How to clean hardened kitchen floor grease without harsh chemicals
Hardened cooking oil and grease splatters around the stove build up into a sticky layer that robot vacuums glide over and vinegar sprays require heavy scrubbing to remove. People avoid using strong chemical degreasers around pets and toddlers, leaving them struggling to get floors clean before guests visit.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using vinegar spray and manual mopping with scrubbing
- 2Using chemical degreaser sprays
- 3Allowing a robot vacuum to run over it (though it only glides over the grease)
- 4Using glass cooktop cleaner, polish, and stainless cleaner
- 5Applying appliance enamel with a brush after thoroughly cleaning
- 6Reporting the issue to the landlord
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Title, please help! I don’t want to have people over and think my kitchen is gross”source ↗
“By the weekend there's a layer of hardened grease that my robot vac just glides over.”source ↗
“I've tried vinegar spray + manual mopping and it helps but requires actual scrubbing.”source ↗
“Degreaser sprays work too but I have a 2 year old and a cat so I'm trying to keep chemicals off the floor as much as possible.”source ↗
Where this came up
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