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Removing melted plastic from a cooker ring.

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kick3m0n | 14:27 Thu 05th May 2005 | Home & Garden
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Through an act of sheer dumbness beyond belief, I placed a tupperware lid on top of a recently switched off cooker ring.  Hey presto....I now have a ring that has a big bright blue plastic patch on it.  Do any of you resourceful ABers have an idea how I might remove this mess and so be able to use this ring again?  It's not a coil type cooker ring, nor is it a flush electric hob,  it's one of these solid circles raised up from the cooker top.  (Good grief, still so annoyed at myself for being "D'Oh!" that I can't even remember what the ring type it called).

Might I have to get a new cooker top?  Or do these rings come as separate parts (admittedly, looks tricky to fit/replace). As it is, hubby's favourite (massive) lunch box is ruined, so he's having to make do with a smaller one (make up your own joke here !!)

Cheers folks! xx

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I did similar once. This is what I did, get an old knife and an oven glove. Turn the heat on full and open a window. Give it a while and you should be able to scrap the plastic off.
When I did this with a number of rubber bands (don't ask) I scraped with heat and finished it off with one of those weird brillo pad type things for cleaning pans.
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Thanks to you both!   If it had been possible, I'd have given you both at least FOUR stars, 3 for the advice, and at least another one for letting me know I wasn't the only one daft enough to do this.  So here are the extras....XXX

I HAVE to ask about the rubber bands.....:)

Just so you know there's another silly person out there - I had a blitz on my kitchen a few months ago and decided to clean everything.  I cleaned the eye-level grill on my cooker and then turned it on to dry it out.  Next on the list was the deep fat fryer - i removed the lid and put it on top of the cooker as all the work surfaces were covered with other items to clean.

I started to scrub the fryer and then thought "what's that horrible smell?"  You've guessed it - my deep fat fryer lid was slowly dripping through the top of the cooker onto the grill pan.  It took ages to get rid of the smell and I had to buy a new deep fat fryer.

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and some extra for you too Shelley. xxx 

Thanks all - I'm laughing about it now.

Come one, don't be shy Bangkok we're all intrigued............xx

Lots of food here comes in plastic bags, sealed with rubber bands (quite cunning, as they are firmly on put a quick tug in the right place and they are off, except I only ever manage to tighten them).  There were 5 such rubber bands on the ring from earlier when I put the ring on, and I didn't even notice when I put the pan on.

It wasn't very exciting, sorry, just seriously stupid!  Not noticing 5 rubber bands on a ring about 8 inches accross.  Had to clean the pan bottom too.

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