How do you get stains off a ceramic hob?

sugarmuffin

Can anyone please help? I have a brand new electric hob and there are cooking oil stains that I CANNOT shift!!! I've tried oven cleaner, brillo pads, wire wool scourers, baby oil, Hob Brite - you name if I've tried it! Any ideas please?????? Thanks!

theloft

sugarmuffin wrote: »

Can anyone please help? I have a brand new electric hob and there are cooking oil stains that I CANNOT shift!!! I've tried oven cleaner, brillo pads, wire wool scourers, baby oil, Hob Brite - you name if I've tried it! Any ideas please?????? Thanks!

If Hob Brite won't shift it, the only other product I know of is Stain Devils Oil & Cooking Fat. Or how about your household insurance, if you have accidental damage cover ???

sugarmuffin

theloft wrote: »

If Hob Brite won't shift it, the only other product I know of is Stain Devils Oil & Cooking Fat. Or how about your household insurance, if you have accidental damage cover ???

Great! Will try the Stain Devils first ... and what a good idea about the insurance, I nevr would have thought of that! Thank you!

munkypuzzel

With my ceramic hob came a 'scraper' which is just a stanly knife blade mounted in a hand tool. This removes the most stubborn burnt on stains. I now use a stanley knife blade as the orignial has blunted, just scrape at the appropriate angle..

jrrowleyws

Is home insurance really going to pay out for a "stain" on a hob???

Doozergirl

munkypuzzel wrote: »

With my ceramic hob came a 'scraper' which is just a stanly knife blade mounted in a hand tool. This removes the most stubborn burnt on stains. I now use a stanley knife blade as the orignial has blunted, just scrape at the appropriate angle..

Great idea! I have one of those stubborn marks on my glass hob and that will be perfect!

You'll find those scrapers in any DIY store near the paintbrushes etc. as they sell them for you to scrape excess paint off window glass.

Edinburghlass_2

Make sure the base of your pans are super clean as it was from my pans that I got marks on my hob

theloft

munkypuzzel wrote: »

With my ceramic hob came a 'scraper' which is just a stanly knife blade mounted in a hand tool. This removes the most stubborn burnt on stains. I now use a stanley knife blade as the orignial has blunted, just scrape at the appropriate angle..

I have read that you can damage the surface with a metal scraper, and it advised using a sharp plastic one!!

theloft

jrrowleyws wrote: »

Is home insurance really going to pay out for a "stain" on a hob???

Maybe not, but if you have accidental damage cover, why not give it a try ?

sugarmuffin

Thanks everyone! I'm going to try a scraper and the Stain Devils.... yes, it was oil on the base of my chip pan that caused the stain in the first place grrrrrrr !

barkingmad_3

theloft wrote: »

Maybe not, but if you have accidental damage cover, why not give it a try ?

... and push all our premiums up :mad: