I get lots of questions about the essential oils in this. I had heard they were good for cutting thru the grease, but I’ve tried it again without and it still worked fine! Don’t stress it if you don’t have the oils!
If you wet the pan with water or vinegar first the baking soda will stick to the pan and then you can spray it with the vinegar. You will also use less this way.
Don't let the people screaming about "That's too much work!" get ya down. They're just lazy. The difference in your drip pan was like night and day. Amazing work! Thanks for doing the legwork for us and finding a way that genuinely works (and works well).
@@rhuarkk2138 that's the problem with this world. Folks think everything is disposable. Money piles up when we care for our things and don't have to rebuy everything.
Note to renters, some stove tops on these older models of ovens will actually lift up so you can clean underneath the whole stove top. I didn't know that until I started cleaning houses.
I inherited my grandmother's house, and scrubbed with warm soapy water and steel wool for an hour in despair. Quick search on the 'tube, and this absolutely works wonders. Thanks! Looked in some of my old Mary Ellen hint books, and found this method there as well. It's a lost art, it seems. I could have saved myself a good deal of work and time if I had just looked first. Also, old household hint books are worth having. You never know what we forgot until you look.
Thank you for letting us know it works on an old stove. I just moved into my in-laws house and the original 43 year old stove drip pans have probably never been cleaned. I too have tried everything!
Don't be embarrassed by how bad your drip pan/s looked... clearly a lot of us have the same problem and if anyone judges someone like that shame on them. lol Thank you for sharing! 💜
why in the hell don't they make these things with the same non stick coating as the pans themselves........drives me effing nuts. I'd pay 3 times as much for a set if it meant an easy swipe to clean and never having to replace them again😡😡😡😡
Key words "replace them again"... why would they ever want you to keep them forever? What is needed is someone who coats them and sells that product before the others will join in. They won't kill their bottom line willingly.
I use baking soda and hydrogen peroxide (H2o2) works for inside stove too and no smell (unlike vinegar!) Also, I take them out of the stovetop and soak them in the mixture in a large bowl and scrub them in the sink, which is less messy. Otherwise all the mixture chunks can possibly get into the electric attachment etc. And creates more work cleaning top of stove and down in the burner bins.
Thank you sooooo much! I desperately needed this months ago and I procrastinated so they were HORRIBLE! This actually worked and they look almost brand new!
This is a great method. And thanks for creating this video for all of us to learn from. I will try this method this afternoon and let you know how it works.
I'm so excited to try this out oh my gosh. I live with people who don't clean and if they do it's very superficial and not actually clean. Hopefully this will help us keep our deposit!
OH SWEETIE... I learned this method with my Great Grandmother... baking soda and vinegar 60 yr ago ( i am giving my age...) I am glad you found this.. It has been around for ages!
Scrub with Barkeepers Friend for a spotless finish. BF is formulated to clean food stains and baked on grease off any stainless steel cookware with excellent results. Use BF to keep your stainless steel cookware, drip pans, and oven grates looking like new for decades.
@@morganboss7649 Not true. You can line pans in the oven which goes well over 500 degrees Fahrenheit, the aluminum foil will not melt. You've gotta go over 1,000 for the melting point of aluminum. You'll probably have an issue if you let grease accumulate and that will do it but aluminum foil won't melt in an oven or stove top.
Thank you for making this videos, and for all your helpful videos thus far. I want to let you and everyone else know that whenever I need to scrape ANY tiny crevice, I use those little plastic tasting spoons. They come in all sizes on eBay, and you can use them to remove the lime around faucets, stubborn stains in toilets, stuck on grease on drip pans, (use a wet paste of Bon-Ami to facilitate the process) , glue from labels on bottles (using coconut oil as a lubricant after removing the paper part of the label, fry pans, coffee pots, and hundreds of other things. The best part is they don't scratch ANY type of surface, (that I've discovered so far). Finding something that wouldn't mar the enamel on a beautiful old stove was the reason I went to a plastic spoon in the first place! It was a simple picnic spoon, but the tasting spoons work SO MUCH BETTER! (Note that I don't use Teflon, so I cannot attest to their effectiveness on that product). Best of all, when their edges get worn out, they are cheap enough to grab another for your next project!
I use this method as well but I lightly mist the pan with water then shake off the excess before sprinkling the baking soda on. The baking soda catches the first time, after spraying the vinegar water on, I dont need to reapply the baking soda. Great method.
