How To Clean A Gas Stove (grate, Burners, Pens, Etc.) With Folk Remedies (soda, Ammonia) And Not Only

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

We clean the gas stove quickly and efficiently to a shine

Cleanliness is not only a guarantee of health. Proper care of household appliances will provide them with a long service life. This is especially true of the kitchen, namely the gas stove, which helps you in cooking, which means that it often gets clogged. We will tell you how to clean a gas stove without damaging it, and what means to choose for this.

Content

• 1 Folk remedies in the fight against pollution: time-tested
• 2 Folk remedies to help you fight stove pollution
• 3 Cleaning sequence
• 4 Remove grease stains from the surface
• 5 Cleaning the stove handles
• 6 How to effectively clean the oven
• 7 Video on cleaning a gas stove

Folk remedies in the fight against pollution: time-tested

The modern chemical industry offers a lot of tools that can easily and quickly clean your stove from any contamination. But recently, housewives have been dubious about such substances. There are several reasons for this: such funds can be expensive, they are unsafe, therefore they require special storage (which becomes more relevant when there are children in the house), and it is recommended to use them with rubber gloves.

The stove can be perfectly cleaned with folk remedies.

It is important for women that such products, even with protection, negatively affect the skin of the hands, which means that you need to use creams. This adds costs to the already hefty cost of cleaning gels and powders. In addition, we all faced such a situation: the stove needs to be cleaned urgently, but the industrial tool is over. And running to the store is not an option. This is where the well-known and used means, which are probably always at hand, will come to our aid:

• laundry soap solution;
• lemon acid;
• vinegar;
• ammonia alcohol;
• baking soda;
• ammonia-anise drops.

Almost all of these tools will easily help you deal with not only dirt on the gas stove, but also clean almost all household appliances to a shine - a refrigerator, a boiler, an electric kettle, a washing machine, a juicer. They can handle any dirt, and most importantly their advantage is the possibility of safe use even with children.

Folk remedies to help you fight stove pollution

Cleaning sequence

1. First of all, disconnect the stove from the gas supply. This is necessary so that you do not accidentally turn the gas supply knob to the burner. If the stove has an electric ignition button, then the stove must be disconnected from the energy source. This way, you protect yourself from injury.
2. Now remove the grate. It should be placed in a large container (such as a tub or basin of a suitable size) and completely filled with hot soapy water. To prepare it, dissolve 72% laundry soap flakes in water (based on ¼ soap bar for 5-7 liters of water). Make sure that the grill is completely covered with mortar. Leave it on for a few hours.
3. Remove the burners (if the design of the stove provides for their disassembly) and send them to soak in a basin with a grate at the same time.
4. While the grill and cooking zones are soaking, remove food residues, crumbs and other dirt from the surface of the stove that can be easily wiped dry. Do not wet the stove for this, otherwise cleaning will be delayed. Use a hard-sided kitchen sponge or thick cloth to do this.
5. Cleaning the stove handles from dirt is perhaps the most difficult stage of work. These elements become clogged especially intensively and have many hard-to-reach places. We will describe this process in detail below.
6. If you don't have a hob, but a full-fledged gas stove with an oven, then you know how difficult it can be. We will also consider cleaning the oven in detail so that it is easier for you to choose the most convenient method.

Usually, all elements must be removed from the surface of the stove for thorough cleaning.

The stove has been disassembled, which means that the preparatory stage is over. Now we'll get to work.

Removing grease stains from the surface

The first helper in the fight against oily stains is hot water. Of course, it will not completely break down fat, especially old and dried ones, but it will be able to soften it. After that, soda is used. Spread it evenly over the surface of the stove, abundantly moistened with hot water, and leave for half an hour. The effect will intensify if you use a soapy solution.

After the stove is soaked, carefully wipe off the applied mixture with a soft sponge. Now wipe the surface with a 1: 1 solution of water and ammonia.

Use laundry soap for cleaning. Rub part of the bar and add some hot water. Mix to a paste and apply evenly to the surface. Leave it on for 15 minutes, and when the fat turns off, rinse with warm water. Wipe off any residues with a clean cloth.

A toothbrush will help you clean hard-to-reach areas

Lemon juice, vinegar, and citric acid are also effective anti-fat helpers. Apply any of these products to the entire surface of the dirt and wipe off after 15-30 minutes. Also, burnt areas or dried spots of fat will be destroyed by a solution of vinegar and ammonia.

