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Post by nana on Mar 15, 2017 19:50:58 GMT -5
I had just put a smal pot of milk in the thermowell to warm it up to make yogurt. I usually heat it up to around 180* before cooling to the 110* for yogurt, and the longer you can keep it up around 180, the thicker the yogurt turns out. Keeping things warm is something the twell excels at, but just as I turned on the burner, there was a knock at the door and the fire chief stopped by to discuss the damage done a couple weeks ago when a big branch broke off a tree in our yard during a windstorm and punched a hole through the roof of the firemen's shed, and he said our insurance company had been in touch with him and he thinks he knows a guy who can take the rest of the tree down, so he was getting the estimate together to send to Allstate, but what with all the snow yesterday, it would probably be a while, and if you think it's kind of distracting to just read this paragraph, you can probably guess what happened to my pot of milk. Not just spilt. Boiled over and burned on. All over the bottom of the well. Soaking it with soapy rags did nothing. It is pretty much pure carbon.
Any ideas for removing it that would be easier than an hour or so of scrubbing with fine steel wool and less chemically harsh than Easy-Off?
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Post by mach12 on Mar 15, 2017 22:15:29 GMT -5
I had a similar mess on the burner pans of our electric range and happened to have a bottle of the Weber citrus based grill cleaner and it worked great. It might be worth trying in your T-well.
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Post by nana on Mar 17, 2017 17:48:57 GMT -5
All hail Mach12! I got a bottle of the Weber cleaner, poured a 1/4 cup or so in the bottom of the well, let it soak for two hours, and it scrubbed off in 20 minutes with the steel wool. Probably would have been quicker if not for the awkward positioning and need to avoid the pilot light in the middle. I didn't want to extinguish it because I didn't know how long it would take and I didn't want to be breathing in gas while hanging over the well scrubbing. All in all not too bad. And I think the cleaner will work well on the inside of my broiler box where the ineveitable spatters and sprays have burnt on as well. After all, it is made more for burnt on grease than protein, so the broiler box should be right up its alley. I was worried about the smell if I hadn't been able to get the well clean. I need to cook a corned beef in there tomorrow. Yeah, I know St. Pat's is today, but Saturday is better for us, and we're not Irish anyway!
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