How To Clean AGA Hot Plate Lids - Chrome Domes and Lid Liners
List of Steps
Step 1
We first remove the grease on the enamel of the lid using a glass scraper with a sharp blade. So if the AGA is an AGA Deluxe, that is it has Chrome Domes, then we will clean the enamel strip around the lid using the scraper. You need to ensure you don't scrape downwards as you may dig into the enamel on the AGA top. You need to scrape in a horizontal pattern. If the AGA is an AGA Standard or the AGA Classic, or an AGA with enamel lids rather than chrome (it's an option to have enamel domes on new AGAs), then you would scrape the whole lid with the glass scraper.
Step 2
Next we use Astonish Oven and Grill paste cleaner (in a pot). We mix water up with the paste so that it is solution and then using a completely wet through microfibre cloth we wipe the solution over the AGA lid. You need to give it some effort. We leave for a bit but not so long for it to go dry. We wipe it off with a dry cloth and buff it up. The wet microfibre cloth should have enough to remove all the grease. You may have to repeat on some areas.
We may also use The Pink Stuff cleaning paste in solution if we haven't got the Astonish paste. It is a similar product and gives similar results. I personally prefer the Astonish paste and will use it when I can when out cleaning.
Step 3
To clean the handle on the lids we remove it and then put it into our dip tank in our OvenGleamers van. We rinse it off and dry it and comes up looking perfect. You can take it off and put it in your dishwasher or just clean it in washing up water.
Do you need to worry about scratching your AGA Chrome Domes?
If your AGA is old and the chrome domes are already scratched then you may not to have to worry too much about this. Just realise that any scourer will scratch the Chrome Domes. Also Astonish or The Pink Stuff paste applied with no water on a dry cloth is very abrasive. The wet microfibre method and the product in solution is best for non scratch cleaning. So if your AGA is relatively new or, like my AGA at home, you've managed to keep the AGA lids scratch free you need to just use the microfibre method. See the picture of my AGA lids. The AGA was a reconditioned AGA we purchased in 2007.
We have managed to keep ours looking this good in over 14 years of ownership by not using any abrasives on the lids, using Chef Pads to product them and not allowing our cleaner to clean them!
OvenGleamers can replace your chrome domes for brand new ones - contact us and find out how.
Here are my AGA lids on my 30 Amp AGA after I last professionally cleaned it:
How To clean the AGA Inner Lids
We clean the inner lids when the AGA is cold and we use Soap Pads such as a Brillo pad. It is hard work to get all the dirt off. If you have been frying eggs on your simmering plate you may have problems removing the carbonised egg yoke.
For really dirty inner lids we scale up the scouring action by using a steel scourer and/or a glass scraper, dragging it downwards to remove the dirt. And then we use a soap pad to remove the scratches.
If you have just some grease on your inner lids soapy water or a wet microfibre cloth and Astonish paste will probably remove it.
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