When I brown my dishes in oil, it makes screenings everywhere!
These oil splatters are all over the surfaces around my gas stove.
The problem is that these cooking grease stains are particularly stubborn and difficult to clean.
Especially when you don't clean them immediately...
Look at my kitchen. From a distance, it looks clean :
However, if you take a closer look at the surfaces, you will soon change your mind!
Look at the photo below. See all those little splashes on the air vent just above the microwave?
Well, those smudges are oil splatters.
These grease stains form every time I pan-fry my food in butter or oil.
The worst are the splashes on the top of my microwave, where they mix with the dust and create a thin layer of dirt very difficult to clean.
And when you try to clean this layer of dirt with a piece of paper towel...
...the oil mixes with the dust and forms clumps of sticky dirt, yuck! Watch:
Fortunately, I found a trick to easily clean up spills in the kitchen.
The trick is to use a few drops of mineral oil on Sopalin. Watch:
1. Simply pour 2-3 drops of mineral oil on a paper towel.
2. Pass the Sopalin on the surface to be cleaned and there, as if by magic, the dirt will disappear before your eyes!
3. Once finished, iron a clean paper towel on all the surfaces you have just cleaned.
This last step will cover the surfaces with a thin layer of mineral oil and, next time, it will be even easier to clean.
There you go, now all surfaces are clean and neat :-)
Normally, to remove these dirt, you have to rub them with a lot of soapy water...
But with this trick, the dirt goes away on its own. Easy, right?
Mineral oil is a neutral oil used to protect indoor wood, such as cutting boards or wooden salad bowls.
Be aware that vegetable oil works just as well as mineral oil.
However, a chemist friend explained to me why, in the long run, it is better to use mineral oil:
"In the short term, vegetable oil works just as well as mineral oil because they both have that 'oily' power that eliminates splattering.
But in the long run, mineral oil has a huge benefit. It does not yellow over time and does not become sticky, unlike vegetable oil.
Moreover, we see that vegetable oil is good for health, because it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids. Exposed to oxygen, these acids yellow and become sticky. »
