Grills and moth balls

[Kurt Ullman]

I use mothballs to help keep critters out of my pool heater during the winter. I am thinking about doing the same for my gas grill. Any particular reason I shouldn"t?

[Lawrence]

Since you use it to prepare food. Those moth balls release noxious gases which could be transmitted to your food.

[Kurt Ullman]

Oops. Let me try it again. I was just going to let them sit on the grill, probably still in the box, over the winter when I am not using it anyway.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Please forget that idea. If you want to poison your family, be a man about it and use cyanide or arsenic so it makes for a good news story. If you want to protect the grill, buy one of those huge plastic storage containers often used for blankets & clothing.

[Joseph Meehan]

I have seen it recommended to keep spiders out of the gas tubes. I would be sure that there was no way I would somehow miss them before I started to prepare food on the grill.

[Kurt Ullman]

Cool. Since it is my grill and since I am hypervigilant about getting moth balls out of places (since the time I forgot to take the box out of the pool heater before they opened the pool), I should be good to go.

[Jim Yanik]

Kurt Ullman wrote in news:kurtullman- [e-mail]:

Once you turn on the grill and preheat it,those mothballs would be history.

I'd try it and see how it works. They might not last all that long,tough. IMO,not a bad idea.