Stove top / oven burner cleaning products

[Blimeygirl 30]

How does one get these oven hobs clean? What products do you use?

 

[Showem 868]

God, they look clean to me! Lots cleaner than ours are.

[Blimeygirl 30]

I am just concerned about getting our apartment rental deposit back. The hob is very clean. But the actual burners are a bit mucky with whatever has spilled over during cooking etc. They still look pretty decent. Is this then considered normal wear and tear of these things?

[kitkat64 461]

I don't think you need to worry about your deposit. I already cleaned mine (in preparation for our move this weekend) and they still don't look that good! Guess I'll run home and clean them again!

[Showem 868]

Two things you can try. One, get baking soda and make it into a paste with water. slop it on the burners and turn them up to high heat for a bit. Once they cool off, scrub them again and see how they look. Two, I believe I have seen a funny little bottle that claimed to make the elements blacker. Sort of like the stuff to make the stuff between the tiles look whiter - it doesn't really clean it, but makes it look better. Someone like Katrina might have more info on that than I do.

[JoolyBooly 0]

The things you need are special blackening pads, you heat up the burners on speed 1 (60 degrees).

 

Then you rub this pad on them in circular motion, to allow for the threading. It makes them go all black and shiny.

 

No idea what they're called, but I got them in Praktika and they come in a little box of three pads, there's a picture of someone using them on the front.

[Blimeygirl 30]

Hmmm, I have baking soda. Will give it a go.

 

We did buy some black stuff. Little tube-y bottle thing. And it did make them look better. But do it just as you leave because to cook after using it... well, stinky big mistake. And they end up looking just the same again once the stuff has burned off.

[JoolyBooly 0]

the pad i have doesn't smell and lasts longer, but I would still do it just as you're leaving as it's nice and shiny when fresh

[Keydeck 9,248]

"Cillit Bang" is a pretty good oven cleaner if you want to try to do it yourself. You can get it in any supermarket or the likes of DM and Schlecker.

[flummox 1]

We have a handle-type scraper with a very sharp old-fashioned razor blade inside. Really good, and avoids all the chemicals.

[bhupeshis 4]

...but won't that leave scratches on the hob?

[UrbanAngel 445]

We have one too, and if you do it carefully it doesn't leave scratches. There is also special hob-cleaning fluid. Go to a DM or Schlecker or somewhere and go look at the chemicals. Look for the bottle with a picture of a hob on it.

[mini 2]

my hub is white and in order to keep it clean, just days after i came here, i scrubbed them vigorously and now they've got some scratches.

 

another thing is that, one day i use it, it gets browned, especially Indian food does it . i tried using the over cleaning spray from Rossman and that woks fine for me. and for the burner part of it, i got one from Schlecker a tube kinda thing which can blacken and thats ok too.

 

still, any suggestions for the scratches?? :(

[mlovett 8,681]

Is it possible to buy some kind of wall protector for behind the burners? If so, at what type of shop? In the US I always had tile behind (easy clean up), here it's wall. As I cook with a lot of olive oil, there is a lot of splatter. I can't always be bothered with covering my pans with one of those splatter shields!

[PCDonkey 998]

Evening TT

 

Long time, no posts as I am knocked up again (has she worked out what's causing it yet?!!)

Regurgitating this fairly old thread as I want to know whether there is a specialist national/franchised

professional oven cleaning company in Germany?

 

There are several in the UK - they come to your house with cleaning products presumably for professional/catering kitchens, blast your oven for two hours and it comes up like new. Costs about sixty quid.

 

Does such a company exist here?

 

Also is there a recognised equivalent here of a company like Merry Maids or a named franchised firm that does deep cleaning/bereavement cleaning/moving house cleaning? I am not moving house, nor has anyone died (apart from a tiny bit of my soul) but the possibility of a deep clean, windows, skirting boards, the full works would be nice if it is not extortionate here.

 

Thanks in advance x

[pdc 0]

Please suggest a product that would make the elements on a Ceranfeld (ceramic/glass stove top) black and shiny (part of moving out process). The ones we mostly use have grey patches that cannot be removed using any cleaning product/baking soda etc.

[El Jeffo 42,135]

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The second one is called a "Schaber".

 

If that doesn't clean it, it's indelible. But if the spots aren't too large, you can still argue that it's normal wear and tear, which you don't have to compensate.

[pdc 0]

Thanks but I have used both. Its not something that could be scraped off. I think the black coating needs to be restored which was perhaps removed due to rubbing of utensils on the element while cooking and/or using aluminium utensils. It is only on the heating elements. In the previous posts someone suggested using some kind of black pads???

[topcat 1 373]

Mr. Muscle Cera-fix does a great job of removing those grey patches from your ceramic hob

 

http://www.mrmuscleclean.com/de-de/products/kitchen/mr-muscle-cera-fix

 

It is sometimes hard to get a hold of but just type "mr muscle cera-fix de" into google and you will be able to get it online.

 

As for the guy looking for the really thorough clean (for his house not himself), a mate of mine had a fire in his apartment a while back and a fire damage company came and cleaned up the whole place. Now my mate would not be the sort who does a lot of cleaning and although the bathroom and kitchen were not damaged, they had not been cleaned properly in about five years. The fire damage company cleaned them both up and they really look like new, and I can tell you the bathroom used to be so bad that I used to always hold on until I got home. So anyone looking that sort of service should check out fire damage companies or ask their house insurer for a company that they can refer. I am pretty sure it is not cheap though.

[pdc 0]

Thanks for the suggestion.