So, chemically, you have limonene - a great grease cutter - and the action of a baking-soda-and-vinegar paste, which amounts to a carbonic acid paste until the CO2 leaves the morass. Hm ... seems like a cheap way to do this. I would probably just get "Simple Green", which is a dynamite degreaser, and then add some beer - so the guys won't mind doing it - and you should get similar results. Steel wool will score the pan so that the next cleaning will be quite a bit more difficult. Try Kosher salt and a cloth for the abrasive. That works on cast iron pans. To keep from doing this ever, put aluminium foil around the pans, and replace monthly. :D Didn't mean to hijack your wonderful video, but it got me to thinking, and I like thinking and teaching.
Great information! Thanks for sharing the scientific aspect of it. I hope that the guys watching are secure enough in their masculinity that they don't feel like they have to spend extra on beer to avoid using the ever-effeminate vinegar lol!
Thanks! Will try this. These drip pans are expensive to buy on their own. Like $5 or $7 a piece, depending on the size. I think in the future, I will wrap them in aluminum foil, so I can simply change the aluminum foil when they get grimy.
I feel like this helped me, I just recently started to clean a lot of spots that get over looked, and I don’t have baking soda or distilled vinegar but that is def something I am going to add into my chemical drawer, along side with some others ❤️ thanks for this!
Hi. Today I was cleaning my electric cooking top...and it was so difficult to clean the drip pans. ..so now was searching youtube for a solution and thank you so much for uploading this video. It is so helpful. I will try this next time. thank you once again. Bye :)
my method for keeping the stove top nice and shiny is to buy TWO sets of pans, (they aren't that expensive), and use one for cooking, and one for after cooking, when everything has been cleaned up. I just run the "cooking" set through the dishwasher if I have to, because they will be constantly stained and who has time for all that ? Thanx for this video.
that is awesome and just too funny as i was in the process of cleaning mine and tried to google how to foil line the drip pans! thank you and i will try this for sure!!!
This worked well on moderately soiled pans, but did little to clean a badly soiled one. I even left the stuff on overnight, then reapplied it the next morning. Not much difference. I sprayed the vinegar on first. That gave the soda something to cling to. Then I gave it another spritz of vinegar. I didn't have any essential oil. I don't think it would have helped on the three pans that cleaned up well without it.
You can, but it will require a lot of elbow grease, so I don’t clean my oven this way! Angela Brown has a great tutorial on her channel about how she cleans ovens as a professional housekeeper. I use her method for oven cleaning!
Thank you so much. It worked well. I only used the vinegar, baking soda and a plastic scrub brush. I applied th vinegar and baking soda paste. Then put the pan in a plastic grocery bag. I waited 2 hours then scrubbed it clean.
I don’t have any personal experience with enamel drip pans, but I’m worried the steel wool would be too abrasive. Maybe try Scrub Daddy power paste? It’s pretty gentle but effective on other things I’ve used it for.
Someone taught me to cover the drip pans with aluminum foil, then replace the foil every so often. Obviously I was told after the fact, so I am here. Going to give this a try
Best of luck! The lemon juice might be a little sticky so if you don’t get the result you want, try again without it. When I made this video, I had been lead to believe the essential oils were necessary for this but I have since tried it without and it worked fine. I think they probably just help with the vinegar smell.
what is the purpose of the essential oils? do I have to use them for this to work? can I do the whole method in the sink to keep mess at bay? and what if after mixture is added to pan I place them in a baggie? thanks!
I found out from another video if you put your drip pan in a ziplock bag and add ammonia in the bag, zip it shut and put it outside for 24hr all you have to do is just dump it out afterwards and just wash it off with dish soap and water and rinse. I don’t have to scrub at all!
Wow you did it the hard way. I got out my gloves and Nevr Dull and cleaned 4 drip pans on my stove in under 10 minutes got everything off the first time washed them, rinsed them dried them and had my stove together before maintenance arrived. My drip pans look like I just bought brand new ones.
When vinegar and baking soda are first mixed together, hydrogen ions in the vinegar react with the sodium and bicarbonate ions in the baking soda. The result of this initial reaction is two new chemicals: carbonic acid and sodium acetate.
I’ve read on so many DIY cleaning sites that mixing baking soda and vinegar simply creates a salt water solution and is ineffective. They advise to use both, but separately. What’s your opinion?
That's why I didn't mix the baking soda first! Any recipe that tells you to mix baking soda and vinegar and then apply it is essentially just making salt water. With the process I used in this video, having that neutralizing reaction bubbling on the drip pans felt like it helped work some of the gunk off (kinda like the cleaner scrubbing bubbles) while still leaving enough baking soda to absorb some grease and be used as an abrasive later in the process. Hope that answers your question!
