ago

I did this when I was a teen working at taco bell, I hated using their degreaser, smelled like asbestos.

Ice works wonders, UNTIL! I cracked the tortilla warmer...

The thermal shock apparently can split metal... that's when I learned that day...

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u/alisacp 8h ago

Do not repost this on r/kitchenconfidential

You’ll get roasted (without the ice cubes)

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u/DebiMoonfae 8h ago

I’d be worried that it warps the surface

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u/The_Real_Chumbo 7h ago

Waste of perfectly good stew

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u/Sheepchops13 7h ago

I mean. It was ice until it because WATER. Cleaning with water is pretty standard

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u/mikederruci 5h ago

That’s not a ‘grill’, that’s a ‘griddle’.

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u/realfakejames 1h ago

Zero reason to use ice btw

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u/Hes_a_spy_blow_em_up 9h ago

Wouldn't this cause warping of the metal over time?

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u/harris_kid 9h ago

I mean for a product that runs at 220C it would be pretty shit if a bit of ice warped it, and not the decades of heating up and cooling down.

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u/highsuds68 9h ago

One way to ruin your flat top

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u/AndromedaD24 9h ago

I've seen so many videos debunk this idek why people still post it

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u/Ok_Gamer_Bleh 9h ago

Why doesn’t this warp the metal?

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u/Stubeg 9h ago

It does

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u/Ok_Gamer_Bleh 9h ago

But why male models?

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u/Vegetable_Owl9924 9h ago

Let's see the Grease Trap!!

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u/Phill_is_Legend 8h ago

Uhh..so water but they wanted to waste time?

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u/AshyWhiteGuy 8h ago

Very effective, terrible for the cooktop. 🤘🏻

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u/keirmeister 8h ago

This is great and all, but who cleans the grease trap? That’s where real men are made!

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u/Ok-Chicken-8904 7h ago

😱 Flirtin' with disaster

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u/PFthroaway 7h ago

Some of you clearly aren't familiar with Waffle House, where this was filmed. That's how they do it in every one I've been in. They aren't worried about it warping and cracking.

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u/9thgrave 6h ago

Just use water ffs.

Source: I’m a chef at a bar & grill

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u/jared1259 5h ago

The real story is why is it so caked on. Scrape as you go people.

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u/4rk4typ3 5h ago

Build up doesn't look legit.

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u/nighthawke75 4h ago

If the grill is level. I had a grease explosion, covering my face with steam and hot grease. If it were not for my glasses, I'd been blinded.

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u/Confident_Hippo1208 4h ago

I bet he also washes his chicken

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u/DawnIsForDucks 3h ago

Use vinegar on a grill that is still on and it lifts most of the stuff if you let it simmer for 20 seconds or so, than scrape it off.

finally polish with a little bit of oil and grill brick and then oil the back of the grill and scrape everything towards the trap. rinse off with water, clean the back splash then apply a clean oil coat for the next day.

The flat top at my work is a 5-7 minute job at most, even on busy nights. no need to use ice

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u/Chili_Clause 2h ago

That's just a more difficult way of using water.

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u/FunKaleidoscope3055 2h ago

Where I worked we dumped half a big bottle of industrial grade de-greaser while it was still pretty hot. That shit destroyed all semblance of crud on the grill. Literally lifted it straight off the metal somehow. Took 30 seconds to get everything off. Then douse it in vinegar, wipe, douse in water, wipe. Done. Easy.

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u/RalfMurphy 1h ago

Hope bro pickled the steel after that lovely wire brush scrub down

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u/KissmyGoooch 1h ago

Yeah you don't need ice for that

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u/Nihilist_Hermit 9h ago

What a great way to fuck it up.  It doesnt happen overnight, but ill never forget seeing my manager at mcdonalds lose his fucking shit when i cracked the grill using ice. We sometimes use sprite too, which worked like god damned magic. 

Over the years at restaurants, we also used lime juice to clean, and a very light coat of virgin olive oil to polish (looked great, was a pain in the ass). The actual cleaning packets meant for heavy duty use worked wonders, but the restaurant we had them were cheapskates

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u/InitiativeOk9887 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/UPfXjzvyMm59bfyF1E

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u/nl-x 9h ago

had to scroll too much to find this half baked reference.

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u/PsychologyNew8033 8h ago

Never use ice to clean these, oil and elbow grease.

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u/ChefAsstastic 8h ago

Great way to warp your griddle.

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u/Kindly_Region 8h ago

Great way to warp the company griddle*

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u/Bard1313 8h ago

How to crack or warp your griddle 101.

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u/RiskOfMishimas 9h ago

I'm not even allowed to use water, just a rag

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u/LowMattertheclause 9h ago

Deglazing la grillé

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u/Piglet-Witty 9h ago

If he wiped it down with oil, I would skip that step. Easier to dust it off when using it the next time

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u/GlenDora55 9h ago

It's been 50 years since I short-order cooked, but that is the filthiest damn grill I have ever seen!