welcome back to Andrea Jean cleaning today we are going to be cleaning my
stove top grates here look at this that's disgusting if you missed any of
my last videos actually showed you how to clean your stove top with hydrogen
peroxide baking soda and Don so I will have that video linked in the
description box below if you're looking for ways to do that it's all about the
oven these days but look at how dirty these are this is like this when we
moved in two years ago and I just haven't taken the time to really scrub
and that sort of thing because you know I got three kids one on the way
priorities right so let me show you the things that we're going to be working
with here so over here I just bought this at the Dollar Tree I got some
ammonia with lemon so we're gonna compare here whether the ammonia works
better or the white vinegar works better so half of the oven rack I will do with
ammonia and the other half here I'm going to be doing with vinegar and we're
gonna get it all set up here and then let it sit overnight I know many of you
have smaller racks where you could use ziplock bags to put them in mine are
very large as you can see here so what I'm going to be using are these trash
bags so one for vinegar one for the ammonia I got some gloves here just to
protect my hands and that sort of thing when we're done we're just going to wipe
everything down tomorrow morning with these little pads here just pick those
up at the Dollar Tree as well I got a little marker here so that I could put
ammonia in one bottle and then vinegar in the other and I'll just write it here
so that I can differentiate so these are the supplies that we are gonna be
working with here super cheap you probably have a lot of these things
laying around your home already and let's just see which product works
better for getting these nice and shiny and see if we can get them looking like
well like this one right here that would be nice huh alright let's get it prep
and make sure you stay until the end because we do have a special surprise we
have a product that I have not yet shown here that I actually does a better job
my mother-in-law makes a very brief appearance as well and my husband it
chips in because we are all about teamwork over here now I did look up
whether ammonia was harmful during pregnancy and there was nothing to
indicate otherwise I just try not you inhale it deeply or you know keep
the bank open that long the smell isn't too terrible I'll talk about that here
very briefly but there's nothing to indicate that I could not be around
ammonia now you could use a funnel if you are well equipped to have one I
didn't have one but I got pretty lucky here by just pouring it directly into
these spray bottles now I wanted to be sure to get the solution very liberally
all over each of the great so you're gonna see me spray here I want to make
sure that they were soaking really good if you are looking for some additional
motivation if it comes to cleaning I have a whole video and dedicated to
cleaning grout I do three experiments and I show you the best and fastest way
to do that I also have a video related to mattress cleaning to freshen up and
deodorize your mattress and tons of videos related to other household
cleaning oven racks killing germs during the the reign of The Cove advice right
now so all that's going to be linked in the description box below
okay got the grates all in their respective bags we have the ammonia one
here and then over here we got the vinegar one so I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to set these in my garage overnight and I'll meet you back here in
the morning to see how everything turned out now to spice things up and try a
little experiment here I'm going to spray some of this ammonia directly on
some of these stubborn spots and see how it does so I'm just going to sit for a
little bit and see if that's gonna help me get these last bit of grease stains
up if you watch that last video you'll see how it was really able to get some
of this up we get some hard stuck on stuff here but if you look over here
this is the ammonia with lemon but it says that you can use it on tubs shower
stalls sinks and toilets stove tops countertops cabinets sinks appliances
cleans walls trash cans woodwork doorknobs and furniture and to be honest
I'm not hating the smell of this I know that's a little bit crazy I don't know
if it kind of has the lemon zest to it but let's just let this sit for it's
2:18 now let's let it sit - like 2:30 and then we'll see if we can get this up
it is 2:30 now so let's go ahead and see where we are at here I'm just using this
Dollar Tree brush
okay so that got a little bit of this crease up but not any of these big ones
right here so still working on finding a solution that's not gonna scratch up my
surface my stove my stove top surface here so that's a little bit of a bummer
maybe if I had left it on there longer but we'll see I know it's the next day
it's actually been over 24 hours so these babies have been soaking good we
got the ammonia rack here err great and then back there I have the vinegar one
now I'm just gonna go ahead and grab some of my cloves here and let's see
what happens
so this rack this grate is the one that was covered in the ammonia and you saw
in the beginning Clips how I made sure that it was completely doused in there
and it was sitting on a long time now it is coming off but the really burnt end
stuff that I was hoping for is not and I'm using both sides of the sponge here
I'm using the more smooth side and the coarse side and to be honest I'm not
super impressed I have watched videos on this and it
just melted away but maybe it's just my racks maybe it was just the video I'm
not sure what the problem is but I'm not super impressed but we're gonna take a
moment here and really scan the rack to see how much of a difference it made and
then we will move on to the vinegar
let's see how the vinegar fared here still seeing a ton of burnt done grease
oh yeah not super impressed with the vinegar either let's do a side-by-side
we got the vinegar on the right and we got the ammonia on the left and it still
doesn't look great I mean it's maybe a tad bit better maybe
like 10% better but that's about it to say I was very disappointed so my
mother-in-law was over visiting and she said well let's just try a little baking
soda to add some coarseness and let's get some really good elbow grease going
here so she scrubbed and she scrubbed and she scrubbed and what we found here
this worked better than the ammonia and the vinegar my husband also got into
this here he took a stab at it and you're gonna see here in the next couple
of clips that he put some elbow grease in as well and I'll show you a final
product here in a second and be sure that you check out those additional
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husband was working away on the superfast time-lapse let's see what the
result was
so it's looking a lot better and he just did the left side here he left the right
side but that took over 40 minutes for him to do that with the baking soda and
the elbow grease so it did make a difference a lot of this is contingent
upon how much time you want to put into it but good old baking soda