Looks fantastic. Gonna try it tomorrow. Baking soda and peroxide toothpaste works well too. i tried it a month ago. Im using another toothpaste now without baking soda and peroxide. It doesnt work. Your method sounds more cost effective.
great job but I have to agree with most people have no patience to hard. I did it and it works for me and its safe and cheap.You can use peroxide if you have no vinegar or lemon juice. If one likes oven cleaner, hm.. actually ruined the finish and never shined again. I hear from a restaurant cook theres is carbon off at restaurant suppliers to use on those and bottom of nasty burnt on pot bottoms so for those who like to spray and pay use carbon off. Otherwise I like this method daily so it doesnt build up baking soda alone will work well daily.
In theory, it's supposed to help break down grease. In reality, I think it just makes the vinegar smell better. Since filming I've tried it without the oil and it still worked.
Yeah, I'd probably steer clear of steel wool on the stove top itself since it would damage the finish. I think I'd give Bar Keeper's Friend (the powdered kind) a try with a scrubber sponge. If that doesn't work, there's this stuff from the dollar tree called LA's Totally Awesome that's basically a nuke. I've gotten mechanic's grease out of carpet with that stuff. Just make sure you have good ventilation when you use it.
katya rose Yikes! I'd try to peel off as much of the foil as you can. Then for the smaller pieces the abrasive nature of a steel wool pad should help get those off. The baking soda and vinegar wouldn't have as much as an effect as the steel wool, so start with just that! Hope that helps!
Mel Finehout OMG! That sounds like it would work but really expensive and maybe even a little hazardous to your health. How many bottles did you need to buy to boil it in the dish soap? I have several burners. I would pr baby have to buy several to make sure they are all under the liquid soap. How long did you boil it for?
I have stainless steel frying pans, and when they get really stained with baked on grease I put them in my large canning pot with boiling water, dish soap,( just maybe a quarter of a cup,) and baking powder. This should also work for the drip pans, I boil my frying pans for about 30 minutes and then take my scrubby and scrub off the loosened grease.
i have a drip tray for my conventional oven i wanna try this on but i also wanna try it on these drip pans too cause mine are just blah lol ill update this comment if it works THANKS for taking the time to do this
I waited a couple hours. It’s up to you, really. You can go straight at it and might have to scrub just a little more or you could sprinkle it on there and leave it overnight. The chemicals you’re using are gentle enough they won’t harm them.
Thank you I'll try! And no judgment! Mine were super dirty LOL . And in response to other people's comments, no I don't want to go buy another four pack they're like at least $15 which is ridiculous because they're going to keep getting dirty this is not a one-time fix.
Hi when you say let it sit for a few hours before you scrub how much is a few hours? Like full 24 hours? Just over night? I just want to make sure so I don't leave it on there for too little time thanks.
Homemaking Madeline ok thank you I will try this. Also do you know if i can use these liquids to clean my oven as well? The oven door inside as well as the bottom of the oven inside is burnt with grease and it won't come off no matter how much I try to clean it so I was wondering if I could use the drip pan method inside the oven? Just not sure if these liquids and stuff are safe for oven use.
I know a friend of mine uses vinegar and baking soda to clean her oven! Although I don't know why lemon wouldn't be safe, since I don't have any research on that, I'd suggest just sticking with the vinegar and baking soda.
Wow! Great job and great video :) I like your personality- sweet and straight to the point. I’m about to try this. I think I will make a paste instead and let it sit for a bit.. is the essential oil just for scent?
Thanks! Yeah, it is. When I first tried this, I was told the oils helped cut the grease a lot and believed it but a couple months later, I repeated the process without the oils and it worked just as well.
Worked great! But I'm quite sure that what you called steel wool is a stainless steel pot scrubber. A steel wool pad might take away the shininess of your pans.
Jessica Luna I haven't tried it. TBH, I've had a gas range for over a year now so I haven't been able to test other ways of doing this. I think the steel wool is probably your best bet since it is so abrasive.
+John Spampinato It works with just baking soda and vinegar, the essential oil is just to help cut the grease easier. But the baking soda and vinegar are the bread and butter of this method.
Best way ever is a soak in soapy water followed by a soapy steel wool. I just buy plain steel wools and charge it with dish detergent when I use it. We have little Asian stores in NZ where you can buy anything, for 12 we pay about $3, so it costs a lot less than those already soaped
I want to buy a new set, how do I measure....? what do I measure to make sure I buy the right size...I will be buying on ebay so I need an answer as quickly as possible before it is taken off the block...please...thank you.
All you should need to do is buy 2 small and 2 large for your brand of stove. Such as: Samsung, LG, Maytag, GE (General Electric), Kenmore, Whirlpool, Hot Point, Frigidaire, etc.
mine aren't so much grease stains but a bunch of different things gs baked on and has petrified or mineralized if that's the right word. I'll give this a go and see if it makes a fifference if not I'll have to buy a new ones.
