Wipe pad for cooking grill
AssigneeGrate Chef, LLC
InventorW. Keith Aldredge
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Abstract
A wipe pad (10) for cleaning debris from cooking grate (24) while preparing the cooking grate for use in cooking foods, in which the wipe pad has a sheet of an absorbent fire retardant material with a cooking agent (18) received by the sheet. The sheet, being attached to a grill brush (26) by a plurality of bristles (32) extending therefrom and partially penetrating the sheet, clings to the grill brush (26) for wiping contact of the sheet against the grate (24) upon movement of the grill brush to clean cooking debris from the cooking grate while communicating a film of the cooking agent from the sheet to prepare the cooking grate for use. A method of preparing a cooking grate for cooking is disclosed.
Claims21
A wipe pad for cleaning debris from a cooking grill while preparing the cooking grill for use in cooking foods, comprising:
- a sheet of an absorbent fire retardant material;
- a cooking agent received by the sheet;
- whereby the sheet, being attached to a grill brush by a plurality of bristles extending therefrom and partially penetrating the sheet, clings thereto for wiping contact of the sheet against the cooking grill upon movement of the grill brush to clean cooking debris from the cooking grill while the cooking agent communicates from the sheet as a film onto the cooking grill to prepare the cooking grill for use.
A wipe pad for cleaning debris from a cooking grill while preparing the cooking grill for use in cooking foods, comprising:
- a textile fabric sheet of an absorbent fire retardant material needle-punched to define a plurality of fibrous latches extending from a major surface of the sheet;
- a cooking agent received by the sheet, whereby the sheet, being attached to a grill brush by a plurality of bristles extending therefrom and partially penetrating the sheet, clings thereto aided by the latches for wiping contact of the sheet against the cooking grill upon movement of the grill brush to clean cooking debris from the cooking grill while the cooking agent communicates from the sheet onto the cooking grill to prepare the cooking grill for use.
A method of preparing a cooking grill for use in cooking foods, comprising the steps of:
- (a) attaching a sheet of an absorbent fire retardant material to a handle by partially piercing the sheet with a plurality of bristles extending from the handle, the sheet receiving a cleaning and cooking agent;
- (b) moving the handle to bring a surface of the sheet into moving contact with a cooking grill, while the cleaning and cooking agent communicates from the sheet to cooperatively dislodge debris in cleaning the cooking grill while leaving a film of the cooking agent thereon for cooking foods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.