One of the worst things is the glass top on an induction stove! URGH!!! No matter how hard you try, something gets baked on that surface. Cleaning is a daily challenge. When I moved into my condo I replaced the stove because the glass top was so encrusted with debris I couldn't get it clean! They didn't even try. The new stove came with a 2 oz. bottle of cleaner looooog gone by now.
I found DAWN does a fairly good job and amazingly Bon Ami, which I once used to keep ferrotyping plates clean when I had a darkroom, does a decent job without scoring the glass.
After I recently burned spaghetti sauce in my Faberware stainless steel pot, I tried my go-to soap, Dawn. Not much came off. I remembered I had bought Mr. Clean CLEAN FREAK after reading an article in CONSUMER REPORTS that picked it as the best cleaner available. I had bought a bottle but wanted to use everything else I had up first.
What the heck! I grabbed the bottle and sprayed it in the pan. Then let it set a few minutes. Wiping with a nylon scrubber huge chunks lifted from the pan. A few scrubs more for a minute and most of it was gone. WOW! I remembered scrubbing similar burned food from the same pan with Comet and steel wool in what seemed like hours when I was a kid. My mother, then married life and now finally single, I am still using Faberware. The pan looks new.
CLEAN FREAK comes in a 16 oz. bottle and costs $6.49 on Amazon. It can exchange with refills in two scents. One interesting feature is the "squeeze." How you squeeze gives you a small, medium or bursts of spray. It's meant for countertops, tubs, toilets, stainless steel. But, as I found out, it can be used for much more. It uses a fancy alcohol mixture to do its magic.
When I discovered dried blood on my newest bedspread I kind of got upset. How it got there I'll never know. Since I'm on blood thinners I cut and bleed easily. So I grabbed CLEAN FREAK again and with a wet wash cloth, sprayed it on the blood, scrubbed a bit and it was gone. I mean 100% gone.
Finally, when I went into the studio to start painting I washed my water bin and a few brushes with Dawn. Dawn has been a great cleaner for me of brushes, my water containers and, if I move fast enough getting paint off my clothes.
Seeing the CLEAN FREAK bottle there I sprayed some in my palm and started scrubbing the brushes I had just cleaned again. As I started scrubbing the brushes in my palm, in no time the spray became dirty. I realized CLEAN FREAK was removing dried acrylic from the paint brush bristles. I don't know how much more dry paint it can remove but those brushes were noticably cleaner in just a few minutes.
I think folks there's a new cleaner we can use to keep our brushes cleaner. Will it remove dried paint on clothes? Stay tuned, I will report on that next. I'm just glad to hopefully need just one cleaner for the messes in my life!
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