Ruined stove top

[Brandon]

So my in-laws are making their annual visit to our side of the country. My wife can't get the residue from a boil over or two off of the stove. I've purchased a burner and won't be brewing on the stove anymore but does anyone have any suggestions to get the stove clean?

Thats the best thing that could have happened to you! Now you can do full boils outside!

[Brew Swillis]

Sure.... providing he can survive the blowback!! My brewbuddy brings his burner over so I dont tempt the fates with my own wife for good reason!! lol

[johnfoster]

I just looked at my own stove to see that the top was on hinges. it looks like it would be just four bolts off to take it off. a quick search reveals that most tops are available.

[Hessian Lake]

So my in-laws are making their annual visit to our side of the country. My wife can't get the residue from a boil over or two off of the stove. I've purchased a burner and won't be brewing on the stove anymore but does anyone have any suggestions to get the stove clean?

Am I correct in thinking that you are asking how to clean the coils?

[Nyakavt]

The Mr. Clean magic erasers work pretty good on baked on stains, and as far as I can tell they don't scratch.

[DrYeast]

I just moved from a rented house, and my landlord is a dick and made us clean everything. The oven cleaner suggestion above is the correct course of action. It's got lye in it, and will remove anything with one or two applications (depending on contact time).

I've never cleaned an oven before, and there was a lot of stuff baked on, cured, charred, and dried on the underside of the stove top and around the burner covers (who knew that the stovetop swings up?).

You spray on the oven cleaner, let it sit for 5 minutes to an hour, and then wipe off, you probably won't need to do much scrubbing, as it dissolves organics (including skin). It left no marks or damage to any surface of my enamel oven. If it doesn't come off the first time, then it will with the second application. Lye and caustic (brewery cleaners) are both concentrated NaOH, and what's good enough for pro brewers is good enough for a cook top.

My advice is spray it on, pour a beer, drink the beer, watch some TV, get an old sponge and some gloves, wipe it off with lots of rinsing, and then get a little lye on you to show your wife the chemical burn that you sustained while slaving over the cleaning of the cook top. It stings a little, and will leave you with a nice irritated spot that'll last a couple of days (I didn't wear gloves, and only got a few burns), but it'll show her how much you tried to clean the stove. Win-win.

Just get it off of the stove, you don't want her constantly reminded of brewing as a dirty hobby. I parlayed a boil over into a new outdoor burner and never looked back.

[Baumgartner]

those mr. clean magic erasers are pretty amazing. i use them all the time because they dont scratch anything but seem to remove everything.

[MikeyHomebrewer]

What a recipe for disaster:

A) Your in-laws are coming (This is the base malt of disaster)
B) You fucked up the stove top with your hobby
C) Your wife can't get it clean, which means that you aren't even trying

Fermentation time: Two days max


Good luck, bro.

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