Oh I know that one only too well, my OH is a refrigeration engineer, you have no idea how hard it is feigning interest every night

It is a wood burning stove I was asking about, I'll give it a wipe with some newspaper and await with great interest J & C's OH's reply before I go at it with the oven cleaner

Oh I know the feeling well!

Well I bet you are all waiting with bated breath for the answer..............dun dun dun!!!

I wish I had never asked! Lol, ok a quick summary of a looooong conversation - First of all it's a cast clear ceramic (whatever that is), not glass. He says really the only reason not to use household cleaners is that they leave a layer of chemicals on the glass that actually attracts the soot and burns it into the glass, making the issue worse and worse over time.

Sometimes this can also create tar residues in the flue itself meaning you will need to sweep the chimney more often and might end up with blockages. If your flue is concrete rather than steel this is a serious issue. Also, household cleaners are often highly flammable and do not react well to the intense heat inside the stove. Use of corrosive materials in certain stoves (cast iron?) might also void your warranty should the parts rust.

The best thing to use if you don't want to buy specialist stove cleaner is the ash itself (??) with a bit of newspaper, wire wool, or a bit of vinegar.

Burning wet or green wood is the most common cause of sooty buildup on the door, the best cure is preventation by only burning aged and dried wood.

I'm off for a lie down after that!!!

Annette, well done! I think you did well to get that all down so precisely and succinctly

Brilliant, tell your OH, thank you from me and to you too for taking the time to post.

Guess what I'll be doing this afternoon

We do get seasoned wood, but there is the occasional load that's gotten a bit damp.

Teehee thanks that was a very short summary of what I remembered, bless him though he was loving the fact that we were discussing his business

No problems

I think after all that you'll need to post a pic of the clean stove!!!

Yeah, eddie gets like that if I ask a fridge question for someone, but to be fair, i'm probably the same with dogs and hen's

Ahem [clears throat and smiles winningly], as your OH is a refrigeration engineer do you think he could advise me regarding the running temperature of Pereg's freezer?

Only even on the minimum [ie least cold] setting the thing is still runnning at -30°C...

Thanks!

I have a 17 year old AEG Competence cooker with a ceramic top and double glass door main oven.
I clean both with Jif and a green Scotch Pad scourer,finish with clean water and washing up liquid and buff with a dry cloth. They are both almost as good as new on spite of being used practically every day.

Right, i think this is his advice.

if your freezer is at -30 C...it's waaay to cold and you'll be using up a lot of electricity keeping it at that, normal freezing temp is between -18 and -20 C which is 0 F. If you have a chest freezer it might be your " fast freeze" button is on, ( orange light will be on ) this will keep your freezer running and running and it won't be switching off once it's down to temp. If there's a dial on the freezer they usually are set to the middle setting, if there's a digital display you press "set" and it should show you what temp the freezer is running at and you can change using the same button.

What's most amazing is that i knew the normal running temp of a freezer all on my own ! just shows you, some of his waffle does go in

Nice clean stove

I did do a before and after then realised I hadn't put the memory chip in the camera