Those aluminium rings around the gas burners on a gas hob - aaarrrggghhh

[hippiPOTTERami]

I had a new hob fitted two months ago. Despite frequent cleaning, the aluminium rings surrounding each gas burner has brown tarnished patches on it. I have tried every cleaner on the market, nothing will shift it.
Can anyone help please? Any suggestions, I am willing to try anything, I promised dh I would keep this hob looking nice, and already I am failing [sob]

why did you make that promise? doesn't metal get tarnished when it's heated up? what terrible thing will happen if they stay tarnished?

Have you tried the Astonish cream cleaner - you need to use a bit of elbow grease as well but it worked on mine - or try oven cleaner on them if that doesn't work?

Remove them and soak in hot water with ajax or bio washing powder then rub. Use Peek polish(Robert dyas ) to shine them up.

LOL bundle - I made the promise because I really really really wanted a new hob/oven package as part of our kitchen revamp. Nothing terrible will happen, but I don't like the way it looks. To add insult to injury - my mum has had the same gas hob for 5 years, cooks daily, and her rings are still sparkeling! (and when I asked her how she kept them so clean the answer was to wipe them immediately after cooking. Nope, immediately after cooking I eat dinner!)

Some great suggestions to try - thanks guys!

Mine never sparkled in the first place - are you sure hers are aluminium?

FWIW when the OvenU man came to do my oven he said if eh did the hob the rings would come up sparkling but I don't think he can have come across aluminium ones before - they came out worse than before

Those harsh green scouring pads will do quite a good job of shifting the brown bits after a good soak, but they will never sparkle - aluminium just doesn't. (IME & HO!)

HTH

Cif cream with bleach and scrub HARD with a scourer.

have you tried making a paste using bicarb?

I run a cleaning / supplies company - and I have to say the best way to get them clean - and we've seen some mingers ( think Student flats !!) is a strong solution of bio washing powder take them off - soak them while you get on with something else then a damn good rub down with a scourer !!!

lol

if you don't cook on it at all it will stay really shiny.

does anyone get the feeling that life is really too short for this kind of angst? I mean, you're not going to get cholera off it and you could actually be doing something you enjoy instead

yes yes yes but when it's your new cooker and your old one was really, really manky (not casting aspersions here hippi, obv just referring to myself ) it's somewhat disheartening when the shiny newness lasts approximately the length of time it takes to let a pan boil over .

i use wire wool and it gleams (i love to clean the oven)

freak sea!

Ovenpride. leave it overnight. good as new.

i know but it's so satisfying

bookthief - we are on the same wavelenght!
bundle, I know I know, but it is new, and I promised myself, and now it is raining and I have nothing else to do (dc are happily playing) so I thought I would tackle my hobrings....
At least in the chaos that is my house I can proudly say I have clean hobrings

Not sure what my mums ovenrighs are made out of - her cooker is a Smeg, so no doubt something posh and stainfree!

Actually bundle - you may be onto something regards the non-cooking, do you think dh will go for that one?

The metal disposable scoring pads have bicarbonate of soda and are by far the best I've found. If you scrub and leave the solution on for a while, it really does help

The OP has probably got their oven clean now.... 9 years later!!!

Don't put them in the dishwasher, I absolutely ruined mine. They stayed silver with scrubbing, but the dishwasher took all the silver off leaving a shitty matte grey colour.

I want to know the difference between the Aluminium burner and Brass burner.

Help I put my new gas rings in the dishwasher (just read afterwards that you shouldn’t wash them that way) & they are a dirty grey now, devasted...hubby doesn’t know yet that I have ruined them, what can I do to make them sparkle!!! Grateful for advice

I found making a paste with cream of tartar and water, and then using a brush to scrub the burners helped. Then rinsed and dried them. It didn’t take them quite back to as good as they were, but they were definitely much improved, and no longer had that awful black powdery residue on them.

I did this with oven pride.. Anyone know a way to get the silver shine back? Polish or anything

Break up a dishwasher tablet into your sink bowl and add 2-3” of hot water and soak the aluminium rings for about 20 minutes before using a dish scrubber. Also works on the black centre rings. Dishwasher tablets also work on cleaning the oven; just mash up a tablet with water to make a paste and rub over the surface. Requires some elbow grease to remove stubborn marks. Rinse clean.

Last November i got a brand spanking new and very expensive range cooker. It was not long before the aluminium rings started to look dirty. I soaked them in the sink with a dishwasher tablet. I do NOT recommend this practice as they reacted somehow and are now dull grey and very unattractive. Nothing i have tried has managed to bring them back to their former glory.