When do you scrape you grill grates?

[SpaceGal]

I scrape before I grill. I remember reading it in the manual that it was best to do it that way for our grill....helps season it or something.

[Penny's Pappa]

I heat up the grill and scrape before cooking. I could scrape after cooking, but I'm too busy eating

[Kindra178]

I heat up the grill and scrape before cooking. I could scrape after cooking, but I'm too busy eating

Me too. By the way, I just got a Grill Daddy and that thing is incredible.

[pinkmomagain]

I scrape like your DH (sorry!).

[nfceagles]

I do it before cooking like your DH. I just know I would forget the gas was on if I did it after cooking. (I like to turn it up high for a few minutes, so I can't do it immediately after pulling the food off. )

[new_mommy25]

DH scrapes before cooking. I don't even know how to turn on our grill.

[eh613c]

I usually clean it after I used it. DH, however, just leaves it until its next use (I let him clean it). He first gets the coals going. Once the grill is hot, he scrapes it and then takes a paper towel and put a little bit of olive oil and wipes the grill with it.

[BabyBearsMom]

My DH scrapes it after he cooked while the grill is still warm but not hot anymore. He is a neat-freak though and doesn't like any thing to look less than pristine.

[BayGirl2]

Pretty sure my DH scrapes both before and after.

He's a grilling/BBQ/Smoking fanatic and we have a huge charcoal smoker/grill. I used to actually grill on my own, but he's so in to it that I've let that skill atrophy. Its actually one of the domestic skills I feel bad about becoming helpless on. (I imagine its similar to the feeling SAHM's get about certain skills after being out of the work environment for a while.)