Ladies: need your help to identify what I need and where to buy it.

Steve Clayton

Steve Clayton

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I'm doing supper; boat is nice and warm with the Webasto 5000 on max.

Oven is on for the home made (by me) filo pastry chicken and mushroom en croute, with Egyptian new potatoes, and a side dish of peppers, red onions and courgettes with extra virgin olive oil, balsamic and mixed herbs.

SWMBO says the oven is smelling (a bit) and needs cleaning - (that comment, by the way, was an order, not just a throwaway comment)

Now I've heard of these bags where you put all the oven bits in, add some sort of cleaning solution, seal and leave for a few hours:

so what are they called and where do I get one (maybe 2) from?????
 
You won't get far assuming ladies are the ones with the answer!

It's amonia that goes in the bag. No idea what they are called.
 
lustyd said:
You won't get far assuming ladies are the ones with the answer!
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On an aside I see you are in Reading.

What's good about Reading - Clas Ohlson, Bina Indian restaurant (Prospect Street), Costco

What's bad about Reading - IDR, traffic jams and through the roof car parking charges (God forbid it ever gets City status)
 
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nimbusgb said:
http://www.ovenpride.com/
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A "thankyou" for the link and supplementary thanks to West Wittering for a link to the same product.

Small world; (re your bio) I knew "Nimbus" in the mid '60's as a performance sailplane (Swiss made IIRC). One of the first in the UK was privately owned by Einar......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Enevoldson


.... which he kept at Moonrakers GC at RAF Upavon and I was priviledged to be permitted to take up. Note the reference to test pilot for Hunters. Lightenings and Javelins' in 66/67; this is when he was on an exchange tour at Boscombe Down and a few Moonrakers members were invited to meet the squadron and tour the hangared jets; very memorable.
 
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lustyd said:
You won't get far assuming ladies are the ones with the answer!

It's amonia that goes in the bag. No idea what they are called.
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The one I have used is sodium hydroxide not ammonia - very nasty, corrosive, attacks hands, strips paint etc., take great care. Very effective!
You may as well use a bottle of cheap drain cleaner and any heavy plastic bag!
 
Caustic soda ( ammonium hydroxide) is what you need, buy it at the £ shop in crystalline form dissolve in water and leave carboned up items to soak, the longer the better.
When I was a lad my dad used to fill a plastic dustbin with it and leave all the oven bits in it when we went on holiday, when we came home, after a quick rinse they were like new.
 
Steve Clayton said:
On an aside I see you are in Reading.

What's good about Reading - Clas Ohlson, Bina Indian restaurant (Prospect Street), Costco

What's bad about Reading - IDR, traffic jams and through the roof car parking charges (God forbid it ever gets City status)
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You found more good than I'd have expected. I have just one, and it's that Reading is easy to travel from to other places!
 
WestWittering said:
Here is link to the things you are after :

http://www.allaboutyou.com/ghi/home...aners/review-of-oven-pride-oven-cleaner-45364

There is a link to stockists on the website, but I haven't looked at it. Otherwise, Lakeland will have something I am sure.

Good luck - I hate cleaning the oven - would rather change an impeller myself :roll eyes:

Di
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Lakeland Oven Mate is BRILLIANT at cleaning really dirty ovens and wire grilles etc. Not sure about the bag idea, as OM has to be brushed-on then left an hour or more, then scrubbed-off. But it is brilliant.
And I'm a male-who-hates-oven-cleaning.
£7.99 for a bottle, will do several really dirty ovens - I should know!!;)
 
Right on the money. Ammonia. Great. Its the fumes that clean not the liquid. (DONT PUT IN OVEN) take out those crusty steel trays put some ammonia into a bag seal it and leave it outside. Come back 24 hours later and a quick wipe down and Bobs your uncle clean like new.

Just for the record. To clean an oven properly allow up to 9 hours. My SD wanted a new oven the cost was crazy Mum cleaned it. I came on board and said 'so you bought a new oven then', scored big brownie points with Mother that day. Detailed to perfection.
 
Jamesuk said:
Right on the money. Ammonia. Great. Its the fumes that clean not the liquid. (DONT PUT IN OVEN) take out those crusty steel trays put some ammonia into a bag seal it and leave it outside. Come back 24 hours later and a quick wipe down and Bobs your uncle clean like new.

Just for the record. To clean an oven properly allow up to 9 hours. My SD wanted a new oven the cost was crazy Mum cleaned it. I came on board and said 'so you bought a new oven then', scored big brownie points with Mother that day. Detailed to perfection.
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Mums eh - got to love 'em! I'll try ammonia & wrap the shelves in a carrier bag - presumably the bag is to stop the chemicals drying and not working. Most of the products I have tried in the past promise a lot and deliver a little. That is why I hate cleaning the oven - it takes hours of elbow grease!

On the other hand, you could always install an nice Aga - very low maintenance - just wipe the outside clean & the crud on the inside just cremates itself eventually to charcoal... bit heavy though & don't know where you would fit an oil tank. But the boat would be toasty warm & your kit would dry out nicely....

Dianne
 
Steve Clayton said:
A "thankyou" for the link and supplementary thanks to West Wittering for a link to the same product.

Small world; (re your bio) I knew "Nimbus" in the mid '60's as a performance sailplane (Swiss made IIRC). One of the first in the UK was privately owned by Einar......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Enevoldson

.... which he kept at Moonrakers GC at RAF Upavon and I was priviledged to be permitted to take up. Note the reference to test pilot for Hunters. Lightenings and Javelins' in 66/67; this is when he was on an exchange tour at Boscombe Down and a few Moonrakers members were invited to meet the squadron and tour the hangared jets; very memorable.
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The name as a sailplane had a 2nd life when Klaus Hollinghaus of Schempp-Hirth applied it to his open class supership series. Mine was a 3 turbo ( self sustainer ) callsign 'Golf Bravo' and an L/D around 60 with clean wings and the 25.5m tip extensions on.
 
BlueChip said:
Caustic soda ( ammonium hydroxide) is what you need, buy it at the £ shop in crystalline form dissolve in water and leave carboned up items to soak, the longer the better.
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Caustic soda is SODIUM hydroxide - commonly sold as drain cleaner in pellet form. Handle with great care.
The one is crystal form is washing soda - definitely not up to the job.
AMMONIUM hydroxide is a liquid, often referred to just as ammonia or liquid ammonia. I wouldn't have thought it would do an oven but I haven't tried it.
 
WestWittering said:
On the other hand, you could always install an nice Aga - very low maintenance - just wipe the outside clean & the crud on the inside just cremates itself eventually to charcoal... bit heavy though & don't know where you would fit an oil tank. But the boat would be toasty warm & your kit would dry out nicely....

Dianne
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We once viewed an old ketch "Marguerite Explorer" with the idea of buying her as a liveaboard... she had a Rayburn in the galley!
 
sailorgirl said:
We once viewed an old ketch "Marguerite Explorer" with the idea of buying her as a liveaboard... she had a Rayburn in the galley!
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That would be my idea of heaven!! Could you imagine, helming in the wind & rain, with the aroma of slow-cooked lamb shanks wafting up to the cockpit, knowing they weren't going to burn and would be ready when you were!

Di
 
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