Abstract: An outdoor gas barbecue grill having an electric self-cleaning unit. The gas barbecue grill includes a grill housing, a grill cover, and a lower grill housing for receiving a gas burner and a cooking grate member. The underside of the cooking grate member includes a plurality of heating members made of metal attached thereto. One of the walls of the lower grill housing includes an electric self-cleaning heating unit mounted thereon and includes an electrical conductor member having a plurality of heating elements for detachably connecting to the plurality of heating members on the cooking grate. During a self-cleaning cycle, the heating members are heated to at least 500° F. in order to burn-off and clean the encrusted and burnt food residues on the cooking grate member for sanitizing the cooking grate member.