Metropol

Since metropol is a forum full of talented housewives it seems the right place to pose the questions,

1) How the HELL do you clean grease off grill pans without getting that revolting, slippery and unremovably translucene white slime that appears as the grease cools?
2) How the HELL do you get milk stains off glasses? These seem to be almost inside the glass, and I am desperate here.

In both cases I have tried absolutely everything, it's all totally futile. So I am despreate need of your domestic tips.

Simple:

1/ Buy a new grill pan.
2/ Buy new glasses.

Not only is the problem solved, but you've also helped to stimulate the economy.

Cillit bang?

Chie wrote:Cillit bang?

is rubbish

1 - The simple way is to cover the bottom section with tin foil which can then be disposed of when the grease annoys you too much. Generally I dislike wasteful things like that however there are exceptions. You could also try a teflon baking sheet which you can easily slide the grease off.

For grease that's already on, Fairy Power Spray is the most powerful stuff in the universe. The back of the bottle claims you spray, leave and wipe but that's shite, spray, leave and then aggitate with a brush, then clean off in boiling hot water will remove the majority of it.

2 - Milk stains are indeed annoying. Aside from using v. hot water there are two tricks.

First of all, with full (of water) but empty (of dishes) sink, place the glass upside down onto the surface and then pump it up and down under the water briskly. The hot water will fly around the inside of the glass and remove a lot of resideue from the glass. Otherwise you're best bet is a dish brush, and the vileda ones are particularly nicely shapes to fit into glasses. Cheap square ones are pointless as they don't have the curve at the bottom to be able to clean the base.

Good luck.

Lakeland solve most of my kitchen woes.

Ah, excellent, just what I was hoping for.

I'm a big believer in tin foil for baking and go through rolls of the stuff, not great on the environment but certainly saves on washing up detergant, that's my argument anyway and i'm sticking to it I don't think foil on grill pans would work though. I have a particularly unhealthy habit of going through four beef burgers per day (curse sainsbury's and their brilliant deal, 8 for £5, taste the difference posh stuff).

I shall have to buy some Fairy Power Spray. I think I even saw it on the shelf but was put off by it since it looked like the sort of thing you might find to freshen the air in a tart's boudoir. I may possibly also get some Cillit Bang Degreaser having done some resaerch, but only because Barry says so. The main problem with grease is if you try and remove it when it's hot, you just end up brushing around the grease instead of removing it, and if you wait until it cools, it turns into a hard, crusty layer. Ugh.

The invertred thrusting cleaning manoeuvre looks very promising. I have nice Pyrex glasses so boiling hot water shouldn't be a problem. However the affected ones are cheap shit from Ikea. I'll try very hot water and if that fails I'll dispose of the things on account of them being an unwise purchase.

thanks

Grease depends what you're cooking obviously, but I don't even try and wash the thing until all the grease that can be poured (when it's hot) or scraped off (when it's set) is gone.

cdd wrote:I don't think foil on grill pans would work though.

actually, it has the potential to work even better. See the thing with grill pans, and I presume you're preferring to one of these is that the food never touches the foil. Therefore you can leave the foil in the bottom section for a week or so saving foil.

Hey, I'm sure I saw one of those things once.

Is that something I might have seen on one of my rare visits to that kitchen place?

Hymagumba wrote:

cdd wrote:I don't think foil on grill pans would work though.

actually, it has the potential to work even better. See the thing with grill pans, and I presume you're preferring to one of these

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is that the food never touches the foil.

Ah! What an excellent idea. Never thought of putting the foil under it! I shall try that forthwith!

cdd wrote:

Hymagumba wrote:

cdd wrote:I don't think foil on grill pans would work though.

actually, it has the potential to work even better. See the thing with grill pans, and I presume you're preferring to one of these

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is that the food never touches the foil.

Ah! What an excellent idea. Never thought of putting the foil under it! I shall try that forthwith!

I don't understand why this is a revelation, I thought everyone put foil in the grill pan?!

I certainly will when my brand spanking new oven arrives this week.