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The Benefits of Utilizing a BBQ Refurbish Service in Toronto

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Remember the first day your BBQ was brought home and set up? Remember how good it looked? Remember the first time you cooked with it? Remember how fresh and delicious the food tasted? After a while, BBQ parts start to show signs of wear and tear, and the overall function of the grill worsens. The fact is that even with proper BBQ cleaning, even top-of the line BBQs or BBQ parts cannot last more than a few years.

Should I replace my grill or go for a BBQ refurbishment service?

Without a doubt, refurbishment is the better option. The average quality of grill stores offer has actually declined over the years to appeal to a more conservative budget. It is difficult to find a BBQ that is made like they used to be, with glass sliders now replacing aluminum grill covers and cheap aluminized steel now replacing premium stainless steel finishes. In fact, BBQs produced over 5 years ago are worth significantly more than they were at the time. It would therefore be equivalent to throwing away money to junk your old BBQ and buy one of the newer and more cheaply made models. With modern technology, our BBQ refurbishment experts will give new life to your grill. They will make it function even more smoothly and produce more delicious food than when it was brand new.

What benefits will I experience with my refurbished BBQ?

  • Better Taste – The food you cook with your grill will no more taste gassy, charred, or overly greasy, but instead fresh and smokey, like barbecued food is meant to. The decreased risk of gas leaks and unevenly cooked food will make your food healthier, too.
  • Smoother Function – Time often makes BBQs less enjoyable to use by producing rusty hinges, poorer thermal insulation that allow heat to escape onto the cook, and unpleasant grease buildups in the griller’s workspace. After refurbishment, your grill will be spotless and its hinges and dials will work like a charm. Using your grill will be an effortless and comfortable experience again.
  • Better Look – Your BBQ’s parts and stainless steel finish will sparkle like the day they were made.

It is easy to restore you beloved BBQ to its former glory without going through the time-consuming and labor-intensive task of doing it yourself. Just contact our Toronto-based team of BBQ refurbishment experts and we will be happy to assist you.

Some Top BBQ Cleaning Tips from Our Experts in Toronto

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Cleanliness is key to keeping your BBQ, one of the centerpieces of your home, from falling into disrepair. Keeping your BBQ clean will extend its life and allow it to keep producing delicious food fun and easy. Cleaning a BBQ can be time consuming, laborious, and unpleasant, however, if it is not done correctly. Below you’ll find several essential tips of what and what not to do in order to keep your BBQ looking and running pristinely.

What NOT To Do

  • Don’t Overuse Cleaning Agents – Chemical sprays marketed as BBQ cleaning agents should be avoided. Besides spraying possibly harmful chemicals into the air when used, they can severely affect the taste and cleanliness of food cooked on the grill.
  • Don’t Use Pressure Cleaners – High pressure cleaning devices are small spray cans that spray highly pressurized jets of air and are said to help clean BBQs by spraying away grease. In actual fact, the air jets will simply push the grease further into the inner workings of the BBQ, gumming up the works.
  • Don’t Be Rough with Your Stainless Steel – Use of abrasive chemicals or rough scrubbers like steel wool during BBQ cleaning can permanently damage your BBQ’s premium stainless steel finish. Only using soap, warm water, and non-scratch scrubbers is advisable.
  • Don’t Remove the Burners – Although BBQ service experts can do this, it is not advisable for the layman cleaning their BBQ. The burners can be extremely complicated to reattach correctly, and failure to do so will cause safety hazards.

What To Do

  • Turn Off the Gas – Safety is the #1 concern when cleaning your grill, and leaving the gas running is a bad idea.
  • Clean the BBQ While It is Still Warm from Use – This allows you to clean off residue before it cools and hardens. After cooking, you can leave one of the burner tubes on and close the lid to keep everything from cooling if you want to come back a little later and do the cleaning.
  • Use Your Dishwasher – Get more use out of your dishwasher by letting it clean your dirty BBQ parts! All parts are dishwasher-safe, and dishwashers are guaranteed not to leave chemical cleaning residue. Be sure to spray parts with cooking oil and heat them after reinstalling them.

These are just a few of the many tips that one should be aware of when cleaning a grill. All in all, cleaning can be a huge chore, and hiring our BBQ cleaning experts, available throughout the Toronto area, may be easier and safer.

