I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6 years of usage, it was bad.
This is the absolute proper tool for this job.
That said, everyone should know the different ways of cleaning the things.
Bar keepers Friend, for the equivalent oxalic acid/ddbsa cleaner in your area will remove dark carbon from most surfaces, especially when used with a magic eraser/melamine sponge
If you have a pot or a pan or something movable that is very burnt on, soaking it in an extremely dangerous solution of potassium hydroxide (lye) well absolutely remove all the organics. You just have to be sure to wear gloves and splash protection because it will blind you in a hot second.
Soaking rusty items in vinegar for a prolonged period of time will remove the rust, but you’ll have to treat it pretty quickly to keep the rusr from coming back.
Literally blind forever?
I knew lye was dangerous but that sounds EXTREMELY dangerous.
AND it reacts with aluminum to create hydrogen!
Yeah that actually is another good point to it if you use it on aluminum it will erode the surface. If my quarter sheet pans get out of control I’ll do it to them a couple of times and sand them back down before I recycle them.
yes, don’t fuck around with corrosive chemicals. Strong acids or bases will destroy tissues with ease, especially if they’re not protected by skin (which also gets dissolved but more slowly)
Treat it with what? An oil to protect the surface?
A super thin layer of food safe oil. Apply it, Buff it back off as much as possible than wash the pan.
If it’s cast iron you can just re-season it.
just re-season it.
One does not “simply re-season.” Tbf it’s a pita.
Is it? I just throw it in the oven on high for a bit. Sometimes if I’m lazy I’ll just oil it and cook on high without seasoning. Just using it seasons it some. Even if the season is incomplete, just being oiled will prevent rust until next time and that seasoning builds up. Some people make a hobby of doing things the “right way” though, who am I to judge?
Idk, I gave away an almost new set of cast iron, but for the Dutch over and skillet. Skillet was preseasoned, used Dutch oven for deep frying/stews/casseroles, so it happened quickly enough. The rest of it wasn’t worth it since it’s heavy enough to be more hindrance and time than I actively used regularly.
Tl;dr mostly was for me
Fair enough! I wish I’d been there, free cast iron is the best cast iron.
Heck yeah! If I’d bought the set from a store or online, instead of a yard/estate sale, it would have been several hundred, minimum.
I’m not convinced about your instructions. Applying a thin layer of oil then buffing it then washing it back off? That doesn’t make any sense. Modern dish soaps are very good at cleaning thin oil films. Why oil it then wash the oil off? Idk like I said.
The amount of oil on the surface that you need to stop rust is on the molecular level.
Do it, don’t do it, whatever suits you, That’s what I do and it works for me.
… yeah surfactants are molecules too… I’m thinking I’ll not, as someone with a proper material science education. No shade, just, you’re definitely not correct, or maybe your house uses bacon grease as dish soap.
house uses bacon grease as dish soap.
I’m no materials scientist, just some guy on the internet who wants to make sure there isn’t a revolutionary idea missed in they throwaway comment.
People have historically used bacon grease to make soap, with lye. It’s also commonly used to seal pans against moisture, without washing them after. Also is a decent chrome polish.
You sound fun lol
Bar keepers Friend, for the equivalent oxalic acid/ddbsa cleaner in your area will remove dark carbon from most surfaces, especially when used with a magic eraser/melamine sponge
I had no idea! Thank you! I keep this to clean my ceramic cast iron sink but had no idea that I could use this on my glass top stove and the burnt bottom of my pans!
I used vinegar to get the rust off of a bunch of (Pogs) Slammers that had gotten wet in my parents basement. It worked reasonably well on most of them.
If we’re not talking about food safe applications crc evaporust is absolutely magical. But it will leave the surface dark which you then would need to buff back off.
Let us reiterate that for the folks in the back: do not use evaporust on anything you consume food from.
Honest question, why?
The material safety data sheet really doesn’t indicate toxicity. It’s not a carcinogen or mutagen (even in California)
The marketing material on their website shows a cast iron pan
Okay, I will admit I might be wrong on that. The ingredients are proprietary, so I guess we have to trust their docs and the MSDS here.
If California thinks it’s safe, it must be safe, they claim everything causes cancer 🤣
thank you based pogchamp
Barkeeper’s Friend is a miracle, but people should know it’s incredibly abrasive and can debride enamelware. I ruined a pan’s outer finish because that didn’t occur to me, using it to get carbonisation off the bottom.
It’s brilliant for raw metal and glass cooktops, though. When I bought my house, the previous owners left a kit for the glass cooktop including the razor tool in your OP. I’m so grateful they did because I wouldn’t have known.
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If you clean the top after every use, then it’ll never get bad enough to need this thing. Just an FYI, if you’d rather not stare at encrusted burn residue for another 6 years.
If you clean the top after every use, then it’ll never get bad enough to need this thing.
laughs neurodivergently
We’re doing our best guys, trust us
I don’t necessarily clean after every use, but I do clean before the next use. I don’t turn the stove on if it’s dirty, that will bake the mess in. I might dirty all four burners and then decide “can’t cook, stoves dirty,” until I’m up for wiping it down with a wet paper towel. I think of it as a dish, I might not clean it right away, but I’m certainly not going to eat off it again before cleaning it.
I don’t turn the stove on if it’s dirty, that will bake the mess in.
Plus it’ll burn and stink, instead of smelling your good home cooking.
