They have special cleaner that works okay, I guess. I was still scrubbing my hardest even with the cleaner. And it cost $5 for a tiny bottle!! I am just not okay with that. My husband tried a very entertaining method. He turned all the burners on high, poured water on the entire stove, and used a metal spatula to scrap the burn stuff off while it was still hot. Not a bad approach but not something I want to do every other day or so.
So I thought, "What would Grandma do?"
Of course! Baking Soda!!
So to test it I waited until it got pretty ugly (doesn't take long when you are teaching a 13 year old boy to cook) and tried it out. I poured a bunch on the stove, got a scratchy sponge and scrubbed. It took seconds!! My husband was so impressed at the minimal effort I was putting into scrubbing that he took the sponge to try it out himself. To which I had no objections. When a man volunteers to clean, don't question it.
Why waste the money? Baking soda is pennies per ounce. And it is so useful for so many things. The same night I cleaned the stove, I noticed our white sink was not so white any more. I hate the smell of bleach so I tried baking soda. I looks new! I also use baking soda to clean our toilets, to treat grease stains in our laundry, and to deodorize tennis shoes. The list of uses is endless! You can save so much on different cleaners. And even though we don't have young children in our house just yet, I love that we don't have to keep so many chemicals around.
What do you use baking soda for?
2 comments:
Thank you for the awesome tip to clean my glass stovetop! I also didn't want to spend money on another "cleaner"....but wasn't sure what's safe to use. I also will never buy a glasstop stove....For all the reasons you mentioned!
Just baking soda and water?
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