Cleaning a George Foreman

Dazi

Put wet paper towel on the plate and close the grill and turn on for a while, that gets most of it off, have to say it was the cleaning that has stopped me using it so much, I see the new ones have removable plates - much better idea!

Ches

~daisy~ wrote: »

clean it when still hot with damp soapy cloth - dead easy

ditto. Works a treat.

trying-very-trying

I have to agree with most of above, but I recently got the best cloth ever for this job. It was a pack of three like microfibre chequerboard cloths(does that make sense?) from aldi. Any way they're yellow, a nice size, and they really do a brilliant job of cleaning the grill without any damage.

P.S. if you've let the grill go cold before cleaning, just switch it on and let it heat up again to clean it... no problem.
P.P.S. I've chucked a little one in the bin before because I had scraped all the non stick off it.

trying-very-trying

superscaper wrote: »

Heat up grill and use damp cloth and plastic scraper that comes with grill. You can also get specific george foreman scourers/sponges that work really well.

these don't work great, I've tried them. They're no problem if the grill isn't too sticky, but no good for cleaning up after sticky sausages or even bacon.

superscaper

trying-very-trying wrote: »

these don't work great, I've tried them. They're no problem if the grill isn't too sticky, but no good for cleaning up after sticky sausages or even bacon.

Well they work for me so not much else I can say on that.

Ticklemouse

I agree they are a pain to clean - I either take them over next to the sink and use a nonstick pan scrubber and washing up liquid, or (only recently started doing this) leaving a wet dishcloth or couple of pieces of wet kitchen paper between the two plates while it's still warm, then you can easily wipe the rest off.

It's the one piece of kitchen equipment that is going with the ex Mr TM when he eventually eff's off

merlinormartin

You can buy a george foreman "cleaning sponge" its fits into the grooves nicely http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0300418345.1192231347@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfeaddmemmdfiicflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=100699&category_oid=-30601

Happy cleaning!

Jersy

i only have a small one, but i just wipe it clean every time i use it with damp kitchen roll,

works a treat

jackieb

I just scrape the worst of it off with the scraper. I leave mine to cool. It didn't occur to be to have it warm. Then I damp kitchen roll with the soapy washing up water, lay the towel on the plates and close it, and leave it to soak in while I wash the dishes. I scrape off what's left with the kitchen roll and just wipe it with the washing up sponge or a microfibre cloth. It's never been that hard to clean.

Crazychik

I think Im with the majority on this, tend to clean whilst still warm, just wipe over with kitchen roll.
If Ive grilled something fatty, hot soapy water helps.