You know that brown burnt on residue that plagues cookware? The
bottoms of pans, the surfaces of oven ware? It's been my experience
it's from burnt on veggie oils, not animal fats. Anyway, anyone have
a way to remove this crap from aluminum surfaces without scrubbing? I
use oven cleaner for stainless and enamel, which knocks it right off.
But, alum seems to surrendure this crap with nothing short of a belt
sander or some other approach that requires sacrifice of precious fat
cells and two layers of your pan.

nb

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:40:20 -0600, notbob wrote:

You know that brown burnt on residue that plagues cookware? The
bottoms of pans, the surfaces of oven ware? It's been my experience
it's from burnt on veggie oils, not animal fats. Anyway, anyone have
a way to remove this crap from aluminum surfaces without scrubbing? I
use oven cleaner for stainless and enamel, which knocks it right off.
But, alum seems to surrendure this crap with nothing short of a belt
sander or some other approach that requires sacrifice of precious fat
cells and two layers of your pan.


Dawn Power Dissolver? But if the film has polymerized past sticky, I
doubt that anything other than a razor blade will touch it.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Magic Eraser worked for me.

Jessica

"notbob" wrote in message
...
You know that brown burnt on residue that plagues cookware? The
bottoms of pans, the surfaces of oven ware? It's been my experience
it's from burnt on veggie oils, not animal fats. Anyway, anyone have
a way to remove this crap from aluminum surfaces without scrubbing? I
use oven cleaner for stainless and enamel, which knocks it right off.
But, alum seems to surrendure this crap with nothing short of a belt
sander or some other approach that requires sacrifice of precious fat
cells and two layers of your pan.

nb

I happened to hear a TV cookware purveyor respond to that query. She said
you need to get to it right away, but to rub it with a damp cloth with a
dollop of liquid dishwasher detergent. I've never tried it, just put it in
the mental file drawer.
Janet

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:49:56 GMT, (Curly
Sue) wrote:

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:40:20 -0600, notbob wrote:

You know that brown burnt on residue that plagues cookware? The
bottoms of pans, the surfaces of oven ware? It's been my experience
it's from burnt on veggie oils, not animal fats. Anyway, anyone have
a way to remove this crap from aluminum surfaces without scrubbing? I
use oven cleaner for stainless and enamel, which knocks it right off.
But, alum seems to surrendure this crap with nothing short of a belt
sander or some other approach that requires sacrifice of precious fat
cells and two layers of your pan.


Dawn Power Dissolver? But if the film has polymerized past sticky, I
doubt that anything other than a razor blade will touch it.

My first thought when I read the header was a late night cable film
listing.

However, I have had limited success soaking the afflicted pan
overnight in water with a lot of detergent. But like the Curly One
said, after it hardens enough, you gotta scrape.


modom

"notbob" wrote in message
...
You know that brown burnt on residue that plagues cookware? The
bottoms of pans, the surfaces of oven ware? It's been my experience
it's from burnt on veggie oils, not animal fats. Anyway, anyone have
a way to remove this crap from aluminum surfaces without scrubbing? I
use oven cleaner for stainless and enamel, which knocks it right off.
But, alum seems to surrendure this crap with nothing short of a belt
sander or some other approach that requires sacrifice of precious fat
cells and two layers of your pan.

nb

You might try Zippo fluid or similar solvent. AV&P (think it stands for
artist varnish and paint or sumink) make a good naphtha that should do it.
Failing that, cellulose thinners perhaps.



Shaun aRe

"Jessica V." wrote

Magic Eraser worked for me.

Aren't they wonderful? I don't know how they work, but
they do on many applications.

nancy

Janet Bostwick wrote:
I happened to hear a TV cookware purveyor respond to that query. She said
you need to get to it right away, but to rub it with a damp cloth with a
dollop of liquid dishwasher detergent. I've never tried it, just put it in
the mental file drawer.

Don't know about aluminium, but oven glassware tends to get covered in baked
on gick. My father used to use paint stripper [Nitromors for UK-ers] on all
our heavy duty glassware a couple of times a year to get them gleaming
again. I must get some, it'll probably be the solution for cleaning my glass
oven door.

Sue
Portsmouth, UK
--
pen-drake location ntl-world-.-com minus hyphens.

"= . . = (EastneyEnder)"
wrote in message
eddie.starr...
Don't know about aluminium, but oven glassware tends to get covered in
baked
on gick. My father used to use paint stripper [Nitromors for UK-ers]
on all
our heavy duty glassware a couple of times a year to get them gleaming
again. I must get some, it'll probably be the solution for cleaning my
glass
oven door.

Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves the
grease and burned on bits

Ophelia wrote:
Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves the
grease and burned on bits

I did borrow one and had a go with it, sadly it's one of those doors with
two glass panels and you can't get in between them, so maybe the Nitromors
might be the option after all....

Sue
Portsmouth, UK
--
pen-drake location ntl-world-.-com minus hyphens.

"EastneyEnder" wrote in
message eddie.starr...
Ophelia wrote:
Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves
the
grease and burned on bits

I did borrow one and had a go with it, sadly it's one of those doors
with
two glass panels and you can't get in between them, so maybe the
Nitromors
might be the option after all....

Yes, as is mine.. the better half takes them apart for me and I give
them a wash

Ophelia wrote:

"= . . = (EastneyEnder)"
wrote in message
eddie.starr...

Don't know about aluminium, but oven glassware tends to get covered in
baked
on gick. My father used to use paint stripper [Nitromors for UK-ers]
on all
our heavy duty glassware a couple of times a year to get them gleaming
again. I must get some, it'll probably be the solution for cleaning my
glass
oven door.


Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves the
grease and burned on bits


Oh yes, I will second the steam cleaner. It is really a useful
appliance to have for kitchen clean-ups!

Sue

Are you sure ? I thought I couldn't on our Creda but then looked more
closely and found that there were screws I hadn't seen before

Steve
50kms NW of Lyon


EastneyEnder wrote:
Ophelia wrote:

Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves the
grease and burned on bits


I did borrow one and had a go with it, sadly it's one of those doors with
two glass panels and you can't get in between them, so maybe the Nitromors
might be the option after all....

Sue
Portsmouth, UK

Steve Y wrote:
Are you sure ? I thought I couldn't on our Creda but then looked more
closely and found that there were screws I hadn't seen before

I did borrow one and had a go with it, sadly it's one of those doors with
two glass panels and you can't get in between them, so maybe the Nitromors
might be the option after all....

I daren't!

In a previous rented flat I tried to dismantle the oven door to clean it,
and one of the glass sheets shattered like a windscreen - glass flew
everywhere - missing my face by millimetres.

Not only that but I couldn't afford to replace the oven door and had a crap
landlord, so had to do without an oven for 6 months.... :-(

Sue
Portsmouth, UK
--
pen-drake location ntl-world-.-com minus hyphens.

Mine does too!

O

"Steve Y" wrote in message
...
Sue

Are you sure ? I thought I couldn't on our Creda but then looked more
closely and found that there were screws I hadn't seen before

Steve
50kms NW of Lyon


EastneyEnder wrote:
Ophelia wrote:

Sue, I have a steam cleaner and it gets my oven door cleaned up very
well. In fact I did mine only yesterday. The steam just disolves
the
grease and burned on bits


I did borrow one and had a go with it, sadly it's one of those doors
with
two glass panels and you can't get in between them, so maybe the
Nitromors
might be the option after all....

Sue
Portsmouth, UK