Used together with a bit of elbow grease, CLR's BBQ Grill Cleaner Spray and CLR's Stainless Steel Cleaner can leave your grill looking brand new. It's not often that I'm genuinely surprised by the quality of a product. In my line of work and in my several hobbies, I've tested a fair amount of cleaning products from a number of brands, and while most prove adequate or even impressive, few in recent years have left me as impressed as two grill cleaning formulas made by the vaunted brand CLR (Calcium Lime Rust).
CLR BBQ Grill Cleaner is a foamy spray formula that is safe to apply all over the grates, burners, and other interior components of your grill. It's non-toxic, non-flammable, and even biodegradable, so health and environmental concerns are essentially nil. It's also super tough on grease, grime, soot, and baked on char. With a coat of this stuff on the grates of my much-loved, not-all-that-much-cleaned gas grill, it took me about two minutes of scraping and scouring to restore the cooking surface to the pure, shiny state I remember from the first day I used the grill.
Dozens of soap and water cleanings came nowhere close to the efficacy of a single use of this stuff, and to be honest, I think the burgers I cooked on the grill an hour later even tasted better than that last round cooked up before the deep cleaning.
As the grates of my grill weren't the only surface that needed some TLC, I was glad to also have a can of CLR Stainless Steel Cleaner on hand. This stuff brought out a shine I could hardly believe the exterior of my grill could achieve after years sitting outside facing the elements, and as with the BBQ Grill Cleaner spray, the cleaning process took about two minutes. (The canister looks oddly like cooking spray, so be careful not to confuse the two.)
With more than 200 customer reviews posted on Amazon, the CLR Stainless Steel Cleaner has a 4.2-star average rating. One reviewer called it "a great cleaner" that removed even the most stubborn spots on her steel stove. Another said, "Nothing else cleans our stainless-steel refrigerator."
Pros: BBQ Grill Cleaner cuts through stubborn grease and grime, Stainless Steel Cleaner works with minimal manual effort, trusted brand name
Cons: Stainless Steel Cleaner leaves a film on nearby surfaces
Buy a Two-Pack of CLR BBQ Grill Cleaner on Amazon for $33.41 Buy a can of CLR Stainless Steel Cleaner on Amazon for $7.91