Many of you may have an electric stove – similar to mine… and over the last few months, I have been careless in my cooking. Water / milk boils over, gets on the oven pans, and makes a huge mess.
So I battled David – who just wanted to buy new ones at $12 for 2 at Home Depot. I just can’t bring myself to spent that.. I’m just cheap. Argued with him for a while about how I’m cheap & I won’t just “buy them”, I picked up some Ammonia at Target when we had the $1 off 1 cleaning item. I think I paid $0.14 after coupon (some random amount).
Anyways – I did some reading the last few days, and looks like I’ll be trying this out – Ammonia is a great way to get the pans clean. Those very same pans that are encrusted with all kinds of crazy spills. Simply put inside of a hefty bag, pour ammonia on them (1 C or more), seal up, and wrap in another Hefty bag. Then put outside to keep the odor out of your house. Give it 1/2 days, and the Anomia should loosen up the gunk – sounds like something I’ll be trying.
Have you ever given this a shot? Or, is there another method to this madness of gunk on stove pans?
Sounds good to me, mine are gross even after scrubbing and scrubbing. I have 2 roommates that don’t give a crap about cleaning. Think I’ll give it a try, just have to find my ammonia. Thanks for the tip, always looking for easy and cheap cleaning ideas.
I think Comet will take it off also, wet down the pan, sprinkle comet, and leave it overnight. It was always kinda iffy for me cause Comet was always just a bathroom cleaner growing up, but I’ve read that about cleaning pans in a lot of different places.
I did this on my pans. It worked pretty well. They didn’t look brand new or anything, but they looked a lot better than before!
Sheryl, My mom puts a hot soapy wash cloth on top of the pan and lets it sit over night…next day it wipes clean and looks brand new…sure beats smelling amonia. Any dish soap will work too.
I made the mistake, years ago, of using the ammonia method when we had burner pans that were aluminum. Big mistake. They got clean, sort of, but all the finish was removed and they were dull dull dull. After that, stuff stuck to them worse and stained them such that they couldn’t be cleaned. Just make sure your pans are chrome. Seems like after they sat overnight, I still had to use SOS pad to clean ’em up good. The “Queen of Clean” suggests putting a layer of paper towels over the drip pan and making sure it gets saturated w/ammonia so that it’s in contact with the drip pan. Not saying it’s not worth it – I’m all for saving some bucks – but depending on how burned on the spills are, you may have to work at it. Be sure to wear rubber gloves!!!
oh oh oh….use water softener..I think I learned this from Haleys hints??..the kind you buy in the laundry detergent aisle (usually near the woolite). It’s more expensive than the one dollar ammonia…BUT WOW does a great job! You have to soak them for a few hours in it..I use warm water but, I have had great success with caked on stuff!
You know I think it’s no water…just water softener…sorry
Thats the way Ive done it for years and love it! No scrubbing works for me!