Badly burnt-on and disgustingly dirty cooker

Mellika

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for reading.

Right. I need HELP. We're moving into a new house and the cooker is absolutely disgusting. It has months of burnt-on food. For some reason the inside of the oven is relatively OK, but around the hobs... I just don't know what to do about it.

So I'm posting in here to ask for your best advice. Cleaning recipes and techniques are all welcome. I think I'll probably have to use one after the other until it's finally clean!!!

I have... (rummages through cleaning box):

Stardrops
White vinegar
Bicarbonate of Soda
Borax
Soda Crystals

As well as an army of scourers, toothbrushes, etc etc etc.

PLEASE HELP ! I have read through the cleaning collection and tried a couple of things but it's still dirty!

gin

bio washing powder?

bigmuffins

Hi
Don't know what exactly you have burn't on but I would sprinkle on some washing powder dry and then pour on a little hot water to dampen it, leave to soak for 30 mins to about an hour or so. Then use a sponge scourer to scrub any stubborn bits and then wipe off with a cloth or paper kitchen towel. If any bits remain, just scrub with some dry washing powder. I then use a damp cloth to wipe clean and remove any soapy residues. This usually works for me - no matter what has burn't on! In fact just pouring on a little warm water dissolves most residue I find! I mean just a little - something like a 1/4 cup full, not a lot! Have done this in student houses and has been fine.
HTH
Cheers

comping_cat

I think i would start with the bicab and vinegar - sprinkle over the bicarb, then add the vinegar, once it has finished 'fizzing' up, wipe off. Hopefully that would get most of it off first time, i would then use the stardrops. I use mine diluted (about one part stardrops to 5 parts water). I would spray it on, then leave for about 10 minutes, then wipe off with a damp cloth.

Good luck with it!!!

Mellika

Thanks girls.

I've no idea what's been burnt. Don't want to think about what these people have been doing with that cooker...

I didn't know you could use washing powder like that. Thanks!

Mellika

*BUMP* Hoping someone else will see this and give more advice?

Mrs_Boo_Boo

I know this is not a cheap option, as suggested by the others, but I totally swear by oven-mate from Lakeland Limited. You paint it on and leave it until the clear liquid turns brown and wash it off in cold water. Sometimes you need to apply it several times but everything comes up clean and there's no smell either. I used it to clean up an oven used by previous tennants and the new tennant who'd viewed the property before I'd used it thought I'd bought a new cooker. My mum also uses it for the cooker in her holiday let which sometimes has 'boiled tar' welded to it!
Good luck

moo2moo

Remove anything thats removable and soak overnight in biological washing powder. Quick scrub with a brillo pad and it comes up great.

Beware using Oven Mate or vinegar if its a brushed stainless steel finish, they damage the surface.

I'd start with lots of elbow grease, hot water and Cif cream. It may not be as bad as it looks.

Angelraesunshine

moo2moo wrote: »

Remove anything thats removable and soak overnight in biological washing powder. Quick scrub with a brillo pad and it comes up great.

i had to sell my old cooker a few weeks back and to be honest knowing i was getting new cooker i had left it a bit ( ok so i was never great at cleaning it all th time) i did the above and used my BBQ brush and scraper to clean off worked great. for the hob i poured dry bio washing powder around the burnt on stuff around each burner carefully wet it all and left it over night before i went to bed i dampened it again scrubbed around it with a blunt rounded knife ( was a kids cutlery knife) then pushed it all back on to the burnt bits and made sure still wet to make sure not to dry out over night. about 90% came off and it sold straight away so it much of been clean.

foreign_correspondent

I think the white stardrops is pretty good for this sort of stuff.

Do not mix with bleach though as it contains ammonia - and chlorine and ammonia mixed together produces mustard gas if I remember correctly!:eek:
:rotfl:

pigpen

nothing shifts it.. apart from.. ovenmate.. mine needed 3 goings over last week as it was in a particularly grotty state... I pasted the ovenmate on.. left it 2 hours.. then scraped off what I could with the cheese slice.. and went over it again.. and again..

Looks beautiful now though.. well worth the effort!!

nothing else shifted it.. I tried.. wash powder, stardrops, flash, sugar soap..