Removing Baked Soot from Stainless Steel

[Janne]

You have not seen the state of our BBQ......
DLC ( Diamond Like Coating) consisting of Beef, chicken, pork, lobster, shrimp, halloumi,.....
Disgusting.
I always heat it up to 450 f for 10 minutes to sterilize it.

 

[saxonaxe]

Once you have got as much grot off as possible by scrubbing etc: you could try a trip to the gunshop and get some Hoppes No;9 which shifts hard carbon from gun bores. There might be a more modern solvent, I'm not sure, I use Hoppes. Not the cheapest solution by any means but if you have tried other methods painting it with Hoppes and letting it soak might help...expensive cure though..

 

[Janne]

I have already tried Hoppes, Winchester spray oil, Beretta Bore cleaner and Ballistol.
On the BBQ.

The abrasive kitchen thingies were the best so far....

 

[saxonaxe]

There you go Darryl of Sussex, so stand down on my suggestion and save your money....

 

[Darryl of Sussex]

There you go Darryl of Sussex, so stand down on my suggestion and save your money....

I have already tried Hoppes, Winchester spray oil, Beretta Bore cleaner and Ballistol.
On the BBQ.

The abrasive kitchen thingies were the best so far....

The thing is, accessing the ash chamber. This isn’t my stove, just an image to show the issue.

 

[santaman2000]

Caustic soda sounds good but will somebody correct me if I'm wrong; isn't basically what oven cleaner is? (the OP said he already tried that)

As for maintaining it once it's cleaned, I presume these stains/buildup are on the outside (away from the food side) The old Boy Scout trick was to coat the outside surface with soap or dishwashing liquid BEFORE using so the carbon wouldn't adhere.

 

[Darryl of Sussex]

Caustic soda sounds good but will somebody correct me if I'm wrong; isn't basically what oven cleaner is? (the OP said he already tried that)

As for maintaining it once it's cleaned, I presume these stains/buildup are on the outside (away from the food side) The old Boy Scout trick was to coat the outside surface with soap or dishwashing liquid BEFORE using so the carbon wouldn't adhere.

Yes, this image shows where the wood is placed and the mesh through which ash falls and collects ... before being baked into solid and fairly indestructible carbon.

I’m going to conduct an experiment on ways to clean it out upto ship-shape order.

 

[Robson Valley]

If you run a propane outdoor grill, run it empty at full heat for 5 minutes by the clock.
That vaporizes the gunk and ashes whatever won't blow off = easy brushing.

Use a wood scraper. Brass bristles are getting lodged in people's throats.
I'm having no problens with 5 of the 17 gassers that I have owned.
Three of those get run for a minimum of 3 hrs at a time.

 

[Toddy]

Best stuff I've found is to soak it in washing soda or biological stuff, and then scrub it with a green scourer and Astonish paste.
We used to use Ajax or Vim (the stuff used to scrub the steps) but the Astonish paste makes life easy, and no bleach splashes as you scrub.

We had a speaker at the Young Wives years ago, and he was advertising/selling Carbosolve. I mind it was surprisingly expensive and I didn't buy it, but he claimed that it would even de-gunk car exhausts
Don't know if it's still available, but might be worth a looksee. He demonstrated it on a well used chip pan, and it did come up shiny and looking new. Neat trick that for an old chip pan, which usually ended up cruded and caked with burnt on fat on the outside if not cleaned frequently. Many folks never bothered and the layers just grew thicker and thicker, a bit like an overdone coating on cast iron, iimmc.

M

p.s.
I've had a google, and lo and behold, the carbosolv stuff comes up as Fat tank cleaner.....

http://www.fattankinternational.com

 

[MrEd]

You can buy oxalic acid (the rhubarb leaves) that's used to remove rust stains from fabric.
Sometimes the chemist's have it in stock.

M

beekeepers shops will to, i use ot for my bees as a way of controlling varroa mites

 

[Toddy]

I did not know that
There you go; learn something new
Thank you

M

 

[Robson Valley]

If the muck is well and truely carbonized and baked on, you might as well use sandpapers.
Just washed a couple of old favorite pans. Crud on the bottoms is better than enamel!
I just can't see the need to grind that off to look the same in another year or two.

 

[Darryl of Sussex]

The thing is, the worst affected area is the hardest to get to, as it’s under a fixed wire mesh. Some sort of fluid.

Lidl are bound to have stove decarbonising acid for sale. It’ll be between the luminous scuba gear and bluetooth chainsaws.

 

[Woody girl]

Mother in laws spit followed by a quick lick of her tongue. Sorry awful joke... but then you didn't have my mother in law !

 

[Toddy]

Mother in laws spit followed by a quick lick of her tongue. Sorry awful joke... but then you didn't have my mother in law !

I never had a Mother in Law, she died before we were married, but I desperately hope that I'm a kind one when the time comes. I don't want to be the nightmare kind.

M

 

[MrEd]

The thing is, the worst affected area is the hardest to get to, as it’s under a fixed wire mesh. Some sort of fluid.

Lidl are bound to have stove decarbonising acid for sale. It’ll be between the luminous scuba gear and bluetooth chainsaws.

Soaking with a liquid and rinsing repeatedly will be the best option then, can you post a photo?

Another out the box option might be a home made electrolysis Bath

 

[Janne]

How much is a new one?

 

[Darryl of Sussex]

How much is a new one?

Turns out, after much soaking and swishing about with many different substances, that what was under the baked crud, was a bit of rust. Not a lot I can do about that.

As this Solostove1 was a used and relatively cheap eBay thing, it’s going to be my daypack/ number 2 stove (been looking at Lixada on Amazon too but slightly different thing) it’s not a big deal. I have a habit of cleaning and fixing everything before I put it away, so I avoid having to faff about like this.

I have had a chat with Solostove in the US and my suggestion of making their stoves with a removable mesh and base, has been passed on to product development. So some good has come from this.

Is the photo displaying?

 

[spandit]

I'd have just burnt that off - never going to get it shiny and what's the point for a cheap stove?

 

[Stew]

You could soak it in vinegar to get rid of he rust then probably put some stove paint on to prevent it rusting again. I'm sure you could paint it through the mesh.