Oven and kettle cleaning

janb5

Hi

I have just joined and thought I could pass on two tips. If you have already got them, please delete them!

The first is an easy and cheap way to clean your kettle. Simply fill it with malt vinegar that you are going to reserve for this job. DO NOT BOIL! Best to do this overnight. In the morning pour the vinegar back in the bottles for reuse for this job and rinse out kettle. It will be beautifully clear! I have found I can reuse this vinegar about 7 times

The second tip is for cleaning ovens- a horrible job! Put all your oven trays in a double bin bag(i.e. one black bag in another one for extra strength. Wear kitchen gloves. Pout in one cup of ammonia, averting your eyes. Tie up bag and leave the bag in the garden overnight(not on dustbin day!)

Next mornng : you will find that all the gunge`sloughs` off with a garden hose. Painless and cheap!

Happy cleaning

Jan :j :j :j

Queenie

:hello: :j Welcome to MSE and Old Style janb5 :j :hello:


Thank you for the tips - the kettle one I can speak from experience ... rinse WELL!!! :rotfl:


I tend not to use ammonia ... have you tried washing soda crystals as a de-greaser/cleaner? It's my "cure all" for burnt-on-crusty-hard-to-shift-gungy jobs


Looking forward to getting to know you around the forums


:wave: TTFN :wave:

kiwichick

Ooopppsss

Wish I'd read this thread before yesterdays attempt at descaling my kettle. I DID let it boil - cue vinegar all over my kitchen worktop and floor. The house still smells!!!!!

nearlyrich

We don't have hard water so the kettle one isn't needed here but I am going to give the oven tray tip a go, might wait till the water won't freeze when it comes out of the hosepipe:xmassign:

janb5

Thanks for the welcome Queenie - always appreciated!

I know ammonia is pretty strong but it is very effective for this. The fact that all the shelves are contained within a knotted bag makes it work quite painlessly.

I think oven cleaning ranks amongst the most hated cleaning job!

Jan

Mado

My mum swear by ammonia. However I'm always a bit concerned as it is very toxic neat and should be handled very carefully!

janb5

I agree Mada - but it is easily achieved by wearing household gloves- always useful when doing jobs and averting your eyes when emptying the bag.

All of us have used this method for ages so I can say it DOES work!

Jan

Tim_L

Biological washing powder cleans oven inside things extraordinarily effectively, just soak overnight and repeat until spotless. Much less smelly than ammonia.

Queenie

Tim_L - yes, Bio WP is good too - but you will find that washing soda crystals is as effective as Bio WP and it works out cheaper too ... not to mention the other uses for WSC ( which you can find listed here: http://www.dripak.co.uk/ )

Tim_L

I'm still using various free packs of bio powder from various freebies. You can also buy it very cheaply indeed at Asda in the value brand.

I agree about the many uses of washing soda though.

maryb

I found that the ammonia trick works even better on a hot sunny day when the black plastic sack retains the heat. But even a sunny winters day helps. I brought an old enamelled grill pan back from the dead with that when it was so thickly coated with burnt on fat you would not have thought it possible ever to get clean and it came out literally like new with just a rinse afterwards. However I find it doesn't seem to work so well with the oven racks - don't know why