TIL about this tool, the Reinigungsschaber !
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it's amazing !!! Sorry, but I don't have the before picture, believe me after 6 years of usage, it was bad.
If you clean the top after every use, then it'll never get bad enough to need this thing. Just an FYI, if you'd rather not stare at encrusted burn residue for another 6 years.
If you clean the top after every use,
True, but: I don't wanna.
They should make tiny stovetop Roombas that look like the robots from Batteries Not Included
Fair point, but this is one of those "if a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing badly" situations where just waving a towel at it still helps prevent stuff getting out of hand.
Of course this is easiest with induction because you don't need to wait for stuff to cool at all
That’s called a paint scraper, my dude
But it's not for scraping paint. It's for cleaning the stovetop surface.
It looks like a razor with a handle?
Won't metal do damage / scratch a glass surface? Is it safe?
Depends on the hardness of the metal you would need a metal. These stoves are mostly aluminium oxide, which has a mohs hardness of 9 and steel is 4-8. I looked more into it and I found glass ceramic stoves have a mohs hardness of 6-7. So a very hard steel should be able to scratch it, but most steels including stainless should be fine.
Glass is harder than most metals.
It can, yeah. You have to be careful to press gently in the center of the blade and not put pressure on the corners which will gouge huge scratches into glass. I have one of these for cleaning my paint pallette and get double-duty out of it on oven cleaning day.
They make cleaning kits for these stove tops that typically come with a cheaper plastic version of the tool with a weaker metal razor. Still does the job well, but less scratching chance. Also usually comes with a fine-grain polishing cream and sponges to apply it with. The cream helps to buff out lighter scratches and remove some of the cooked on stuff.
It doesn't scratch the glass, even when applying quite some force. The blade dulls pretty fast, it probably doesn't have the hardness to damage the glass.
It's specifically called a [glass/ceramic] stove cleaning [blade/scraper]. I've used one a lot and it doesn't seem to do noticeable damage (glass stove tops need to be pretty tough anyways to handle regular cooking)
As long as you keep the blade flat against the glass it doesn't scratch. If you use the corner of the blade to scrape it will scratch.
Yes, it's pretty much just that. It comes with spare blades in the handle, and they are double sided ! Very useful, because they dull pretty fast.
It is!
When we had our electric oven I'd use a pastry cutter to scrape everything off
Note: pastry cutters may not look sharp but they are. Sliced my thumb open on one while putting dishes away and spent months regrowing my nail
Something wrong with your cutter! They shouldn't be sharp!
Possibly, though sliding your thumb over the edge pretty fast at an angle seems to end up causing the slice anyway. I regret not taking pictures during the healing process :(
Agree
using one as a scraper might serve to sharpen it actually, this cut could’ve been a veritable perfect storm
spent months regrowing my nail
Oof... I can relate to this...
TIL it’s not a thing everywhere. Thought it was as common as can openers or cooking spoons internationally!
Razor scrapers aren't a thing everywhere there are razors? Wierd.
You can just use a razor blade and vice grips. Comfier handle
A similar razorblade scraper came with my cooktop cleaning kit. But the liquid cleaner and scrubber almost makes it unneccary. Weiman brand.
I am not denying I have neglected regular maintenance of my cooking plates 😅
This is what amazon calls that cleaning kit if you want to look for it:
Weiman Cooktop and Stove Top Cleaner Kit - Glass Cook Top Cleaner and Polish 10 oz. Scrubbing Pad, Cleaning Tool, Razor, Scraper
Those scrapers are magic for glass cooktops.
If only I knew they existed earlier !
scrapping tool
I think scrapping wasn't what happened here.
Probably what happened was that scraps were scraped off.
It seems like a scrappy little scraper.
Oh man when that shit came off it must have been such a relief
Degreaser works quite well, too.
My grandfather has something similar but it’s brass (or maybe copper) on the the end. Swears by it for all kinds of things
Isn't copper cookware toxic if ot starts leeching copper into food for those with wilsons disease
Thanks for sharing.
Baking soda and vinegar do a hell of a job on your issue too
Oh, I tried that. It had negligible effects. I tried a bunch of different solutions, combination of chemicals, let soak overnight, etc.
This is the absolute proper tool for this job.
That said, everyone should know the different ways of cleaning the things.
Bar keepers Friend, for the equivalent oxalic acid/ddbsa cleaner in your area will remove dark carbon from most surfaces, especially when used with a magic eraser/melamine sponge
If you have a pot or a pan or something movable that is very burnt on, soaking it in an extremely dangerous solution of potassium hydroxide (lye) well absolutely remove all the organics. You just have to be sure to wear gloves and splash protection because it will blind you in a hot second.
Soaking rusty items in vinegar for a prolonged period of time will remove the rust, but you'll have to treat it pretty quickly to keep the rusr from coming back.
Literally blind forever?
I knew lye was dangerous but that sounds EXTREMELY dangerous.
AND it reacts with aluminum to create hydrogen!
yes, don't fuck around with corrosive chemicals. Strong acids or bases will destroy tissues with ease, especially if they're not protected by skin (which also gets dissolved but more slowly)
Treat it with what? An oil to protect the surface?
A super thin layer of food safe oil. Apply it, Buff it back off as much as possible than wash the pan.
If it's cast iron you can just re-season it.
I had no idea! Thank you! I keep this to clean my ceramic cast iron sink but had no idea that I could use this on my glass top stove and the burnt bottom of my pans!
I used vinegar to get the rust off of a bunch of (Pogs) Slammers that had gotten wet in my parents basement. It worked reasonably well on most of them.
If we're not talking about food safe applications crc evaporust is absolutely magical. But it will leave the surface dark which you then would need to buff back off.
thank you based pogchamp
Barkeeper’s Friend is a miracle, but people should know it’s incredibly abrasive and can debride enamelware. I ruined a pan’s outer finish because that didn’t occur to me, using it to get carbonisation off the bottom.
It’s brilliant for raw metal and glass cooktops, though. When I bought my house, the previous owners left a kit for the glass cooktop including the razor tool in your OP. I’m so grateful they did because I wouldn’t have known.
e: can’t spell