| Two things: One, remove. Two, cover.
For removing I tend to use a little elbow grease combined with lysol/etc. to kill the funk and remove it bodily. That is the first order of business. Whatever can be removed/scrubbed should be done first. Pull the knobs, wash/rinse/dry, and get behind 'em as well. Wipe down the cord, vinyl covered parts, etc. You might even get away with spraying the grill cloth with the lysol to kill the organism.
Then, cover: The outsides should come scrubbibly clean, but the inside may be another matter, and in that case you can try cover: I've had luck masking off critical areas and hitting things with a little spray paint [KILZ works best IMHO] as wood, particle board, Masonite etc tend to absorb odor causing things and re-emit them. KILZ will even suppress smoke odors.
One thing that will NOT work is anything ozone related...ozone machines, spray etc will give a temporary relief but the smell WILL come back! Car lots use it in order to move a vehicle, but a few days later, after the three day cooling off period expires, the funk comes back....
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