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Solvent for baked on cooking oil

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I have an old style pop corn popper and the cooking oil has hardened on the inside and outside and on the heating base. What is a good solvent to get this removed? I tried gasoline but that doesn't cut it.
 
Once you get the gasoline off from it just let it go it will not hurt anything like a cast iron fry pan just seasons it. I would want to think real hard about the use of gas for cleaning something I was going to eat off of.
 
The best thing to clean it with, Is Mr. Clean Clean Freak spray. Set it in the sink and spritz all over - let it set overnight... then spritz it all over again and let it set for an hour or two. Then take one of those Scotch Brite nylon scouring pads and it will scrub off fairly easily.

This stuff is THE BEST cleaner ever for kitchen grease and cooked-on oil/grease residue. Daughter turned me on to it. Great stuff!!

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You did not say what your old style popcorn popper is made of. If it is made of aluminum do not use oven cleaner. Some contain lye and will devour aluminum. Get some "Bar Keepers Friend". Available at Lowes, Walmart etc. That and some fine steel wool should remove it. This is what I use to remove baked on grease or oil on oven pans.
 



Potassium Hydroxide. I sell it by the 55 gal drum. It is what all restaurants everywhere use. More commonly called oven cleaner. Don't waste your money on fancy stuff, just go to the dollar store. As Deutz lover posted it is probably aluminum so don't leave it overnight, wear rubber gloves and work it a little now and then to move the softened stuff away. Have lemon juice handy in case you get it on your skin.
 
Well if you insist but why not leave it as is? It certainly isn't hurting anything, plus it adds a bit of ambiance to the popcorn making process I think.
 
(quoted from post at 22:13:48 02/06/22)
Making something after it was washed in gasoline? Thanks anyway.
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What da ya mean? Haven't you ever cleaned a carburetor in the dishwasher? Can you tell I'm not married? :lol:
 
Oven cleaner doesn't do anything to baked on food in the oven! The only way I have found to remove it is to scrape it off with a sharp wood chisel, well maybe dynamite!
 
(quoted from post at 13:25:31 02/06/22) Oven cleaner doesn't do anything to baked on food in the oven! The only way I have found to remove it is to scrape it off with a sharp wood chisel, well maybe dynamite!
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Well then rlp, you weren't using oven cleaner. If it is thick it takes longer. In restaurants they periodically remove the oven racks and soak them in 50-50 Oven cleaner solution.
 
Sand blast it if metal isn't thin, wore out. When my cast iron fry pans get real heavy coated, that is what I do. Just like new.
 
Cast iron that is heavily caked = Corn cob fire. This will burn out the hardened grease ??. We have used it to clean cast iron burner pan supports, grills.
 
I guess I know what oven cleaner is! It
doesn't work on baked on carbon! I tried
it on carbon on valves and combustion
chambers too! It does nothing!!! Only
wire wheels work!! And only with a lot of
effort and a little dynamite!
Next time on of my renters moves out, I
want you to come and clean the oven!!!
And show me how easy it is!
 
(quoted from post at 23:37:37 02/06/22) I guess I know what oven cleaner is! It
doesn't work on baked on carbon! I tried
it on carbon on valves and combustion
chambers too! It does nothing!!! Only
wire wheels work!! And only with a lot of
effort and a little dynamite!
Next time on of my renters moves out, I
want you to come and clean the oven!!!
And show me how easy it is!
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I will be happy to!! I have done it many times for restaurants. Send airline ticket and Hotel reservation.
 
I have valves that I soaked in oven
cleaner and oven cleaner will not touch
that baked on carbon. Same with carbon on
the renters stove. I even turned the oven
on after I put it on. All it did was make
it impossible to breathe without burning
your lungs out! Next time I find an
exhaust valve with baked on carbon I will
make a video and prove that I'm right!!!!
 
(quoted from post at 15:29:50 02/07/22) I have valves that I soaked in oven
cleaner and oven cleaner will not touch
that baked on carbon. Same with carbon on
the renters stove. I even turned the oven
on after I put it on. All it did was make
it impossible to breathe without burning
your lungs out! Next time I find an
exhaust valve with baked on carbon I will
make a video and prove that I'm right!!!!
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Rlp, The OP was posting about carbonized vegetable oil not carbonized petroleum oil which is a tougher challenge. Still the Dollar store oven cleaner is the weapon of choice and recommended regularly by many YTers for the toughest degreasing jobs, including burned on petroleum oil and grease.
 
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