The ones that were grimy like yours for me was the front 2 but I did them all , hey its worth a shot. While I was letting it work I raised the hood and cleaned off that was there to clean. Being an old fart dont know where I got the energy maybe it was from the banana smoothie. I will report back letting the result be known.
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I get lots of questions about the essential oils in this. I had heard they were good for cutting thru the grease, but I’ve tried it again without and it still worked fine! Don’t stress it if you don’t have the oils!
If you wet the pan with water or vinegar first the baking soda will stick to the pan and then you can spray it with the vinegar. You will also use less this way.
Don't let the people screaming about "That's too much work!" get ya down. They're just lazy. The difference in your drip pan was like night and day. Amazing work! Thanks for doing the legwork for us and finding a way that genuinely works (and works well).
Yes but it only stays clean for about a week.
Why not just spend $10 and buy a brand new set? Lmao
@@rhuarkk2138 that's the problem with this world. Folks think everything is disposable. Money piles up when we care for our things and don't have to rebuy everything.
Scorpion I know that's right. It works 💪. If it gets back dirty u know how to clean dat bugga up 💯%.
@@rhuarkk2138 because they’re reusable?
Note to renters, some stove tops on these older models of ovens will actually lift up so you can clean underneath the whole stove top. I didn't know that until I started cleaning houses.
Thank you!!
oh my god you're amazing
i thought it was a grill no wonder it exploded ☺️☺️😅😅😅😂😂😂😀😀😃😃🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
yes, mine does!
I just discovered that myself as I am in the process of cleaning my stove top.
I inherited my grandmother's house, and scrubbed with warm soapy water and steel wool for an hour in despair. Quick search on the 'tube, and this absolutely works wonders. Thanks!
Looked in some of my old Mary Ellen hint books, and found this method there as well. It's a lost art, it seems. I could have saved myself a good deal of work and time if I had just looked first. Also, old household hint books are worth having. You never know what we forgot until you look.
Ooo I’ll have to look those up! I’m a sucker for old home making books!
Thank you for letting us know it works on an old stove. I just moved into my in-laws house and the original 43 year old stove drip pans have probably never been cleaned. I too have tried everything!
Don't be embarrassed by how bad your drip pan/s looked... clearly a lot of us have the same problem and if anyone judges someone like that shame on them. lol Thank you for sharing! 💜
why in the hell don't they make these things with the same non stick coating as the pans themselves........drives me effing nuts. I'd pay 3 times as much for a set if it meant an easy swipe to clean and never having to replace them again😡😡😡😡
Setsunna Now that is a million dollar idea right there!
No overuse of nonstick pans can cause it to leak chemicals
Amen. I hate electric stoves bc of this.
Or why not stainless steel or another “no rust” material??
Key words "replace them again"... why would they ever want you to keep them forever? What is needed is someone who coats them and sells that product before the others will join in. They won't kill their bottom line willingly.
Try the NO scrub method of thoroughly spraying with "Easy Off" oven cleaner, put in a Ziploc bag overnight and the next morning rinse.
You are a lifesaver! I live alone and I have been trying to figure out a way to clean those darn things, thank you!
I use baking soda and hydrogen peroxide (H2o2) works for inside stove too and no smell (unlike vinegar!) Also, I take them out of the stovetop and soak them in the mixture in a large bowl and scrub them in the sink, which is less messy. Otherwise all the mixture chunks can possibly get into the electric attachment etc. And creates more work cleaning top of stove and down in the burner bins.
Better way! Fill bucket baking soda and vinegar, let sit, rinse off! Wahla MAGIC!
Voilà*
I know this comment is old but I really hope you respond!!! How long should I soak it for and do I also put water?
What kind of vinegar
How long to let it sit
youre so white i cant💀
Thank you sooooo much! I desperately needed this months ago and I procrastinated so they were HORRIBLE! This actually worked and they look almost brand new!
Oh I'm so glad to hear that! It feels so good to get those intimidating projects done!
This is a great method. And thanks for creating this video for all of us to learn from. I will try this method this afternoon and let you know how it works.
I'm so excited to try this out oh my gosh. I live with people who don't clean and if they do it's very superficial and not actually clean. Hopefully this will help us keep our deposit!
OH SWEETIE... I learned this method with my Great Grandmother... baking soda and vinegar 60 yr ago ( i am giving my age...) I am glad you found this.. It has been around for ages!
i didnt believe you. then i went and did it, and it really works. that's nuts! awesome, so awesome. thank you!
Everyone who said this is too much is just lazy. This process worked amazing! Thanks for the video and EFFORT 😂 I plan to try this soon!
