Comments on: Everything You Wanted to Know About How to Clean Stove Drip Pans

By: StaC

StaC — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:30:16 +0000

I always use LA’s Awesome All-Purpose Cleaner from Dollar Tree on my drip pans! It gets them clean without any scrubbing. Just spray it on and let it sit for 10 minutes and they look brand new.
I also use this cleaner for just about everything, I’ve even done the cloth seats in my father-in-law’s car.

By: Alicia Hursley

Alicia Hursley — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:06:43 +0000

The baking soda and vinegar worked awesome for us! We just had our granite countertop polished and even though that looked awesome, it brought out just how badly we needed to deep clean our stove. I’m so grateful you shared your experiments so we didn’t have to go through all of them and could just skip to one that worked. Thank you so much for sharing.

By: Barbara Karr

Barbara Karr — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:12:49 +0000

In reply to Elisha. Elisha is right! They are not the same. Comet is too abrasive. Bartenders is formulated for using on aluminum sinks, ceramic.faucets,grills, and on and on.

By: Imchrisann

Imchrisann — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:11:53 +0000

I’d think that dampening the stove top drip pan THEN sprinle baking soda in order for it to stick to the sides of the pans then proceed.

By: Lya

Lya — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:15:39 +0000

In reply to Krista. baking soda plus sunflower oil will do the job nicely

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 19 May 2017 17:40:05 +0000

Thanks for doing this article! I hate that I can’t get my drip pans looking like shiny new. Here’s another use for the baking soda + vinegar elixir: Cleaning the oven window glass.

Make that same paste mixture and let it sit a while. Rub a little and all that baked on gunk comes right off. I was visiting my bachelor brother and did this trick on his toaster oven glass and it looked like new. When he saw it his mouth literally dropped open?

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Tue, 02 May 2017 03:16:02 +0000

In reply to Matthew. Well, I am glad you liked my experiment! Ha. I actually intend to try spray Oven Cleaner here very soon on mine, as they are terrible at the moment... Other people have suggested just putting them in your oven when you do an oven cleaning.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 May 2017 00:15:52 +0000

In reply to Katelyn Fagan.

Hey,

I love the thought put into this kind of experiment and I love that you tried some (at least to me) non-obvious solutions like WD-40.

I would love to see this experiment continued though and I feel it could be made definitive if you ran another one. You figured out Vinegar+Baking Soda+Essential Oil does the best job right? This is a mixture of a bunch of stuff including (as you’ve mentioned) rather expensive essential oils. This begs the question, who’s the real hero here?

The next time your drip pans get dirty, try: baking soda alone, vinegar alone, baking soda + vinegar, and then maybe water with the essential oils for the last one? I’m only curious about this because in chemistry class back in high school I remember baking soda and vinegar together make water and carbon dioxide, neither of which seem like great cleaners on their own.

Great post, hope you see this even though it’s years later haha.

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:44:04 +0000

In reply to CoyAxx.

Oh, I didn’t know you could buy drip pans from the Dollar Tree! Nice! However, I have to let you know that it is SO easy to fix mini blinds! Don’t waste your $4! You can buy one replacement blind, and spend 15 minutes (shorter time than going to the store) every time a blind gets slate broken and fix them, with the extra slats from the one your replaced. I wrote a post about how to do that – http://homecleaningfamily.com/2016/04/fix-mini-blinds-kids-destroyed/

By: CoyAxx

CoyAxx — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:13:09 +0000

You mentioned helping ppl save (precious & incredibly valuable) time, which for me is almost always the deciding factor. I have wasted enough time trying to get drip pans looking brand new again. Now i just buy new ones at the Dollar Tree ($1.00). Another option is the ready made foil inserts. I also no longer try to clean shower liners ($1 at the Dollar Tree), mini blinds ($4), and i pay the shop to do my oil changes. -first time here. enjoyed your post, thx!

By: Itaya

Itaya — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:42:55 +0000

I’ve had great results by cleaning my drip pans with SOS pads. Might give that a try and see if it works for you. 🙂

By: Kim H.

Kim H. — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 02:50:04 +0000

In reply to Kim H.. Nevermind! I asked a Home Depot rep and baking soda removes chrome plating. She said that if I use steel wool on the blackened pan it will be silver again. :-)

By: Kim H.

Kim H. — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:44:36 +0000

I just tried using Baking Soda to clean a drip pan and the pan turned black. Any idea why?

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:42:37 +0000

In reply to Elisha. Thank you!!

By: Elisha

Elisha — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:37:01 +0000

Bar keepers friend and COMET are defiantly NOT, NOT, NOT the same thing!!