HOW TO CLEAN A COMMERCIAL GRIDDLE SURFACE WITH GRILLMASTER PUMICE STONES
While cleaning methods and materials may differ from chef to chef, the goal is universal: a clean, sanitary griddle that allows for efficient cooking and delicious, unadulterated food.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Griddle Cleaning Brick
Griddle Scraper
Cooking oil
Soda water/club soda
Vinegar
Rag
It usually takes 5-10 minutes to properly clean a grill.
DIRECTIONS
While the griddle is hot, pour 1 cup of cooking oil (you can use fryer oil) onto the griddle surface.
Scrub the griddle surface with a griddle brick/pumice stone, making small concentric circles—Miyagi style—until the surface is clean.
Scrape the oil into the grease trough and discard. Turn the griddle off.
Pour (carefully) 1 cup of club soda/seltzer water onto the still-hot griddle. The carbonation helps loosen and lift stubborn grease.
Scrub the griddle surface with your griddle brick/pumice stone, making small concentric circles until the surface is clean. Scrape remaining liquid into the trough for discarding.
Pour 1/2 cup of vinegar onto the griddle surface, spreading liquid out evenly across the entire surface and not allowing the vinegar to pool.
Rub the griddle surface with a rag, making small concentric circles until the surface is polished.
Scrape the vinegar into your grease trough and discard.
Rub the surface with a rag soaked in cooking oil to polish and reseason the steel.
Bask in the warm glow of your newly cleaned griddle.
“HOW OFTEN SHOULD I CLEAN MY COMMERCIAL GRIDDLE?”
If your griddle sees heavy daily use, we advise cleaning it daily. This will prevent flavor transfer, efficiency loss and unsightly burnt-oil-flake contamination.
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