Scrub with Barkeepers Friend for a spotless finish. BF is formulated to clean food stains and baked on grease off any stainless steel cookware with excellent results. Use BF to keep your stainless steel cookware, drip pans, and oven grates looking like new for decades.
Just go getto and cover them with aluminum foil before using.
Aluminum foil is only used for free base in my household.
that can actually start a fire because in can melt
grandma did this
@@morganboss7649 Not true. You can line pans in the oven which goes well over 500 degrees Fahrenheit, the aluminum foil will not melt. You've gotta go over 1,000 for the melting point of aluminum. You'll probably have an issue if you let grease accumulate and that will do it but aluminum foil won't melt in an oven or stove top.
Lol that's what my brother does! 😭
Thank you for making this videos, and for all your helpful videos thus far. I want to let you and everyone else know that whenever I need to scrape ANY tiny crevice, I use those little plastic tasting spoons. They come in all sizes on eBay, and you can use them to remove the lime around faucets, stubborn stains in toilets, stuck on grease on drip pans, (use a wet paste of Bon-Ami to facilitate the process) , glue from labels on bottles (using coconut oil as a lubricant after removing the paper part of the label, fry pans, coffee pots, and hundreds of other things. The best part is they don't scratch ANY type of surface, (that I've discovered so far). Finding something that wouldn't mar the enamel on a beautiful old stove was the reason I went to a plastic spoon in the first place! It was a simple picnic spoon, but the tasting spoons work SO MUCH BETTER! (Note that I don't use Teflon, so I cannot attest to their effectiveness on that product). Best of all, when their edges get worn out, they are cheap enough to grab another for your next project!
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
@@maddiejoy7896 You are most welcome!
They are not cheap anymore. No longer get 4 in a pkg. & finish is easily damaged in a short time.
great vid! thanks for not filling the tutorial with useless tall and getting to the point. this is a very helpful vid!
I use this method as well but I lightly mist the pan with water then shake off the excess before sprinkling the baking soda on. The baking soda catches the first time, after spraying the vinegar water on, I dont need to reapply the baking soda. Great method.
So, chemically, you have limonene - a great grease cutter - and the action of a baking-soda-and-vinegar paste, which amounts to a carbonic acid paste until the CO2 leaves the morass.
Hm ... seems like a cheap way to do this. I would probably just get "Simple Green", which is a dynamite degreaser, and then add some beer - so the guys won't mind doing it - and you should get similar results.
Steel wool will score the pan so that the next cleaning will be quite a bit more difficult. Try Kosher salt and a cloth for the abrasive. That works on cast iron pans.
To keep from doing this ever, put aluminium foil around the pans, and replace monthly. :D
Didn't mean to hijack your wonderful video, but it got me to thinking, and I like thinking and teaching.
Great information! Thanks for sharing the scientific aspect of it.
I hope that the guys watching are secure enough in their masculinity that they don't feel like they have to spend extra on beer to avoid using the ever-effeminate vinegar lol!
HAHA! Great sense of humour as well. Of course, vinegar gets more manly in BBQ sauce ... :D
I'm secure in my masculinity, but using my delicious IPA as a cleaning solution? Please!
:D
im a woman and i give u a thumbs up for that reply
Haha... thank you for understanding. :D
Loved the video. Quick, simple, and to the point. Great results. I'm gonna go try it on my drip pans now! Thank you :)
Leah Jarrell Thanks! Be sure to let me know how it goes!
Thanks! Will try this. These drip pans are expensive to buy on their own. Like $5 or $7 a piece, depending on the size. I think in the future, I will wrap them in aluminum foil, so I can simply change the aluminum foil when they get grimy.
they have disposable guards at most dollar stores if you're feeling lazy :) they go under the burner and on top of the drip pans, they're so handy!
Leaks thru or the foil sticks. Not THAT affective.
Dollar Tree sells drip pans for $1
Foil is a fire hazard!
Soaking the drip pans in extremely hot water for about a 1/2 hour will make the whole baking soda/vinegar process much easier.
I feel like this helped me, I just recently started to clean a lot of spots that get over looked, and I don’t have baking soda or distilled vinegar but that is def something I am going to add into my chemical drawer, along side with some others ❤️ thanks for this!
I wish you had shared how to get the pans off the stove to clean them but your efforts were very well done and the results are astonishing.
Hi. Today I was cleaning my electric cooking top...and it was so difficult to clean the drip pans. ..so now was searching youtube for a solution and thank you so much for uploading this video. It is so helpful. I will try this next time. thank you once again. Bye :)
+Usha Sundari It basically feels like magic if you've tried other methods!
Wow! That is an amazing before and after! This is my job tomorrow so i wont have to forfeit money on new ones. Thank you!
