How to wash the grate of a gas stove from grease and soot

Types of lattices

Since the grates for the stove are pro­duced from var­i­ous mate­ri­als, each one has its own clean­ing method. Grids for gas stoves are usu­al­ly:

1. Steel
2. Cast iron
3. enam­elled

How to clean a steel grate from grease and soot?

There are sev­er­al such ways:

1. If the grate is dis­as­sem­bled into parts, then with a slight con­t­a­m­i­na­tion it can be washed from fat in the dish­wash­er.
2. Since steel eas­i­ly tol­er­ates the effects of aggres­sive sub­stances, traces of soot on it will quick­ly be removed by any strong deter­gent. It just needs to con­tain acid. Oven clean­ers are also suit­able. It will be enough to apply the agent on the grate and leave it for sev­er­al hours in a basin or bath, cov­er­ing the bot­tom with poly­eth­yl­ene. This pro­ce­dure is not rec­om­mend­ed for bath­tubs with acrylic inserts as the sur­face may be dam­aged. You can also place the grate in a tight garbage bag, pour the prod­uct into it and leave it for sev­er­al hours. After that, all burnt fat can be eas­i­ly cleaned with a sponge and water.

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You can use ordi­nary soda or dry mus­tard, which are mixed with water to a mushy state and applied to the sur­face to be treat­ed. To clean old traces of fat, an iron brush or knife is used. Then the grate must be thor­ough­ly washed with water and wiped with a rag.

To facil­i­tate wash­ing the gas stove grate in the future, it is treat­ed with the fol­low­ing solu­tion. Wash­ing pow­der, sta­tionery glue and soda ash are thor­ough­ly mixed in a ratio of 1:2:6. The com­po­si­tion must be applied to a washed dry sur­face. After the mix­ture dries, the grate can be used.

Clean­ing it after­wards will be very sim­ple — it will be enough to wash the soda-adhe­sive solu­tion, and soot will dis­ap­pear with it. Then you can apply the mix­ture again.

How to clean a cast iron grate?

Cast iron grates for a gas stove have their advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages. Due to its ther­mal con­duc­tiv­i­ty, this mate­r­i­al helps house­wives in the prepa­ra­tion of var­i­ous dish­es. How­ev­er, it must be cleaned care­ful­ly. Cast iron grills do not tol­er­ate rough han­dling: they must not be beat­en off, and abra­sive sub­stances should not be used when clean­ing. It is also not rec­om­mend­ed to use a dish­wash­er. Mean­while, there are sev­er­al options with which you can wash the grate from grease and soot:

• You can scorch soot with a gas stove. To do this, the grate is held over a burn­ing burn­er. Then, when heat­ed, the fat will fall off or burn. This method requires manda­to­ry pre­cau­tions. After all, dur­ing com­bus­tion, harm­ful sub­stances will be released. To avoid con­se­quences, the win­dows in the apart­ment must be open, the hood is turned on. It is bet­ter if the chil­dren are not at home.
• In addi­tion, a cast iron grate can be cal­cined on a fire. Grease and dirt will sim­ply burn on an open flame. Oth­er prod­ucts made of cast iron (pans, caul­drons, etc.) are cleaned in the same way.
• Hot steam will help remove fat. For this, a pow­er­ful steam clean­er is suit­able. But if it does­n’t exist, it does­n’t mat­ter. We put a met­al tray filled with water in the oven. A grate is placed above it. When heat­ed, the water will evap­o­rate, and the soot will lag behind. It is very easy to wash the grate with steam, even with­out the use of house­hold chem­i­cals.
• You can use prod­ucts designed for wash­ing and clean­ing car engines. This method is not with­out mean­ing, since such tools are care­ful about the met­al.

How to clean an enamel grate?

Enam­elled met­al grills must not be cleaned with steel wool or abra­sive prod­ucts. After all, they are quite easy to dam­age or scratch. But even for such grat­ings, there are sev­er­al effec­tive options for gen­tle clean­ing:

• An easy and quick way is to wash it in the dish­wash­er.
• They can be washed using folk meth­ods with­out using chem­istry. It will be nec­es­sary to soak the grate in a solu­tion of vine­gar or mus­tard pow­der for sev­er­al hours. After that, the grease is eas­i­ly removed with a cloth or dish sponge.
• Also, car­bon deposits can be cleaned with a melamine sponge. It must be soaked in a solu­tion of laun­dry soap and treat­ed with a grate from all sides.

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Whichev­er method you choose, first of all, you need to car­ry out all work with rub­ber gloves. They will help to avoid irri­ta­tion and dam­age to the skin or bro­ken nails. In addi­tion, after clean­ing, only a dry grate should be placed on the gas stove. Oth­er­wise, in places where mois­ture remains, fat will stick faster. It should also be cleaned at least once a week. After all, the time­ly removal of soot will sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the time for clean­ing and funds. Now you know how to clean the grate of a gas stove from grease and soot with­out the use of house­hold chem­i­cals.