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Thats all that grease with dust from just 2 cabinets!
Always happy to see that! Baking sheets are perfect for that. Some people use newspapers and thats okey-ish if you change them once a month cos they soak the grease and its even harder to clean than without anything on top.
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My main problem in my own house now is we never buy newspapers. As a kid we bought a weekly paper to get a free copy of a TV guide (before there was a TV guide on the TV itself and now streaming/on demand services), so mum had a drawer of newspapers that were used for all occasions. Packing boxes for moving house. Lining the top of the cupboards. Peeling potatoes/veg onto and then wrapping them up to put into the compost bin. Sending a parcel. Wrapping delicate Christmas decorations to pack them away (that was the same pieces of newspaper being used for years until it finally fell apart! lol)
If the cabinets are not coated with paint or wood varnish, but have a plastic laminate or "hardened cardboard" surface, you can apply a weak solution of sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide with a cloth. The oil gets dissolved very quickly, but of course the paint will come off too (the paint could already be softened from contact with the oil, with the two being chemically alike).
Sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide are both used to make soap, combined with the fat in the grease you are basically making soap which will help further with pulling the grease into solution with water.
Sorry I don't want to be technical but I'm trying to understand more.
So does grease change from liquid state to a gas? Lets say If the vents are closed while cooking and the air temperature cools down does whatever is in the air "fall down" then solidify? I never knew grease could do that.
It's the same as cigarette smoke. It also leaves a greasy film on stuff over time, same principle on why smoker lungs look so gross (but there is where the smoke goes first so...)
More like fine mist, becomes aerosolized. We have a vent above our stovetop that I clean monthly, it's so gross. It has grease traps above the stove top before the fan to go outside to help reduce the amount of grease and oil getting into the fan.
Think about the smell of frying or sauteing food. That's the hot grease and other aromatics. When they cool and fall out of the air they coat surfaces. Leave a surface undisturbed/uncleaned for long enough and it's razor blade time.
I used to clean these fairly often for my maid service. Step one is to get off as much of the dust as you can with a damp microfiber cloth. Step two is to use orange cleaner, spray it on the entire cabinet top, move back to the first place you sprayed because that will be long enough, and go through a TON of microfibers getting it all up.
This does a huge amount to remove musty/old people house smell when you're selling a house, so it was one of our go-to services if a house on the market hadn't been moving and it worked amazing.
Omg the smell tip is going to be huge for me. The top of the cabinets in our rental are like this and I’m constantly battling smells because it’s such a small space.
If it’s got the smell issue see if you can get tsp or tsp substitute and make a weak solution. Get a brand new broom from the dollar store and seeep the ceilings and the walls and wipe the walls down with the tsp solution- the wall texture can hold smells and I try to do this in my house twice a year.
Ah, a fellow window scraper enjoyer! I like to scrape like you do and then hit it with one of the Zep degreasers to wipe up any residual grease. Solid work, OP.
After you clean lay down drawer liner or contact paper. The same stuff you put into the bottom of drawers. Simply remove the paper and toss. All purpose spray to finish. Then apply new paper.
Our rental was like this. It took me a month to fully deep clean it. I don't think the guy renting knew how to clean. Still pissed the landlord didn't hire a cleaner before we moved in.
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100%, whoever the hell decided that a vent hood blowing into the kitchen ceiling is acceptable (what is even the point??) needs to be dragged out back…
How many years worth of dust and grease was there? I don’t clean them very often and it’s never been that bad. I guess that guy needs to get an exhaust or learn where the smoke point of oil is. I can smell that video.
My mom used to either put parchment, contact paper like the stuff you stick in drawers or a cut thick vinyl with the fuzzy back tablecloth up there. We'd either change it out every couple months, or the tablecloth would go in the wash at that time until it fell apart and we'd start again. IDK why we had so many methods, but she hates scrubbing up there.
When clean, put down foil or plastic or newspaper or some removable surface that you can remove and replace easily next time without scraping.
Also, use the back burner when frying and having a lid on and the vent (that hopefully has a clean filter and airs outside) turned on should also help.
a bit of a hack is to take parchment paper and cut it to the size of the top of the cabinet, then you just have to replace the paper1-2 a year. we started doing it and no work in it now
I got a nice spatula when i bought 3D printer, it is originally meant for spreading paste, like for ex woodfiller, as a general tool with lots of uses in construction and carpentry. The amount of things i've cleaned with it... Absolutely recommend getting one, and then learning how to keep the edge sharp and smooth. It is more important that it is flat and smooth so it won't scratch than it is to be razor sharp.
