Please help me cure greasy, manky, sticky cupboards

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And thats it really!

I am ashamed to admit that while, on the surface, my kitchen looks clean (and the work surfaces and interiors etc are clean) I have wooden cupboard doors of shame!

Specifically above the cooker to the left and right. I do wipe them down, but I don't seem to be able to get rid of the gunk - most of which was there when we moved in 6 years ago and which I haven't really bothered about bar wiping down new mess, but now DS is growing and I have people round for coffee, I'd like to not have to shut them out of the kitchen.

What will remove this greasy sticky nightmare?

Cooking oil - might sound strange but it works and is kind to surfaces! The cooking oil dissolves the really sticky stubborn grease, and then you can use any normal de-greaser (multi-purpose cleaner, even washing-up liquid) to clean off the dissolved grease and cooking oil.

Right have done the cooker hood after a test patch to check for vanish removal (or not!).

I can safely report that Home Bargins own cream cleanser priced at 49p does the job beautifully followed by a bit of furniture polish just to bring up the shine.

Unfortunately, the cooker hood is now a slightly different colour to the cupboards beside it, so looks like I'm going to be doing cupboard cleaning for a while