Cleaning the cooker

For the glass doors, Mr P swears by "Oven Pride" !

Lakeland seem to have something for every cleaning need. Do you have a store nearby? Or you could look online and/or give them a ring for advice. I hope you fine something - it seems a shame if your cooker has literally lost its shine.

You can pay people to come and clean your cooker - sounds the best idea to me! My cooker has a cobweb in between the glass doors - I choose to regard it as an interesting piece of modern art!

I use a paint scraper(the kind with a blade) to scrape anything burnt on my oven glass doors then polish with a microfiber cloth they come up like new . The scraping does no harm to the glass.

I am deeply impressed by all these housewifely skills - I was in teh back row with my bum in the air when these skills were handed out! Luckily I am very short-sighted!

Mishap I am just about to tackle my oven door.

I can't remember if I've already mentioned this, apologies if I have! A while ago I went into the kitchen to find Mr P rubbing the front of our stainless steel cooker with a piece of scrunched up tinfoil!

Apparently he had read somewhere that a good way to clean stainless steel was to use tin foil, shiny side out and moistened with a little water.

I have to say it worked a treat, he then went on to tackle the toaster, kettle and bin!

I use a company that comes and cleans the cooker for you. It looks like new when he has finished.

janthea, I had mine done last week - it looks brilliant and it will for about the next month

My Ds-i-L have people in the clean their ovens; how I would have loved that when marching out of married quarters! I don't do enough serious cooking these days to warrant it!

But, Phoenix, didn't you say that the steam cleaner works wonders on glass doors? I know someone did...

(Am I really talking about cleaning ovens? What next, I wonder!)

The cleaning man I use leaves it in a better condition than when I had it delivered new,and for top up cleaning I use Bar keepers friend available in most good supermarkets.I class my cleaning man's visit every 6 mths as a personal present to myself.

Ariadne - how often and at what temperature you wash your teatowels maybe

janthea which company do you use? I keep promising myself that I will get someone in but usually end up doing it myself - would love to hand over that job to someone else. I have a Rayburn - do they tackle those?

kitty

I use Ovenu which I think is nationwide. My man is very good and personable.

I'd be too ashamed to call in someone to clean my cooker besides that's DH's job !!

My man tells me he's seen much worse but I presume he says that to all the slobs who can't be a***d to dot it themselves.

My oven is lovely and clean inside and out! This could be because it's on two weeks old of course [thigrin

Sorry [thigrin] !!!

Sorry [thigrin] no battery left in keyboard!

And you don't do any cooking! Sorry! You can get back at me on Friday.

Hope all goes well at the hospital tomorrow

Phoenix how much do you charge for Mr P?

Yes, Galen, I would like to be next in the orderly queue after yourself for Mr. P, provided that I can afford the hourly rate (for cleaning).

I get Ovenu in once every couple of years to clean my cooker. They are worth every penny.