So I know that if you work in food at Target, you know what the oven degreaser is. And how that stuff can clean pretty much ANYTHING. So I thought, let's share our war stories! 😉
I worked at FA for a week or so before I realized just how crazy powerful this degreaser stuff was. Of course, that was AFTER I'd taken to scrubbing one of the breadstick oven pans without gloves. *shudder* My fingers were in such bad shape; so dry because all the top skin had rubbed off and they cracked like crazy. I was MUCH more careful after that, but would still sometimes end up with burns on my wrists from where the gloves ended. Once, a drop landed on my arm and I couldn't wash it off in time; still have the scar! Once I started cleaning the pizza ovens, I took to wearing a crew-neck t-shirt and long sleeves when I cleaned, and it worked pretty well for keeping the stuff off of me. Still had to be very careful. I learned that the second you even THOUGHT you got some of that stuff on your skin, you had to rinse it right away or you were in for some discomfort!
Still, it always amazed me that for such a powerful cleaner, it was used so frequently on food surfaces. I never liked to use it on food-touching surfaces unless I could get said item into the dishwasher afterwards, but sometimes you couldn't and then you had to make sure that you rinsed like, a million times.
I probably wasn't supposed to, but I used that degreaser to clean pretty much EVERYTHING. I remember there was a stretch of 10 days that our pizza oven broke, so we all got VERY familiar with exactly what could and could not be cleaned with degreaser. 😉 (Hint: Our fridge door handles and our proofer/retarder could not be cleaned with degreaser; the metal would turn black. Fun times!). I'd spray that stuff all over the wall and watch it drip yellow. Once, I pulled our maketable away from the wall and cleaned one side that had probably not been cleaned in a year; it had Pizza Hut posters on it and I didn't even know that the backgrounds were meant to be white; they'd always been quite yellow. 😛
If something was dirty, or felt tacky, a quick clean with degreaser would fix that baby up. I always had fun tearing apart random things that hadn't been cleaned in FOREVER and watch the yellow just drip off of them. Quite the satisfactory feeling.
Btw, this is sort of unrelated, but did you know that glass cleaner will take icee stains right off the counter-tops? It's crazy how well it works.
Anyway, I wish I had some degreaser for home, although I'm sure it would eat the puny finishes right off of all my appliances and counter-tops, lol. Commercial kitchen, I have not!
I worked at FA for a week or so before I realized just how crazy powerful this degreaser stuff was. Of course, that was AFTER I'd taken to scrubbing one of the breadstick oven pans without gloves. *shudder* My fingers were in such bad shape; so dry because all the top skin had rubbed off and they cracked like crazy. I was MUCH more careful after that, but would still sometimes end up with burns on my wrists from where the gloves ended. Once, a drop landed on my arm and I couldn't wash it off in time; still have the scar! Once I started cleaning the pizza ovens, I took to wearing a crew-neck t-shirt and long sleeves when I cleaned, and it worked pretty well for keeping the stuff off of me. Still had to be very careful. I learned that the second you even THOUGHT you got some of that stuff on your skin, you had to rinse it right away or you were in for some discomfort!
Still, it always amazed me that for such a powerful cleaner, it was used so frequently on food surfaces. I never liked to use it on food-touching surfaces unless I could get said item into the dishwasher afterwards, but sometimes you couldn't and then you had to make sure that you rinsed like, a million times.
I probably wasn't supposed to, but I used that degreaser to clean pretty much EVERYTHING. I remember there was a stretch of 10 days that our pizza oven broke, so we all got VERY familiar with exactly what could and could not be cleaned with degreaser. 😉 (Hint: Our fridge door handles and our proofer/retarder could not be cleaned with degreaser; the metal would turn black. Fun times!). I'd spray that stuff all over the wall and watch it drip yellow. Once, I pulled our maketable away from the wall and cleaned one side that had probably not been cleaned in a year; it had Pizza Hut posters on it and I didn't even know that the backgrounds were meant to be white; they'd always been quite yellow. 😛
If something was dirty, or felt tacky, a quick clean with degreaser would fix that baby up. I always had fun tearing apart random things that hadn't been cleaned in FOREVER and watch the yellow just drip off of them. Quite the satisfactory feeling.
Btw, this is sort of unrelated, but did you know that glass cleaner will take icee stains right off the counter-tops? It's crazy how well it works.
Anyway, I wish I had some degreaser for home, although I'm sure it would eat the puny finishes right off of all my appliances and counter-tops, lol. Commercial kitchen, I have not!
