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> I picked up a used glass pot lid, the kind with a metal band around
> the edge. The glass has cooked-on grease on both sides of the glass
> and I can't get this slightly-sticky-in-places residue off. What's a
> good way to get the glass on both sides clean and free of that
> cooked-on grease/fat?
Spray oven cleaner or old fashioned lye. Unless the metal is aluminum,
then use a non-lye oven cleaner, such as one using ethanolamine.
Soak in ammonia.
Hello Stan:
The cooked-on 'varnish' (that is more or less what it is) is awfully
hard to dissolve off. As others mentioned, oven cleaner may work.
I've had some luck cleaning cruddy glass---such as the window of a
toaster oven---- with (a) pumice-containing orange hand cleaner and a
sponge, vigorous rubbing; or (b) steel wool soap pads. Both are fairly
aggressive so I don't use them often, but there seems to be little or
no scratching from occasional use.
Regards -- Terry
Try Bon Ami. It won't scratch the glass and will scrape off the crud.
Dave M.
Try 50% white vinigar & 50% cream of tarter, and scrub with a green pad.
-zero
I just had a similar experience cleaning a glass pie plate.
Use my stainless steel scrubby and it worked a treat. They last
practically forever as well.
I've also found that the green scrubbies (scotch-bright) loose their
tooth with time... I'm always amazed at the comparison when i switch
to a new one.
--
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Soak in water with a capful of fabric softener.
I clean almost everything with fabric softener.
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Mrs. Clean
Make a hot solution of gel-auto dishwasher detergent and water and find a
glass or plastic tub big enough for your lid,and soak the lid in the
solution for a couple of hours. If you can keep it hot or warm the whole
time,that's better.
If the metal band is stainless steel and not aluminum,just use Easy-OFF
oven cleaner,as directed on the label.
--
Jim Yanik
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at
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>Stan wrote:
>> I picked up a used glass pot lid, the kind with a metal band around the
>> edge. The glass has cooked-on grease on both sides of the glass and I can't
>> get this slightly-sticky-in-places residue off. What's a good way to get
>> the glass on both sides clean and free of that cooked-on grease/fat?
>
Here's what worked for me twice:
Use some gel-type paint remover like Kleen-Strip on it. I burned some
caramel in a saucepan some time ago and nothing was working on it. I covered
the bottom of the pot with the remover and stirred, picked and scraped at it
with a popsicle stick once a day for a week and this removed the charred mess.
My wife recently burned some corn in the pot (same pot, too!) last week and
again, this method worked to perfection.
I got the idea from a product that Sunbeam marketed in their repair shops
called Sunbeam Frying Pan Cleaner. I bought some and discovered it was actually
paint remover - one of the ingredients is methylene chloride. I wouldn't try
this stuff on aluminum though, since it tends to turn it black.
> I picked up a used glass pot lid, the kind with a metal band around
You're getting an awful lot of "try this" responses! COuld probably buy a
couple of complete sets for the price of the various things suggested if
you don't have them hanging around.
What the hell. Here's a couple of more.
Greased Lightning with a plastic scour pad.
Carburator cleaner.
Cover the pot lid with a baking soda paste. The next day wash it. If
the gunk is still there, take it outside and spray on some oven
cleaner, wait 10 minutes, rinse, repeat if needed. Use caution.
Bury it in the yard for a month. That will de-grease
almost anything.
Thanks for all the tips. I used Dave M's method--> the Bon Ami. It worked
great: no fumes, no nasty chemicals, no scratches on the glass, and this
cleaning task only took ~ 2 minutes.
Stan