How to Tell Whether You Need BBQ Repair

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When it is new, a BBQ looks amazing and cooks spectacularly, but after a while, it starts to fall foul of wear and tear. Unless painstakingly maintained, it will fall into a state of disrepair. Luckily, the BBQ service experts at Toronto-based BBQpros are happy to restore your grill to its former glory for you! Here are some ways to tell if you are in need of BBQ repair.

  • The taste is not quite there – As barbecues age, the taste of the food they produce becomes more reminiscent of gas, ash, or chemicals than the fresh and woody flavor intended. This can be because of incidental damage to the regulator valve or manifold portions of the BBQ, normal wear and tear of the burner tubes, grease buildup on the grill, or overuse of chemical cleaning agents during BBQ cleaning.
  • The machine and food smell bad – Incorrectly used cleaning agents or uncared-for lava rocks in the BBQ can lead to an unpleasant smell sinking into its parts. A bad-smelling grill will, in turn, lead to bad-smelling food.
  • The BBQ is not emitting as much heat as it should – The burners may be giving off orange rather than blue flames for a variety of reasons. For example, your regulator may be faulty. Your manifold or your burners may be blocked because of grease buildup or (as strange as it may sound) a small animal living inside the BBQ. The pressure settings on the machine may be incorrect. In any case, low heat will affect your food’s cooking time as well as making it less satisfying and less safe to eat.
  • The machine just doesn’t look like it used to – Of course, how your BBQ works is of utmost importance, but how it looks is important too! A new-looking grill is a thing of beauty, but incorrect cleaning methods and the normal wear and tear of being a versatile cooker can really show in the BBQ’s finish, something which BBQ repair can erase.
  • Controls are hot to the touch – This may be a sign that the BBQ’s thermal insulation is experiencing problems or that the condition of the internal heat shields is deteriorating. If this is allowed to continue, the controls could actually start to burn you when used.

We at BBQpros understand that a BBQ is a big investment. The machines are not cheap, and the versatile and delicious fun they can provide must be maintained. Let our BBQ repair experts make your grill good as new.

Toronto’s BBQ Pros present A Guide to the Main BBQ Parts

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The outdoor grill is a proud western tradition that has been a cornerstone of parties, family gatherings, and casual dinners in Toronto and beyond for more than 60 years. Outdoor BBQs have enjoyed immense popularity as quick and easy ways to prepare delicious food over the years, and that popularity has inspired many variations of the original design. Proper BBQ cleaning, BBQ repair, and BBQ part maintenance are key to keeping that smoky goodness from fading.

What Are the Main BBQ parts?

If working properly, BBQs can be easily used to produce a delicious array of steaming food. However, the inner workings of gas BBQs are quite complex. Several main components of a gas BBQ include:

  • Propane Tank – OK, this isn’t technically part of the grill, but it is where the magic starts when you are cooking with a BBQ.
  • Regulator Valve – This valve is located behind the tube that connects the propane tank to the grill itself. It prevents the flow from the propane tank from becoming dangerous, maxing out the temperatures the grill can reach at 300F.
  • Grill Hose – A hose that carries the propane from the regulator valve up to the main body of the grill.
  • Manifold – The manifold is composed of several diverging pipes that receive the flow of propane from the grill hose and split it up into several flows – one for each of the burner tubes.
  • Ignition – Using piezoelectricity, the ignition sends a spark to the propane streaming through the manifold to turn the streams that go into the burner tubes into flame.
  • Burner Tubes – Long, thin tubes punctuated by small holes that run under the grill’s cooking surface.
  • Grill – The surface where the actual cooking takes place. It is usually made of thinly spaced black bars that allow food to rest on them but also allow the heat emitting from the burner tubes to have its full effect on the food.

Of course, this is only a partial listing of BBQ parts; describing every part in detail could fill an entire book. If these parts get old without undergoing the proper BBQ maintenance, however, they can easily go bad. This may mean that your BBQ isn’t able to produce enough heat or it may not light altogether, ruining your backyard hangout or other social event that could benefit from some good ol’ fashioned BBQ food.

Cleaning, repairs and maintenance

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BBQ Pros is a mobile barbecue cleaning and repair service. Ask about our yearly maintenance packages. Serving the GTA including Toronto, Brampton, Georgetown, Mississauga, Richmond Hill, and Vaughan. BBQ Pros was founded in 2007.

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