Hey everyone, I’ve got a chrome oven (Moulinex Optimo OX4848) with some seriously stubborn burnt-on food splatters that just won’t budge. I’ve tried degreaser (KH-7) and scrubber sponge, steel sponge scrubber, and even a sanding block. The sanding block was working, but I heard it might damage the chrome plating, leading to rusting underneath.
The trickiest spots are on the top of the oven, and I’m wondering if it’s safe to turn the oven over to let some steaming water loosen up those burnt spots. What would you all recommend as the best way to thoroughly clean those difficult burnt-on spots without damaging the chrome plating? I want to get it really clean without risking damage to the oven surface itself. Any specific products or techniques you have used that worked well for this?
I’m in Spain, so I’d appreciate recommendations for specific products that I can find in local supermarkets (all the products available in Spanish supermarkets are in soysuper.com).
I really don’t care if I damage Chrome… Firefox on the other hand… you better not touch that!
On the serious side though, yeah, sanding it down will damage the chrome. You might not get to the metal, but it will become less shiny and porouse, and more food will stick to that particular part in the future, and it will be harder to get off.
We have a product over here, it’s called Arris DeGrass, I don’t think you have that in the US… it’s a degreaser, but it’s extra strong, like you don’t use that without gloves, EVER!.. ask me how I know 😂. Most people use it for cleaning ACs and degresing engines around here. So, basically, find an engine degreaser and use that, that should work just fine. But make sure you wash down everything REALLY REALLY good afterwards.
I see your oven doesn’t have rubber strips that could be damaged: Heat oven for a couple of minutes. Put a bowl with water and ammonia in the middle of the oven and leave it overnight in a well ventilated room. Next day all that brown stuff will be softened. Opttional you can cover the sides and bottom of the oven with green soap. Next morning everything should come off easily.
Green Soap? Like Irish Spring?
I used to use 000 steel wool on chrome motorcycle pipes and they never scratched, so that’s safe. For your stove, I’d try some boiling water to soften the mess first. Then, go ahead and clean in your regular fashion.
Theoretically, someone could have baked the sugar from lemonade onto their pipes by riding with a cup of it in a cup holder attached to an engine guard. Then hypothetically that person could have had great success removing it using Bike Brite, then taking 000 steel wool to it after the bulk was gone.
I’m not saying it happened, I’m saying you can’t prove it happened to me.
What about automotive chrome cleaner? Some of those products are supposed to break down stuff that has been baked on at exhaust temps, far above any oven or stove surface.
I looked at the stove, it says it is stainless steel, perhaps you can use something else that you could not use on chrome steel.
