To those saying “I’ve never seen bristles on my food or grill”, do you think the person that ate one saw it? I’m thinking they didn’t see it and that’s why it got eaten. Also if you think “I’ve never eaten a bristle”, how do you know? You could eat small fragments and they could pass through you, or they could be small enough that it got stuck in the lining of your digestive track and simply became encysted. Maybe you had digestive upset briefly and never knew the cause. We switched to the wood scraper and a spray bottle when I first read about this. I like the wood because eventually you are throwing away a metal and plastic brush where as the scraper is 100% biodegradable and can go right in the yard waste recycling bin (I just use a thin piece of cedar). Every fire station I’ve worked at has a grill, and some are the kind with the closed, wave shaped grills that don’t allow objects to fall through. The station I work at now had a brush that was very worn when I first got there. I checked the grill and this is what I found…
I took the plates out and pressure washed them until completely clean. I posted pictures on the fridge so people would look closer and see what they were obviously missing, threw out the brush and got the station a wood scraper.