Oh my goodness this is insane! Going to try this next time I deep clean my stove top. Thank you!
my method for keeping the stove top nice and shiny is to buy TWO sets of pans, (they aren't that expensive), and use one for cooking, and one for after cooking, when everything has been cleaned up. I just run the "cooking" set through the dishwasher if I have to, because they will be constantly stained and who has time for all that ? Thanx for this video.
What a simple idea!!!!! Thanks for sharing it!!!!
I use an old toothbrush to get the tight areas, works great. Thx!
i live in a college dorm room where they had this style of drip pan/coil top and it was always so irritating for me to look at!!! great tutorial
Best of luck! In college and with the drip pans!
Hi...how are you doing?
that is awesome and just too funny as i was in the process of cleaning mine and tried to google how to foil line the drip pans! thank you and i will try this for sure!!!
This worked well on moderately soiled pans, but did little to clean a badly soiled one. I even left the stuff on overnight, then reapplied it the next morning. Not much difference. I sprayed the vinegar on first. That gave the soda something to cling to. Then I gave it another spritz of vinegar. I didn't have any essential oil. I don't think it would have helped on the three pans that cleaned up well without it.
I use baking soda, vinegar and dawn. I let sit over night and a few times I also spray whatever cleaner I have such as 409 or awesome etc
Same here....gonna try oven cleaner next....
Thank you. I was looking for a way to clean up the stove that my husband uses to cook meals. Once again my stove will look brand new.
Hi ... How are you doing?
WOW, I AM IMPRESSED!! Thanks for the video, it was very helpful for my poor, abused, tortured drip pans 😆
My drip trays are not removable so I tried this. IT WORKS! Thank you!
Corliss Yamasaki
Yay! I'm glad it worked!
Hey-cool thanks! I work at a place that only wants "green" products used. This looks good to me! And I can do the same thing at home...
It didn’t get everything but damn it that’s still an A+ in my book! About to try this today Feb 2023 😂Thanks
Try it with cream of tartar too! It works great:)
Great video, thank you. My oven needs cleaning also, apply the same technique?
You can, but it will require a lot of elbow grease, so I don’t clean my oven this way! Angela Brown has a great tutorial on her channel about how she cleans ovens as a professional housekeeper. I use her method for oven cleaning!
Thank you so much. It worked well. I only used the vinegar, baking soda and a plastic scrub brush. I applied th vinegar and baking soda paste. Then put the pan in a plastic grocery bag. I waited 2 hours then scrubbed it clean.
The One Above All
Awesome! So glad you had good results.
THIS method works the best I've tried. Thank you mille fois !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for posting. I was surprised at how well it worked for yours. I'm going to have to try it on mine.
I was surprised too! I felt like I had tried everything! Let me know if you try it!
Way to go, thanks for sharing and stay blessed!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Will this work for what I think are enamel (white color) drip pans on a ‘vintage’ stove? Thanks for any help with this!
I don’t have any personal experience with enamel drip pans, but I’m worried the steel wool would be too abrasive. Maybe try Scrub Daddy power paste? It’s pretty gentle but effective on other things I’ve used it for.
Someone taught me to cover the drip pans with aluminum foil, then replace the foil every so often.
Obviously I was told after the fact, so I am here. Going to give this a try
Be careful Ryan with the foil. I was told this is a fire hazard.
OMG! I can’t believe how this worked. Nice job!!!!
Hi...how are you doing?
My drip pans are sitting in this solution right now! I don't have essential oils so I added lemon juice instead. Can't wait to see if it works!
Best of luck! The lemon juice might be a little sticky so if you don’t get the result you want, try again without it. When I made this video, I had been lead to believe the essential oils were necessary for this but I have since tried it without and it worked fine. I think they probably just help with the vinegar smell.
what is the purpose of the essential oils? do I have to use them for this to work? can I do the whole method in the sink to keep mess at bay? and what if after mixture is added to pan I place them in a baggie? thanks!
Yes I also have the same question about the essential oils.
I found out from another video if you put your drip pan in a ziplock bag and add ammonia in the bag, zip it shut and put it outside for 24hr all you have to do is just dump it out afterwards and just wash it off with dish soap and water and rinse. I don’t have to scrub at all!
Wow that’s really good. Very impressed
Wow you did it the hard way. I got out my gloves and Nevr Dull and cleaned 4 drip pans on my stove in under 10 minutes got everything off the first time washed them, rinsed them dried them and had my stove together before maintenance arrived. My drip pans look like I just bought brand new ones.
That's great!
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When vinegar and baking soda are first mixed together, hydrogen ions in the vinegar react with the sodium and bicarbonate ions in the baking soda. The result of this initial reaction is two new chemicals: carbonic acid and sodium acetate.
