How to clean your greasy stovetop and make it look sparkling new using ingredients you already have in the pantry
- Mama Mila shares her stove cleaning hack
- She uses pantry items including lemon and baking soda
A cleaning and organising queen has shared her simple method for making a greasy stovetop shine like new by using some basic pantry staples.
Chantel Mila, who goes by Mama Mila online, revealed how she expertly cleans her dirty stove in five easy steps.
The Melbourne mum-of-two cleaned every nook and cranny including grates and burners on her stove using boiling water, baking soda, lemon and dishwashing liquid.
Chantel starts by removing the stove grates and leaving them to soak in hot soapy water to soften up the stubborn grease.
She also soaks the burners in a mixture of half a cup of baking soda, a segmented lemon and boiling water for an hour.
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Chantel Mila, also known as Mama Mila online, has shared her five-step hack for making a greasy stove look like new again in five simple steps
Before and after: The Melbourne mum-of-two cleaned every nook and cranny including grates and burners on her stove using boiling water, baking soda, lemon and dishwashing liquid
Mama Mila: How to make your greasy stove look like new again
Mixing together one cup of baking soda, a third of a cup of dishwashing detergent, Chantel makes her own scrubbing paste.
‘This mix can be used on your stovetop and all around your home to rid tough grease,’ she said as she used a steel brush to clean the hard-to-reach areas.
‘Use the same mix on your burners with steel wool to rid burnt marks.’
Finally, she washed and rinses the burners and grates with ease after the soaking loosened the build-up of grime and reassembled the stove.
Chantel shared the stove cleaning hack in an online video across her popular social media channels racking up a combined 543,000 views.
Mixing together one cup of baking soda, a third of a cup of dishwashing detergent, Chantel makes her own scrubbing paste
Finally, she washed and rinses the burners and grates with ease after the soaking loosened the build-up of grime and reassembled the stove
‘Wow!! That scrubbing at the end to remove the built up grime. I must try this now,’ one woman commented.
‘You have inspired me to clean my stove! It desperately needs it,’ another wrote.
‘Perfect…have been looking for this kind of solutions for months,’ a third replied.
Previously, Chantel revealed her ‘go-to’ hack for giving her oven a ‘quick refresh’ between deep cleans without using any harsh chemicals.
She heated up the oven with a tray filled with water and lemons and used a sprinkle of bi-carb soda to cut through stubborn grime.
The Melbourne mum-of-two sliced up one lemon and placed the slices in a heat-proof bowl with water.
Before and after: Chantel shared her chemical-free oven cleaning hack. She heated up an oven with a tray of water and lemons and used a sprinkle of bi-carb soda to cut through grime
She sliced up one lemon and placed the slices in a heat-proof bowl with water. She put the bowl into the preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes or until steamy
She put the bowl into the preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes or until steamy.
She said the steam will soften the build up of dirt while the citric acid in the lemons held to ‘cut through grease’.
Chantel lets the oven cool until it is warm and sprinkles baking soda over the surface to ‘make scrubbing easy’.
She dips a microfibre cloth into the lemon water once it has cooled and wipes away the greasy grime with ease.
The cleaning and organising whizz shared the hack in a video to her popular social media pages which quickly drew in more than 411,000 views and a string of thankful comments from fans.
‘Love this tip. I hate cleaning ovens. Mine really needs doing,’ one mum said.
Chantel lets the oven cool until it is just warm and sprinkles baking soda over the surface to ‘make scrubbing easy’ then easily wipes away the grime with a cloth
‘I have to do this after this weeks holiday!’ another added.
‘How often do you deep clean because your oven is spotless?’ asked a third to which Chantel replied: ‘I deep clean about every quarter (four times a year) and then this process in between.’
For deeper cleans, Chantel said she uses her homemade ‘power paste’ which can also be used in bathrooms and other areas of the kitchen.
She mixes one cup of baking soda with a third of a cup of dish soap and a third of a cup of water.
The mum also adds a few drops of essential oil to make her home smell amazing but said this was an optional ingredient.
Chantel stirs to make a paste then pours the mix into an airtight squeeze bottle.
‘This mix is so powerful at removing tough stains and limescale,’ she explained adding it has great ‘scrubbing power’ and is perfect for areas that ‘need a little more elbow grease’.
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