Cleaning the cooker to sell

rosie383

We are moving and need to get an electric cooker and get rid of our gas cooker. I can get the hob cleaned okay, inside is okay.

How do I do the black things that the pots sit on? I can't for the life of me thing what they are called!!

Also down the sides of the cooker. It always gets grimy and greasy. I have tried stardrops, brillo pads, Astonish, but I would like it to be cleaner than I can get it as I want to sell it and get even a wee bit to put towards an electric one.

pinkladyvenus

Try soda crystals for the grease

GreyQueen

pinkladyvenus wrote: »

Try soda crystals for the grease

That'd be my recommendation, too. Glove up and use a strong solution of soda crystals in very very hot water. The pan supports can be soaked in this stuff as well. You may have to do this more than once.

Be sure to rinse well or it can leave a whitish residue when dry. Good luck!

sillysid

try sugar soap, scourer and a scraper.

JP08

Might sound odd on a Money Saving forum, but your best bet might be to get one of those oven cleaning guys in. The stuff they have access to just has more grunt than the supermarket gunks. Will obviously depend on the condition and cost of what is being sold.

When we did that to get shot of the old cooker last year the piccies of pristine hobs and innards paid dividends - it was only about 3yrs old, but being sold as the kitchen was being refitted with built-in. I reckon we got most of the (what seemed like an expensive) £70 back, as bidding went well over expectation, and didn't have to spend hours (the guy that came round spent 3 hrs on the thing, gods alone knows how long it would have taken us to reach the same standard) scrubbing and breathing in chemical fumes.

ljonski

Surely if you lash out £70 on cleaning it and get say £65 for it you have lost £5.
Sell for £50 and you have made £50 !

JP08

Well, yes. As I said, it depends on what you are selling and for how much.

If the thing ebays for £250 because it is (from the photos) utterly spotless, then it can be money well spent. It may have still gone for £200 without the pro clean, but that £20 is more than well worth the three or four hours of not inhaling Mr Muscle fumes anyhow.

(Aside - sell for £50 clean, £30 dirty, that's a crap hourly rate for a filthy job)

rosie383

JP08 wrote: »

Well, yes. As I said, it depends on what you are selling and for how much.

If the thing ebays for £250 because it is (from the photos) utterly spotless, then it can be money well spent. It may have still gone for £200 without the pro clean, but that £20 is more than well worth the three or four hours of not inhaling Mr Muscle fumes anyhow.

(Aside - sell for £50 clean, £30 dirty, that's a crap hourly rate for a filthy job)

No that is a very good point! I intend to get it clean enough that I'm not embarrassed when it is picked up! That'll do me rightly. Grrrr forgot to get washing soda in town and now I'm home! Ah well, the packing awaits. I will get to the cooker tomorrow. Mind you, not sure if I will be selling it for a few weeks so is it worth cleaning now and then later?

TiredTrophy

Steam cleaner? maybe a neighbour can lend one? I went over my cooker several times once I had used 'chemicals' and it was nice and shiny with no smell when we sold the house.
Mostly stardrops and sugar soap as mentioned.

Eenymeeny

WD40 is great for removing grease from tops of cupboards, extractor fans etc. I haven't tried it on thick grease but as a final clean up it would give it a lovely shine.

Spendless

The best oven cleaner I have ever used is from Lakeland. I've tried others but haven't found anything else as good.

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/4972/Oven-Mate-Cleaning-Gel