Is oven cleaner "safe" on cast iron?

[jmolinari]

Oven cleaner works wonders removing baked on grease on a stainless cooktops and enameled stuff. I'm wondering if there is any risk of permanent damage in using oven cleaner on cast iron cooking grates.

anyone know?

[Jmahl]

Oven cleaner works wonders removing baked on grease on a stainless cooktops and enameled stuff. I'm wondering if there is any risk of permanent damage in using oven cleaner on cast iron cooking grates.

anyone know?

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Should do no harm however I have found that if you put the grates in a self-cleaning oven on a shelf and run a short cycle they will come out like new. Give it a try.

Jmahl

[jmolinari]

Thanks, i dont think this oven has a self clean cycle, but that is a good idea.

[wax311]

Is this is a restaurant kitchen setting? If so, you could burn the grates to white-hot over your stove burners, and then a good wire grill brush should remove a lot, if not all of the carbon buildup.

[jmolinari]

Not commercial. Just my bluestar cooktop.

[Joe Blowe]

Your grates (and the grates on my RNB30) are porcelain enamel on cast iron -- oven cleaner will not harm them.

[jmolinari]

Interesting. They sure don't look like a normal porcelain cast iron! I guess the burners are the same way? thats good b/c i have grease splatters on the back burners.

The cooktop is great, but boy is it hard to keep clean.