Look at mr. Never-Burned-Liquid-Malt-Extract-Making-Wort over here
I’ve made beer a few times, but I’m super meticulous when I do it because I don’t want all that money and time to go to waste because of mistakes or contamination. So I’ve never had any serious beer making accidents.
I’m doing my first brew now. I underestimated the size of my brew pot and had a nice mess of LME burned onto the glass stove. That took forever to get out.
But hey, hopefully this oatmeal stout turns out well
If you clean the top after every use,
True, but: I don’t wanna.
They should make tiny stovetop Roombas that look like the robots from Batteries Not Included
Ahhhh it was so sad at the end when the building collapsed and the one baby was there trying to fit the tiles together to rebuild
Fair point, but this is one of those “if a jobs worth doing, it’s worth doing badly” situations where just waving a towel at it still helps prevent stuff getting out of hand.
Of course this is easiest with induction because you don’t need to wait for stuff to cool at all
That’s called a paint scraper, my dude
But it’s not for scraping paint. It’s for cleaning the stovetop surface.
It looks like a razor with a handle?
Won’t metal do damage / scratch a glass surface? Is it safe?
Depends on the hardness of the metal you would need a metal.
These stoves are mostly aluminium oxide, which has a mohs hardness of 9 and steel is 4-8.I looked more into it and I found glass ceramic stoves have a mohs hardness of 6-7. So a very hard steel should be able to scratch it, but most steels including stainless should be fine.I’m, I need to correct misinfo here. Induction stove tops are commonly a specific amorphous phase of pokycrystaline glass ceramic compound, which may include aluminum oxide, but is not only Al-Ox. As you sound like you are aware, mild changes to compounds can dramatically alter properties like hardness and plasticity.
With that being said I can’t actually find any verifiable information about the exact compound or additives or hardness. And my point isn’t necessarily that you’re super wrong, it’s just that the hardness may be higher than aluminum oxide alone.
I looked a bit more into it and the first spec I found had a knoop hardness of 600 which should be mohs 6-7 so hardened steel should be able to scratch it.
Is mnoop hardness a special hardness scale for gemstones or something? Never heard of that before. I’m not an actual mechanical engineer though, just a dropout lmao
I read that its used to measure the hardness of brittle materials, but I could be wrong.
Glass is harder than most metals.
It can, yeah. You have to be careful to press gently in the center of the blade and not put pressure on the corners which will gouge huge scratches into glass. I have one of these for cleaning my paint pallette and get double-duty out of it on oven cleaning day.
They make cleaning kits for these stove tops that typically come with a cheaper plastic version of the tool with a weaker metal razor. Still does the job well, but less scratching chance. Also usually comes with a fine-grain polishing cream and sponges to apply it with. The cream helps to buff out lighter scratches and remove some of the cooked on stuff.
It doesn’t scratch the glass, even when applying quite some force. The blade dulls pretty fast, it probably doesn’t have the hardness to damage the glass.
It’s specifically called a [glass/ceramic] stove cleaning [blade/scraper]. I’ve used one a lot and it doesn’t seem to do noticeable damage (glass stove tops need to be pretty tough anyways to handle regular cooking)
As long as you keep the blade flat against the glass it doesn’t scratch. If you use the corner of the blade to scrape it will scratch.
Yes, it’s pretty much just that. It comes with spare blades in the handle, and they are double sided ! Very useful, because they dull pretty fast.
It is!
nooooo its called “Ceranfeldkratzer”
The package reads:
- Reinigungsschaber
- Cleansing scraper
- Racloir nettoyant
- Raedera para limpiar
- Raschietto universale
One of these is not like the other
All gibberish
TIL it’s not a thing everywhere. Thought it was as common as can openers or cooking spoons internationally!
Razor scrapers aren’t a thing everywhere there are razors? Wierd.
You can just use a razor blade and vice grips. Comfier handle
When we had our electric oven I’d use a pastry cutter to scrape everything off
Note: pastry cutters may not look sharp but they are. Sliced my thumb open on one while putting dishes away and spent months regrowing my nail
Something wrong with your cutter! They shouldn’t be sharp!
Possibly, though sliding your thumb over the edge pretty fast at an angle seems to end up causing the slice anyway. I regret not taking pictures during the healing process :(
using one as a scraper might serve to sharpen it actually, this cut could’ve been a veritable perfect storm
Agree
spent months regrowing my nail
Oof… I can relate to this…
A similar razorblade scraper came with my cooktop cleaning kit. But the liquid cleaner and scrubber almost makes it unneccary. Weiman brand.
I am not denying I have neglected regular maintenance of my cooking plates 😅
This is what amazon calls that cleaning kit if you want to look for it:
Weiman Cooktop and Stove Top Cleaner Kit - Glass Cook Top Cleaner and Polish 10 oz. Scrubbing Pad, Cleaning Tool, Razor, Scraper
Those scrapers are magic for glass cooktops.
If only I knew they existed earlier !
scrapping tool
I think scrapping wasn’t what happened here.
Probably what happened was that scraps were scraped off.
It seems like a scrappy little scraper.
Degreaser works quite well, too.
Oh man when that shit came off it must have been such a relief
My grandfather has something similar but it’s brass (or maybe copper) on the the end. Swears by it for all kinds of things
Isn’t copper cookware toxic if ot starts leeching copper into food for those with wilsons disease
Thanks for sharing.
