Dirty cooker door

[Filbert]

My cooker door is rather dirty. Its mainly grease (among other things). I've tried all sorts to try and clean it, but the stains won't budge. How can I have a nice gleaming glass door again. Thanks.

[jampot]

Well Filbert the best way i have found is use Mr Muscle, leave it soak in for 20 mins, then here's the dangerous bit, use a stanley blade and scrape it off.You obviously take the blade out of the holder but please take care and use good pair of gloves, it worked for me.

[dmsjps]

You can also buy glass cleaning gadgets which are a stanley blade in a holder, so that you won't cut yourself if you slip (I'm terrible with knives and anything sharp, so I had one of those). If you ask your oven manufacturer, they should point you in the right direction, or probably anywhere that deals with glass, because they're just general glass cleaners, or even B&Q might have them. You have to hold them at an angle so that you don't scratch the glass, that's all.

 

I used to clean my glass oven door by spraying it with Fairy Power Spray, leave it for 10-20 minutes, then use my glass scraper to get the worst off, reapply the Fairy Power Spray and after leaving it for another 10 minutes, get the residue off with a plastic scourer (the ones that are sponge on one side and then fine plastic/nylon on the other side, not a metal one). Afterwards rinse off with a soft cloth and then buff with a dry cloth. It came up lovely every time and I didn't do it very often because I HATE cleaning ovens! Before Fairy Power Spray came on the scene I used to have to use Cif (or equivalent) and it never worked quite as well.

 

Hope it works for you too.

[fanacapan]

Hi If you have an Amway distributor near you try their there Oven Cleaner works for me and has done for 20 years. No scraping and very little scrubbing. Let me know if have difficulty finding it.

[woofgang]

you can get a tool in B and Q for scraping dried paint off windows which is excellent for scraping crud off oven doors made of glass...and way safer than the Stanley blade trick

[Clanad]

I've had excellent, rather easy results using a product available at our DIY store made for cleaning the inside glass of our fireplace doors.  It sprays on, leave it sit, wipe off and do it again.  Sorry, can't think of the brand name, but there should be an equivalent product in the UK...

[Filbert]

Thanks everyone. I'm getting going this weekend.