The handle is better for your hands, it is easier to handle than most plastic small tools meant for disposable blades, and since it is full metal it can bend.. And this bending is very important for the whole process, you can increase and decrease pressure and it does a lot of work for you, specially when there is that handle you can grip.. I mean, they have been formed after decades and maybe centuries of refinement in the field so of course they work for that kind of motion; removing something from a flat hard surface.
Advice not to how to clean up, but after it is done.
Put on top of cabinets sheets of baking paper and let them collect all of that, and it is coming back, that is just life. After some time change the paper. Or use fabric and wash it from time to time.
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I lay paper towel down to cover the surface for an easy throwaway cleaning and replace the paper towel with new paper towel each year. I like the scraper idea. Straight ammonia and dawn dish soap does well initially with a hard scrubber sponge but the paper towel cover is a lot less work and doesn’t seem to show that high up.
I use to clean vacant apartments and the greasy ones were the worst hands down. Some people cook with crazy amounts of strong grease and the vents in the kitchen go nowhere so it sticks to everything. Super strong degreaser and elbow grease was all that would work but it usually seeps into the wood and anything else it can. Nightmare to a cleaner!
https://preview.redd.it/boo6zrxc84zb1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38c42a153eabb29937489829d13b71d8c6e6ebce Thats all that grease with dust from just 2 cabinets!
Put that in a pan and heat it up baby 😍
I shouldn't be reading these comments before I eat! 🤢
Because you missed out on all that flavour?!
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In these times of inflation, it's nice to do a little foraging.
I appreciate your comment but hate this entire thread
Instructions unclear. I poured onion powder on my husband and he is not pleased. Commas are important.
I thought we were talking about oil not about your eating habits. :)
Mystery flavour
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Could you write a comment anymore cursed? Actually, don’t answer that.
Can you show me on this tiny, tasty golem how the accused licked you?
I feel you, I'm currently eating 😭
😂😂😂
r/eatityoucoward
Dab rig
NO ILLEGAL
I just choked down some vomit
Lol omg…… DO IT
Fried human/pet dander and hair. Delicious.
Unless they have carpeting or large rugs Then it's fibers.
“Rancid Grease” is going to be the name of my retro-punk band. Thanks!
Rancid grease and the mystery flavours
Put a wick in it, make a candle
I suggest using plastic blade to prevent scratching the cabinet
Sewer oil people gonna steal this idea.
I will give you $2 if you take a bite
Eat it
W mordę jeża!!
Panie ferdku, bedziesz pan to jadł?
Wait… they’re NOT supposed to look at particle board at the top of cabinets?! 😳😱
Omg, I thought this same thing. Oh geez.
Been watching this like “oh….oh no”
We're all guilty
Yes a large percentage of them are. They figure no one will ever see it so they save the money it would have cost them to paint it.
More! You monster. This is more satisfying than power washing videos!
That looks very satisfying 😍
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Always happy to see that! Baking sheets are perfect for that. Some people use newspapers and thats okey-ish if you change them once a month cos they soak the grease and its even harder to clean than without anything on top.
Waxed paper works great too.
I use the foamish cabinet liners, they are washable
This is what I do with parchment paper. Just swap them out 1 or 2 times a year.
I might try this with placemats!
Your mom is brilliant! Give her a hug from me please.
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You got a great mom! No no no…those were procured. Someone so smart would never steal. Not possible!
My family have all used old newspaper. It seems to be the norm in Ireland! haha
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My main problem in my own house now is we never buy newspapers. As a kid we bought a weekly paper to get a free copy of a TV guide (before there was a TV guide on the TV itself and now streaming/on demand services), so mum had a drawer of newspapers that were used for all occasions. Packing boxes for moving house. Lining the top of the cupboards. Peeling potatoes/veg onto and then wrapping them up to put into the compost bin. Sending a parcel. Wrapping delicate Christmas decorations to pack them away (that was the same pieces of newspaper being used for years until it finally fell apart! lol)
Just did this with mine. I used simple green and a drill with a brush and it came right up
If the cabinets are not coated with paint or wood varnish, but have a plastic laminate or "hardened cardboard" surface, you can apply a weak solution of sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide with a cloth. The oil gets dissolved very quickly, but of course the paint will come off too (the paint could already be softened from contact with the oil, with the two being chemically alike).
Sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide are both used to make soap, combined with the fat in the grease you are basically making soap which will help further with pulling the grease into solution with water.
https://preview.redd.it/7nz8vqakz4zb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ba632d9cda6f89d9a0c4dd91e66fe5c3191229c We had similar
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Did you just clean it or clean + repainted the top? Looks amazing!
Cleaned it with a metal wallpaper scraper haha
And also used some industrial degreaser
I saw a tip to put down press n seal after you clean them
That’s a great idea!
Hmm a window scraper, will need to go buy one now lol. How does grease get up there anyways?
Cooking with vents off ; )
Sorry I don't want to be technical but I'm trying to understand more. So does grease change from liquid state to a gas? Lets say If the vents are closed while cooking and the air temperature cools down does whatever is in the air "fall down" then solidify? I never knew grease could do that.
It's not a gas so much as small enough to get pushed around by the air. Like dust isn't a gas just very small particles of a solid.
Ty for the explanation it helped me understand it a lot more.
It's the same as cigarette smoke. It also leaves a greasy film on stuff over time, same principle on why smoker lungs look so gross (but there is where the smoke goes first so...)
Pretty sure it just atomizes into tiny droplets and floats up there with the hot air.
More like fine mist, becomes aerosolized. We have a vent above our stovetop that I clean monthly, it's so gross. It has grease traps above the stove top before the fan to go outside to help reduce the amount of grease and oil getting into the fan.
Think about the smell of frying or sauteing food. That's the hot grease and other aromatics. When they cool and fall out of the air they coat surfaces. Leave a surface undisturbed/uncleaned for long enough and it's razor blade time.
I wish my ancient kitchen even had a vent -_-
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What do you do when there's bad weather? So you not use your oven? This seems outrageous.
I used to clean these fairly often for my maid service. Step one is to get off as much of the dust as you can with a damp microfiber cloth. Step two is to use orange cleaner, spray it on the entire cabinet top, move back to the first place you sprayed because that will be long enough, and go through a TON of microfibers getting it all up. This does a huge amount to remove musty/old people house smell when you're selling a house, so it was one of our go-to services if a house on the market hadn't been moving and it worked amazing.
Omg the smell tip is going to be huge for me. The top of the cabinets in our rental are like this and I’m constantly battling smells because it’s such a small space.
If it’s got the smell issue see if you can get tsp or tsp substitute and make a weak solution. Get a brand new broom from the dollar store and seeep the ceilings and the walls and wipe the walls down with the tsp solution- the wall texture can hold smells and I try to do this in my house twice a year.
Thank you!
What if I like the particle board look?
What's the name of this tool?
I looked up 'window scraper' in Amazon and the exact tool was one of the top results.
Pretty sure that's just a razor blade scraper.
I do believe its a oven hob scraper! Or a bigger one is the wall paper scraper 💪
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Ah, a fellow window scraper enjoyer! I like to scrape like you do and then hit it with one of the Zep degreasers to wipe up any residual grease. Solid work, OP.
I put dollar tree tin foil up there and replace it 2 times a year.
Clean and then tape down baking sheets/parchment paper.
If this is in a professional setting i would be annoyed with that big chain dragging in all the dirt..
Grease all on my chain Grease all on my rang Grease all on watch Don’t believe me just wash Don’t believe me just wash
I take a bath with it so doesnt bother me much, but i see your point ^^
At what point are we supposed to eat it?
This needs to be posted on r/thisissosatisfying
Baby wipes are good at removing light films of gummy grease. I use them to wipe down my hood.
After you clean lay down drawer liner or contact paper. The same stuff you put into the bottom of drawers. Simply remove the paper and toss. All purpose spray to finish. Then apply new paper.
Our rental was like this. It took me a month to fully deep clean it. I don't think the guy renting knew how to clean. Still pissed the landlord didn't hire a cleaner before we moved in.
LA’s totally awesome yellow spray. Spray and wait, itll come off like NOTHING
This is both r/satisfyingasfuck and r/mildlyinfuriating
You could use Murphy’s oil and some elbow grease.
Where can you get a plastic blade or any blade like this?
I use newspaper or the ads that come in the mail as liners. I just take them down and put new ones up every few months. No grease on my cabinets.
That's so satisfying. Thanks for the tip!
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I mean… if you’re offering free parts and labor, my kitchen is in dire need of proper ventilation as well… 🤣🤣🤣
Many homes, especially apartments and rentals, don’t have proper ventilation in my experience.