It also works with regular lemon vs lemon oil and thank you for posting!
smileycookiemonster Good to know! I haven't tried it that way.
I can try that next. Odds are one pan is scratched but I will try.
Thank you very much !!!! I thought I would have to go buy new ones. Cant wait to try this!!!
I hope it went well for you!
Yeah i just had the wrong steal wool so it didnt work as well cleaned all but 1
Hello Patricia
That is nice where do you buy them from that sliver part
Thank you for this! I am a little bit of a clean freak and this made my anxiety decrease just knowing I can clean them!
I'm glad it had that affect! I find messiness makes me feel anxiety as well.
I’ve read on so many DIY cleaning sites that mixing baking soda and vinegar simply creates a salt water solution and is ineffective. They advise to use both, but separately. What’s your opinion?
That's why I didn't mix the baking soda first! Any recipe that tells you to mix baking soda and vinegar and then apply it is essentially just making salt water. With the process I used in this video, having that neutralizing reaction bubbling on the drip pans felt like it helped work some of the gunk off (kinda like the cleaner scrubbing bubbles) while still leaving enough baking soda to absorb some grease and be used as an abrasive later in the process. Hope that answers your question!
Looks fantastic. Gonna try it tomorrow. Baking soda and peroxide toothpaste works well too. i tried it a month ago. Im using another toothpaste now without baking soda and peroxide. It doesnt work. Your method sounds more cost effective.
Girl it looks brand new good job thanks
Yay! I’m so glad it worked for you!
I just tried all of this, but I used Lavender Essential Oil and it works as well. . Plus, my stove smells good
great job but I have to agree with most people have no patience to hard. I did it and it works for me and its safe and cheap.You can use peroxide if you have no vinegar or lemon juice. If one likes oven cleaner, hm.. actually ruined the finish and never shined again. I hear from a restaurant cook theres is carbon off at restaurant suppliers to use on those and bottom of nasty burnt on pot bottoms so for those who like to spray and pay use carbon off. Otherwise I like this method daily so it doesnt build up baking soda alone will work well daily.
Fantastic! Thank you. You've saved me some money.
How long do you let this sit before wiping out the baking soda?
A couple hours. I think I went out and ran some errands, then came home and scrubbed them.
What is the purpose of the essential oil? TY.
In theory, it's supposed to help break down grease. In reality, I think it just makes the vinegar smell better. Since filming I've tried it without the oil and it still worked.
TY for your speedy and clear response!
Wow this is amazing they look new
Hey Great Video...U Think This Will Work on That Stubborn Cooked on Oil Scum on The Stove Top? Probably Steel Wool Will Scratch The Surface?
Yeah, I'd probably steer clear of steel wool on the stove top itself since it would damage the finish. I think I'd give Bar Keeper's Friend (the powdered kind) a try with a scrubber sponge. If that doesn't work, there's this stuff from the dollar tree called LA's Totally Awesome that's basically a nuke. I've gotten mechanic's grease out of carpet with that stuff. Just make sure you have good ventilation when you use it.
@@maddiejoy7896 Okey Thanks!... Yeah Headlines "Dude Found Asphixiated in His Apt, But Look How Clean His Stove is"
GreatJob!🎉
I put my drip pan inside the oven and turn on self clean. It cleans the oven and any baking sheets that needs cleaning. Works every time.
Joan Lee
Burn, baby burn
Drip pan inferno 🔥
Joan Lee I had tin foil on mine but they burned onto the drip pans, will doing your method still work?
katya rose Yikes! I'd try to peel off as much of the foil as you can. Then for the smaller pieces the abrasive nature of a steel wool pad should help get those off. The baking soda and vinegar wouldn't have as much as an effect as the steel wool, so start with just that! Hope that helps!
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Joan Lee lol 😹😹😹😹😹
I boiled them in dishwasher detergent. like new. but, I'll try to use this method to clean the stove. ;)
Mel Finehout OMG! That sounds like it would work but really expensive and maybe even a little hazardous to your health. How many bottles did you need to buy to boil it in the dish soap? I have several burners. I would pr baby have to buy several to make sure they are all under the liquid soap. How long did you boil it for?
I have stainless steel frying pans, and when they get really stained with baked on grease I put them in my large canning pot with boiling water, dish soap,( just maybe a quarter of a cup,) and baking powder. This should also work for the drip pans, I boil my frying pans for about 30 minutes and then take my scrubby and scrub off the loosened grease.
You would only need about a quarter of a cup to the boiling water.
So do you leave one burner in to boil the water>:
Why not wipe the spills as you make them?
