Today I learned a nifty trick for cleaning gas ranges. Range burners in particular which can be particularly difficult to clean.
For those of us who have a gas range for cooking, many of you know how difficult cleaning these monsters can be, especially commercial style ranges (which we have in our kitchen). The burner head just under the cap can get gunked up with carbon and grease, but due to its intricacy it can be a real bear to get it properly cleaned. This part doesn't need cleaning often, but they do require some periodic deep cleaning once or twice a year.
Historically I've cleaned these things using the 'Brute Strength and Ignorance' way, but today I decided to do some digging on the web and see if there was an easier way. Most of the 'hacks' I found weren't really hacks at all and you still wound up scrubbing and picking for hours. Then I stumbled across this Indian video which I could barely understand, but it did things differently. Basically, it went like this...
You mix the following ingredients:
1 cup of Coke (Coca Cola, because if you have cups of the other stuff lying around, well, you probably don't need a stove)
1 cup of Dish Soap (any old liquid dish soap will do)
2 TBSP of Baking Soda
1/2 cup water
Just soak those burner heads and caps in the solution for 30 minutes to an hour, and then lightly scrub them off with an old toothbrush, and voila', shiny like new again. Given how many hours I've spent scrubbing those dang things, having an easy solution to clean them like this was a revelation!
This would work for gunked up camp stoves too.
So, I just thought I'd pass this along.
For those of us who have a gas range for cooking, many of you know how difficult cleaning these monsters can be, especially commercial style ranges (which we have in our kitchen). The burner head just under the cap can get gunked up with carbon and grease, but due to its intricacy it can be a real bear to get it properly cleaned. This part doesn't need cleaning often, but they do require some periodic deep cleaning once or twice a year.
Historically I've cleaned these things using the 'Brute Strength and Ignorance' way, but today I decided to do some digging on the web and see if there was an easier way. Most of the 'hacks' I found weren't really hacks at all and you still wound up scrubbing and picking for hours. Then I stumbled across this Indian video which I could barely understand, but it did things differently. Basically, it went like this...
You mix the following ingredients:
1 cup of Coke (Coca Cola, because if you have cups of the other stuff lying around, well, you probably don't need a stove)
1 cup of Dish Soap (any old liquid dish soap will do)
2 TBSP of Baking Soda
1/2 cup water
Just soak those burner heads and caps in the solution for 30 minutes to an hour, and then lightly scrub them off with an old toothbrush, and voila', shiny like new again. Given how many hours I've spent scrubbing those dang things, having an easy solution to clean them like this was a revelation!
This would work for gunked up camp stoves too.
So, I just thought I'd pass this along.