Soda Crystals - my new best friend

[Posey]

Always have a bag in in the cupboard as they are great for unclogging bath plug hole.
Then a few weeks ago our washing machine had become a bit smelly, so following instructions on here, I did a hot wash with crystals. Ta-da...no more smelly machine.
And now, having finally decided the oven is well overdue a clean....looked at the horrid yucky shelves thinking "how are we going to get those clean?"
So put a large tray of soda crystals and boiling water on the side and put oven shelves in. I can see before my eyes the grease just dissolving.

Tis wonderful and soooo cheap too. What's not to love?

Any more soda crystal uses I should know about?

How did you find a tray big enough for your oven shelves? I hate cleaning oven shelves because I can't give them a good soak.

Would it good be for pots/pans with burned on grease I wonder?

I have a sort of tray in the bottom of my oven which fits the shelves in. It is also getting a jolly good clean.
You could try on pots and pans I'm sure.

if you have a home bargains near you then they are about 25-30p cheaper per bag in there than in the supermarket

I was about to say homebargains too.

Whereabouts in the supermarket are soda crystals? Ta.

I'm interested too. I bought some, because I buy everything anyone ever says is good but I'm yet to find a use fir them

Do you just shove em down the plug hole or dissolve them in water first? What about putting them down the loo, would it glean the drain a bit?

RecursiveMoon you find them near the washing powder, usually in a bag. Costs under £1.
Number44 To clear gunky plug holes, tip a good pile of it onto the plug hole then pour in, slowly, a kettle full of just boiled water. Never used them in the loo so couldn't say!

TheScottishPlayer
I ruined my pan using them but I did soak them for hours.

For burnt on pans you can use bio washing powder over night. It's a miracle!!

Powder first to cover bottom of pan quite thickly then hot water on top.

Can you use them to clean a dishwasher??

good for cleaning grease

very bad for aluminium.

i use bio powder for oven racks to,amazing stuff

im lucky i have a belfast or butler sink,im not sure and the racks fit into that,failing that cant you use the bath to soak them if your sinks not big enough or am i being really gross

Lakeland sell really big oven rack cleaning bowls if you want to splash out!

here www.lakeland.co.uk/20228/Oven-Rack-Soaking-Tray