Which grill brushes were recalled in 2026?

Weber recalled about 3.2 million metal wire bristle grill brushes on 26 February 2026, covering models 6277, 6278, 6463, 6464, 6493 and 6494. Nexgrill recalled about 10.2 million wire bristle grill brushes on 26 March 2026. Both recalls cite the same hazard: bristles detaching and being swallowed without detection.

What should I do if I own a recalled grill brush?

Stop using it. Weber owners can contact Weber on 877-597-9588 or through weberbrushrecall.expertinquiry.com for a free replacement, and are asked to discard the recalled brush. Do not keep using it in the meantime, and check the grate carefully before your next cook.

My brush was not recalled. Is it safe?

A recall covers known defective batches, not every brush that can shed. If the bristles are moulded permanently into a sealed head you cannot inspect the wire, which is the check that actually tells you whether a brush is still safe. Look for splayed, kinked, heat-discoloured or missing strands, and stop using any brush showing them.

Are all wire grill brushes dangerous?

CPSC enforcement has targeted brushes with a design that lets bristles detach undetected rather than the category as a whole, and CPSC advises consumers to switch to non-wire alternatives. Any wire can fatigue and come loose. The difference that matters in practice is whether you can take the head off and look at the wire before you cook.

Grill Brush Recall 2026: Weber & Nexgrill Models

The two recalls

Weber, 26 February 2026. About 3.2 million metal wire bristle grill brushes, models 6277, 6278, 6463, 6464, 6493 and 6494. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded 38 reports of bristles detaching, with four people needing medical treatment. Weber's remedy is a free replacement cold-cleaning nylon bristle brush; owners are asked to discard the recalled one. Weber's recall line is 877-597-9588, or weberbrushrecall.expertinquiry.com.

Nexgrill, 26 March 2026. About 10.2 million wire bristle grill brushes, after 68 reports of bristles detaching including five in which someone swallowed a bristle.

Why both notices say the same thing

The hazard wording in the two recalls is nearly identical, and one phrase is doing all the work: bristles that detach and are swallowed without detection.

That is the actual failure. A bristle working loose is the first half. Nobody being able to see that it had come loose is the second half, and the second half is what turns a stray piece of wire into surgery. A swallowed bristle can perforate the throat, stomach or intestine, and the symptoms are vague enough that it is often not diagnosed quickly.

If you own one of the recalled brushes

Stop using it now rather than at the end of the season.
Contact the manufacturer for the free replacement. You will be asked to discard the brush rather than send it back.
Before your next cook, wipe the grate down with a damp cloth and look along the bars in good light. A bristle on a grate is small, dark and easy to miss.

If your brush wasn't recalled

A recall covers a known defective batch. It is not a clean bill of health for everything else, and 13.4 million units in one month suggests the design problem is wider than two model lists.

So check it yourself. You are looking for wire that is splayed, kinked, discoloured from heat, or has strands missing. Any one of those means the brush is finished. Compare the bristle density at the middle of the head against the edges, because that is usually where loss shows first.

The catch is that on most brushes you cannot do this properly. The bristles are moulded permanently into a sealed head, so you can look at the outside of the wire and nothing else. That is the gap the recalls sit in.

What CPSC recommends

CPSC advises consumers to stop using recalled brushes and to switch to non-wire alternatives such as bristle-free coil brushes, pumice blocks, wooden scrapers or grill wipes. Its enforcement has been aimed at brushes whose design lets bristles detach undetected, rather than at wire as a category.

Bristle-free tools genuinely remove the ingestion risk. The trade is cleaning power: on baked-on carbon they are slower and less thorough than wire, which is why wire brushes never went away and why a lot of bristle-free tools end up unused in a drawer. Weber's own remedy in this recall was to send owners a nylon brush.

The other way to close the gap

If the failure is undetected wire, the other fix is to make the wire detectable rather than to remove it.

That is what we build. The BrushGrill's stainless head comes off with a wrench included in the box, so you can hold the wire under a light and look down its length before you cook. Ten seconds, no tools of your own.

It is not a claim that our wire cannot come loose. Any wire can, ours included. It is a claim that you can look and know, which is the thing neither recalled brush allowed.

See the brush — €67

Sources

US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Weber Recalls Over 3.2 Million Metal Wire Bristle Grill Brushes Due to Ingestion Hazard, 26 February 2026.
US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Chairman's statement, CPSC Expands Enforcement Targeting Hazardous Wire Grill Brushes Manufactured Overseas, covering the Nexgrill recall of 26 March 2026.
Baugh TP, Hadley JB, Chang CWD. Epidemiology of Wire-Bristle Grill Brush Injury in the United States, 2002–2014. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2016;154(4):645–649.

This page is written by a company that sells a grill brush, so read it with that in mind. The recall facts above come from CPSC's own notices and you should check them there rather than take our word for it.