Do you have to have the essential oils
My question too...
No u do not need the oils 😁
i have a drip tray for my conventional oven i wanna try this on but i also wanna try it on these drip pans too cause mine are just blah lol ill update this comment if it works THANKS for taking the time to do this
How long should you wait until you scrub?
I waited a couple hours. It’s up to you, really. You can go straight at it and might have to scrub just a little more or you could sprinkle it on there and leave it overnight. The chemicals you’re using are gentle enough they won’t harm them.
Oh my nuggets. This helped me out a lot. Thank you 🙏
Thank you I'll try! And no judgment! Mine were super dirty LOL . And in response to other people's comments, no I don't want to go buy another four pack they're like at least $15 which is ridiculous because they're going to keep getting dirty this is not a one-time fix.
thank you
im getting ready to move and im trying do a deep clean of my stove. this helps
Do you have to use essential oils? Or can you use just baking soda and vinegar?
Why do you need the essential oil, just for the smell ? Thanks
Hi when you say let it sit for a few hours before you scrub how much is a few hours? Like full 24 hours? Just over night? I just want to make sure so I don't leave it on there for too little time thanks.
2-3 hours :)
Homemaking Madeline
ok thank you I will try this. Also do you know if i can use these liquids to clean my oven as well? The oven door inside as well as the bottom of the oven inside is burnt with grease and it won't come off no matter how much I try to clean it so I was wondering if I could use the drip pan method inside the oven? Just not sure if these liquids and stuff are safe for oven use.
I know a friend of mine uses vinegar and baking soda to clean her oven! Although I don't know why lemon wouldn't be safe, since I don't have any research on that, I'd suggest just sticking with the vinegar and baking soda.
Homemaking Madeline
Thank you I will be sure to try that then the video has been very helpful I appreciate all the help.
is the essential oil just for smell ??
WOW!!!!!! great idea and it works so well. I'll be doing this tomorrow!
Sharon La Tour and with this mentality you will forever be broke
Wow! Great job and great video :) I like your personality- sweet and straight to the point. I’m about to try this. I think I will make a paste instead and let it sit for a bit.. is the essential oil just for scent?
Thanks! Yeah, it is. When I first tried this, I was told the oils helped cut the grease a lot and believed it but a couple months later, I repeated the process without the oils and it worked just as well.
Worked great! But I'm quite sure that what you called steel wool is a stainless steel pot scrubber. A steel wool pad might take away the shininess of your pans.
I was wondering….
I really hope this works could you use a brush instead for the scrubbing part or a rough part of a sponge?
Jessica Luna I haven't tried it. TBH, I've had a gas range for over a year now so I haven't been able to test other ways of doing this. I think the steel wool is probably your best bet since it is so abrasive.
Which I watch this first prior to cleaning my drip pan. Do you have to add the essential oil?
No, it just helps with the vinegar smell if you don’t like it. I’ve tried it again without the oils and got the same results!
Hello Kelly
Hi.. is the essential oil a must or will it work with just the vinegar and baking soda?
+John Spampinato It works with just baking soda and vinegar, the essential oil is just to help cut the grease easier. But the baking soda and vinegar are the bread and butter of this method.
Best way ever is a soak in soapy water followed by a soapy steel wool. I just buy plain steel wools and charge it with dish detergent when I use it. We have little Asian stores in NZ where you can buy anything, for 12 we pay about $3, so it costs a lot less than those already soaped
This is great info. I’m gong to tell my mom about this for the stove. 🙂
Does that get rid of rust?
Magnificent job!!!
Thank you for such a great tip.
Ty this was exactly what I needed and simple
I want to buy a new set, how do I measure....? what do I measure to make sure I buy the right size...I will be buying on ebay so I need an answer as quickly as possible before it is taken off the block...please...thank you.
+Laurel Schmitz standard unit stove should be all the same.. 2 smalls 2 large?
All you should need to do is buy 2 small and 2 large for your brand of stove. Such as: Samsung, LG, Maytag, GE (General Electric), Kenmore, Whirlpool, Hot Point, Frigidaire, etc.
mine aren't so much grease stains but a bunch of different things gs baked on and has petrified or mineralized if that's the right word. I'll give this a go and see if it makes a fifference if not I'll have to buy a new ones.
The ones that were grimy like yours for me was the front 2 but I did them all , hey its worth a shot. While I was letting it work I raised the hood and cleaned off that was there to clean. Being an old fart dont know where I got the energy maybe it was from the banana smoothie. I will report back letting the result be known.
Git ‘er done! 💪🏻
how long do i have to let it sit??? and do i have to use the oils or lemon juice can i just use vinegar and baking soda
Does the steel wool scratch?