It is much easier to deal with if there are stains on your stove from syrup, coffee or cocoa containing sugar. In this case, ordinary hot water will help you. Sugar at high temperature turns into caramel, which is difficult to clean, but easily dissolves in water in just 15-20 minutes.

We clean the handles of the stove

The handles on the gas stove, as the smallest and most frequently used items, get dirty quickly. In addition, due to the design, pollution settles in hard-to-reach places

The removable handles are the easiest to clean. To do this, just take them out and put them in a container with a cleaning agent. In a concentrated solution of laundry soap, these parts must be kept for quite a long time, depending on the degree of contamination, about 8 hours. But during this time, fat and dried food particles will completely soften and leave the surface.

Stove handles can be the hardest to clean

If you want to speed up the process, then use vinegar essence diluted with water (2 tablespoons of the substance per 1 liter of water). Remember to wear rubber household gloves! The solution should completely cover the handles. Boil them for 5-7 minutes, drain the solution and leave the saucepan with handles to cool. Don't try to chill them with cold water. When the parts are completely cool, clean them with a sponge. You can use baking soda on special occasions.

It is more difficult if the handles on the stove are not removable. In this case, you need patience, and will come to the rescue:

• toothpicks;
• cotton buds;
• Toothbrush;
• soda (preferably not baking soda, but soda ash, if the contamination is too strong);
• ammonia.

First, put some baking soda on a damp sponge and wipe the pens thoroughly. After that, tackle hard-to-reach gaps. It is better to use ammonia here. Dilute it in water in a 1: 1 ratio and apply to the gaps with a cotton swab, rubbing well. After 10 minutes, dissolved dirt can be easily wiped off with a damp cloth or sponge. Remove the remains with a toothpick.

How to clean the oven effectively

Whatever the ad tells us, caustic chemicals aren't the best way to clean your oven. In addition, we have proven folk methods that are much cheaper and safer.

1. Dry the oven well with a paper towel. Wet the inner walls with soapy water and leave for 15-20 minutes to soak the fat a little. After that, pour a weakly concentrated soap solution into a baking sheet and place it in the oven. Set the temperature to 120 degrees and leave the oven with the door tightly closed for 30 minutes. All impurities will melt and dissolve in the hot steam. After that, the oven must be thoroughly wiped with a soft cloth and rinsed with clean water.
2. Soak baking soda or citric acid in water and apply this product to the damp inside of the oven. Leave it on for 15-25 minutes, depending on the degree of soiling, then dry thoroughly with a paper towel and rinse with water.
3. If the contamination is insignificant, then an aqueous solution of vinegar in a 1: 1 ratio will cope with them. Moisten the inner walls with it liberally, turn on the oven at 50 degrees and leave for 15 minutes. Then rinse off any dirt with clean water.
4. Such a folk remedy will help to remove more serious pollution. Apply the vinegar solution in the same proportion to the walls of the oven and sprinkle with baking soda. During the reaction of extinguishing soda with vinegar, fat and dried food debris will lag behind the surface. Citric acid can be used in place of vinegar to avoid pungent odors.
5. Ammonia also copes well with dirt. Rub it liberally on the inside of the oven, close the door and leave for 10 hours, for example overnight. In the morning, rinse the oven thoroughly with clean water so that the smell of ammonia completely disappears.
6. Pour 200 ml of ammonia into a baking sheet and top up with water. Put in the oven for half an hour. All dirt can be easily wiped off with a sponge and soapy water.
7. Sprinkle a thick layer of salt over the inside of the oven and let it heat at 100 degrees for 30 minutes. Allow the oven to cool down, sweep out the salt with residual dirt and rinse the surfaces with cold water.
8. Make a simple yet highly effective paste: Mix equal parts of salt, baking soda and water. Apply the product to the surface that is dirty and let it sit for 10 hours. Then rinse off the residue with cold water.

Even stubborn dirt in the oven can be washed with improvised means

Any of these tools will help you clean not only the oven, but also the entire gas stove.

Gas stove cleaning video

As you can see, for your stove to shine clean, you don't have to use expensive chemicals. If you are familiar with any other popular methods, share them in the comments. Comfort for your home!