Removing melted plastic from a cooker ring.

[kick3m0n]

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

[Loosehead]

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.

[Bangkok]

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.

[kick3m0n]

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

[Litchick]

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

[ShellyHall]

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.

[kick3m0n]

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

[Bangkok]

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.