How to clean cooker door glass and grease filter mat in extractor?

[onedaybaby]

Hi,

How do you clean your grease filter mat in the extractor hood? I've tried soapy water but it only removes the grease on the plastic edges.

I would also like to know how you clean your the glass of the oven. Its a self cleaning oven but I don't think I'm doing it right!

Don't know about the glass because I never attempt to clean it but I put my filter in the dishwasher.

wire wool for the glass, as it- is so caked on nothing else- will -shift it-- and I hate chemically stinky harsh cleaners

Oooh...must clarify; mine are the metal mesh sort of filters.

If they are very greasy, then they need a lot of detergent. Yours sound like wire gauze or mesh. If stainless, Flash or a low-cost GP cleaner will do it. You will need to brush it about across the sink and drainer then rinse off with hot water, if very dirty, repeat. Once the cleaner foams up freely, you know you have got most of the grease off. A plastic fibre or foam mat can be replaced with a new one more effectively, or you can slosh it around the sink with Flash.

Wire wool will scratch the glass, so will a scraper. A green nylon pan scourer will not do so much damage.

dissolve dishwasher tablet in a basin/bowl of hot water and use that instead of washing up liquid and great for greasy wall tiles too.

Thanks everyone, I have now have clean door glass as I tried the wire wool suggestion - I also sprayed it with cilit bang degreaser.

Bit worried I may have scratched the glass but too late now

I don't have a dishwasher and the mats are wire so are not replaceable. I will try the flash tomorrow on the filters as I haven't got any soda crystals.

had our oven about 4 years, glass sis standing up well to lots of wire wooling!

Also, for both use really really hot water and a microfibre cloth. And ideally, if you can time it right for the oven door, do it before it cools down completely from the self-cleaning process.