Tips for washing out UDS - no outdoor tap!

[robgunby]

I need to pick the sometimes ingenious hive mind of bbbqs

Bottom of my UDS is disgusting. I thought it would generally keep itself "bbq clean" with the intense heat generated working like a self cleaning oven, but it's full of disgusting crap.

I have no outdoor tap, no hose, no pressure washer.

Is it just a case of getting a long broom and a bucket of hot soapy water, or has anyone got any better ideas?

I'm a short arse, so getting to the bottom of the drum is tricky. As is turning it over to rinse it out and all that. It's not impossible, just cumbersome!

Oh, and I'm lazy, which is why I'm sitting here trying to think of ways around doing any real actual work to clean it.

[CyderPig]

Set a Ash catcher under the FB, no clean up needed.
Si

[robgunby]

Thanks Captain Hindsight! Yep, already got that planned for next cook but gotta scrub out the gunk first

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[Verminskti]

Can you no burn hot in it. Like as if you were burning out for the first time. Would that help? Else maybe a portable steam cleaner jobby?

[alister667]

What I do with my UDS is hold it upside down and bang it off a shed wall a couple of times so most of the gunk falls out. Anything that's left is an 'anti-rust coating'! I don't bother washing or scrubbing.

[robgunby]

We're talking an inch of grease and ash, and it smells like death. I'm gonna scrub it, re-season it, and make some mods to my firebox including an ash pan. WIll be worth the effort in the long run. Thing could do with a sand and respray on a warm day too.

[aris]

I use this as an ash collector

http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Metal-Tray/40-7580-1

[robgunby]

I use this as an ash collector

http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Metal-Tray/40-7580-1

Looks spot on, thanks. Just need to check the width of the bolts that hold my grill, but from memory I think the gap is just over 52 cm. Guess they can be shortened if needs be anyway.

[CyderPig]

We're talking an inch of grease and ash, and it smells like death. I'm gonna scrub it, re-season it, and make some mods to my firebox including an ash pan. WIll be worth the effort in the long run. Thing could do with a sand and respray on a warm day too.

Mine doesn't burn like that, why have you got so much fat in the drum? I have cooked up to 14kg of pork at one time and not had that problem, I have had only 1 fat fire in over 10 years and that was leaving the lid off for 20 min's when I fell asleep during a cook, during normal cooks I get no fat deposits, the fat drips on the coals and gets evaporated.
Si

[stretchie_]

What I do with my UDS is hold it upside down and bang it off a shed wall a couple of times so most of the gunk falls out. Anything that's left is an 'anti-rust coating'! I don't bother washing or scrubbing.

Same here but I empty it into an ash bin then shovel some in to the main bin everytime they come for a collection