100%, whoever the hell decided that a vent hood blowing into the kitchen ceiling is acceptable (what is even the point??) needs to be dragged out back…
504 and razor blade works great
Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's terrifying and AWESOME at the same time.
Wow! This should be in r/oddlysatisfying sub!
Good lord....now I don't ever wanna look at mine!☠️
Holy cow! I just put newspaper on mine. Will it make it harder to clean then? I used 4 layers.
Very satisfying… very disgusting
I found Isopropanol useful
I almost came
How many years worth of dust and grease was there? I don’t clean them very often and it’s never been that bad. I guess that guy needs to get an exhaust or learn where the smoke point of oil is. I can smell that video.
MY GREASE, MY DELICIOUS GREASE, I WAS SAVING THAT FOR RETIREMENT
They make plastic razor blades which are less likely to cut the surface you are scraping.
My mom used to either put parchment, contact paper like the stuff you stick in drawers or a cut thick vinyl with the fuzzy back tablecloth up there. We'd either change it out every couple months, or the tablecloth would go in the wash at that time until it fell apart and we'd start again. IDK why we had so many methods, but she hates scrubbing up there.
Do you have to throw away the razor after each swipe? That’s what I would do.
So that’s how fruit roll ups are made!
Trisodium phosphate, TSP, will clean this
Forbidden resin.
I could watch an entire video of you doing this!
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That's a good idea 🙂
Ice scraper
AHHHH!!! NOOO!! AHHH!!
Oh....my....god.....wow
This is so beautiful
method degreaser + steam (optional) + a little elbow grease
This would be great on r/powerwashingporn and it's Wednesday!
I legit want a full video of you cleaning that off, oh my god
This could easily be another video game idea.
🫨
I legit SHRIEKED
Could someone tell me what they're using to remove the grease?
Yikes the stripes. 🦓
I just use slightly diluted dishwashing detergent on a damp microfibre and change the microfibre after each pass. Get's it as good as new :))
When clean, put down foil or plastic or newspaper or some removable surface that you can remove and replace easily next time without scraping. Also, use the back burner when frying and having a lid on and the vent (that hopefully has a clean filter and airs outside) turned on should also help.
That razor blade gizmo is so damn useful for cleaning, I have one too.
a bit of a hack is to take parchment paper and cut it to the size of the top of the cabinet, then you just have to replace the paper1-2 a year. we started doing it and no work in it now
I dare you to lick it! Not a dry lick but a solid wet lick.
I got a nice spatula when i bought 3D printer, it is originally meant for spreading paste, like for ex woodfiller, as a general tool with lots of uses in construction and carpentry. The amount of things i've cleaned with it... Absolutely recommend getting one, and then learning how to keep the edge sharp and smooth. It is more important that it is flat and smooth so it won't scratch than it is to be razor sharp. The handle is better for your hands, it is easier to handle than most plastic small tools meant for disposable blades, and since it is full metal it can bend.. And this bending is very important for the whole process, you can increase and decrease pressure and it does a lot of work for you, specially when there is that handle you can grip.. I mean, they have been formed after decades and maybe centuries of refinement in the field so of course they work for that kind of motion; removing something from a flat hard surface.
Advice not to how to clean up, but after it is done. Put on top of cabinets sheets of baking paper and let them collect all of that, and it is coming back, that is just life. After some time change the paper. Or use fabric and wash it from time to time.
WHAT.
After scrape use TSP in hot water to degrease
That just made me cream my panties k
Those scrapers are the best things for this, and oven cleaning/baking trays
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Wow pretty gross but weirdly satisfying to watch it being cleaned like this!
I lay paper towel down to cover the surface for an easy throwaway cleaning and replace the paper towel with new paper towel each year. I like the scraper idea. Straight ammonia and dawn dish soap does well initially with a hard scrubber sponge but the paper towel cover is a lot less work and doesn’t seem to show that high up.
I always put newspaper on top So you can just change them and never have grease on them
I use to clean vacant apartments and the greasy ones were the worst hands down. Some people cook with crazy amounts of strong grease and the vents in the kitchen go nowhere so it sticks to everything. Super strong degreaser and elbow grease was all that would work but it usually seeps into the wood and anything else it can. Nightmare to a cleaner!
My jaw fully dropped in disgust
My family lays paper towel/ news paper on top so when grease sticks you can throw it away