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From: kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: re: cleaning stove exteriors
Message-ID: <429@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 20:31:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 20:31:41 1986
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> Our gas range has the usual (cheap) plastic knobs with little chrome rings.
> When grease gets on them, it often sticks and is difficult to get off.
> Steel wool is unacceptable since it will scratch and maim the knobs.
> Any suggestions for removing grease? 

I have an ancient Wedgewood gas stove.  I clean the exterior with two
things:  ammonia, and, for tough things, Rescue (non-SOS soap type pads
sold in Safeway, et al.)  Rescue doesn't scratch the chrome.  Actually,
the metal trim on my stove all seems to be chrome-plated copper, which
leads to my questions:  this is a really old stove, folks, and some of the
chrome has long since disappeared, leaving exposed copper.  There's a
detachable vent where the copper on the hard-to-get-to fins has turned
green, and standard copper cleaners are no help.  The permanently attached
insignia on the front of the stove is not only partly green, but has a
hard white totally unbudgeable substance on its surface.  Any ideas?

Karen