Danielle's Homemade Products....Tip

I have lived in my place now for about 7 years. The stove in my place was there before I moved in and was not in the best shape. I have tried every product I could think of to remove the caked on burnt mess on my burners but haven't had much luck...well until recently.

I had ordered a product from a catalog that was designed to help clean grill grates and make life easier when it comes time to clean your grill. Unfortunately, the label on the product advised against using it on non-stick surfaces...figures because my gas grill that I bought last year has non-stick coating on the grates and I was not about to mess with that.

But then I got to thinking....I wonder what it would do to my yucky messy stove. Here is the before picture.



Now I will admit that some of the mess was my creation...the red marks are from making my candle melts right before hand, but otherwise the stove had just been scrubbed down. I hated how this looked all the time. So...I decided to try out my product....



Oh YEAH....I think I did a little dance when I saw the difference...so I kept scrubbing over the next couple of days and here is the way it looks now...completely free of burnt on mess...



I can not even begin to tell you how thrilled I was...

The product I bought came in a package of two stones. I think they were called Magic Stones. Here is a pic of the label from the opened package.



Now a bit of warning...this product is like a pumice stone. I used a microfiber rag to wipe up as I went along and it did stain the rag badly even after washing (I ended up throwing it away). It also was pretty harsh as the stone scrapes away at the gunk (yes, I said gunk) it slowly deteriorates similar to a Magic Eraser, but is gritty and sand like. This will scratch surfaces, but I was ok with the scratches compared to the gunk on my stove. It did a number on my hands as well and when I finished up the scrubbing on the second day I wore a pair of powder and latex free exam gloves (just like the doctors wear), but the stone quickly tore holes in the gloves so I ended up taking them off shortly afterwards. The stone did tear up my hands because of it...but a few nights of my all purpose hand salve with more gloves on has helped a lot with the damage from the stone and for me the clean stove was worth my hands being cracked and sore for a day or two afterwards. Two days later now and I only have one small cut left on my right pinky finger that is almost completely healed (YEAH to the all purpose salve).





These are my hands this morning after treating with my all purpose salve the last 2 nights. You can see the small pink mark on my pinky by the knuckle and the slight dry cracks on my pointer finger...very big improvement from the raw and an open cracks I had after finishing my stove. One more night of treatment should do the trick completely. Then I will have both nice soft uncracked hands and a nice clean stove....double bonus there.