to ask if any clever mnetters can help?

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We have a v.oldfashioned cooker that was left by the previous owners of our house. It is in perfect working order but the rings around the burner that support the pan are covered in burnt on food. It has obviously been repeatedly burnt on over a long time as it is stuck like cement and a pan scourer won't touch it. I have managed to scrape some of it off with a knife but it took forever and I am now looking to either buy new rings or an extra powerful cleaner that will burn it off.
I have been looking on Google and can't find anywhere that sells the replacement rings. If I search for hob rings it just comes up with the electric cooker sort and I can't think what else you would call them. Can any of you clever people on here help. Or do you know of any super duper powerful cleaner that will shot blast the buggers?

What is the make and model? And what would Kim and Aggies use?

Have you tried some sort of lemon and bicarbonate paste?

Or perhaps a tiny bit of nitromorse...though that might be a bit much....

Could you try Oven Pride? Have heard wonderful things about it and its really simple and non labour intensive

When we moved into our house we paid for someone to clean the cooker. It wasn't very expensive and he managed to make it all shine. Definately worth the money (I think we paid about £80 for a range cooker with 2 ovens, a grill and 5 rings.

try leaving a paste of biological washing powder on it for a couple of hours. then use some ajax on it.

the previous tenants in this house clearly never cleaned their kitchen. It took me about 10 hours to scrub layers of grime off everything. Everytime I scrubbed there was another layer of grease underneath. Eurgh. What made it owrse was that the family were Sri Lankan, so everything smelt of old curry.

Bicarbonate of soda- mixed with lemon to make a paste, lay it on reaaaaaaly thick, about an inch and cover in plastic over night

should work a treat :)

I second Oven Pride or any high-strength grill cleaner/barbecue cleaner with plenty of ammonia going on. You may have to do repeat the exercise several times if it's really thick and burnt on.

I thrid oven pride, its amazing!

oven mate from Lakeland rescued an oven I thought was beyond help

Oven Pride or Cif?

if you just leave it long enough eventually you will stop seeing it and it is no longer a problem. i apply method this to many areas of my house

I would go with the bio washing powder method. Always worked for me.

use dishwasher tablets. they dissolve everything. put loads in a bucket with water and soak them.

Thanks guys. I will be working my way through your ideas starting with bits I've got in already and will report back what (if anything) works - they are really bad!

I did my mum's revolting rings around the burner with oven pride this summer and they came up beautifully. I don't think she had cleaned them for years.

It's magic stuff and the best bit is that the shelves and tops off the hob sit in gunk in a bag overnight and you don't have to do much at all.