How to Remove Thick Grease from Kitchen Cabinets - When Everything Else Fails

how do you get rid of really thick grease that's on your kitchen cabinets that's a great question i'm angela brown and this is ask a house cleaner this is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question and i get to help you find an answer now a couple of years ago i made for you a video called how to get rid of the icky sticky greasy gunk on your kitchen cabinets one of the things that i showed you in that video was how to use a power drill with a drill brush and then murphy oil soap now that part did not change that's still the quickest fastest easiest way to do the job but when we made that video many people came forward and they said hey ange my cabinets are stickier than that and then you wanted to know is it okay can i use a degreaser on the front of the cabinets i don't want you to use a degreaser okay degreasers are very strong and they will strip the oil out of the wood the next thing about a degreaser is the dwell time so if you leave a degreaser on wood it can dissolve and eat the finish so if you spray a degreaser on and you leave it wherever you sprayed it wherever those splotches were it's going to ruin the finish on your cabinet now it depends on the time that you leave it on and it depends on the strength of the degreaser and all of those things but for the most part my answer is please don't do that okay so the next thing i wanted to show you was the precursor to this project here this part did not change and this is step number four of a three-step process so step number four did not change i will leave links in the video to this so you can watch that next step number one for the pre-treating is our personal protective equipment so i've got some latex or nitrile gloves you can also use a playtex dipped in nitrile it doesn't really matter as long as your hands are protected then you're good to go for this project i want us to use eye protection just because i don't want anything splattering in our eyes and i don't want anything getting in our eyes that's not supposed to be there for that same reason i want to put on a face mask when i'm doing this as well not because there are any strong chemicals the the mineral oil we're going to use is odorless and colorless so it's not harmful as far as us smelling in fumes but it is fatal if swallowed so i just want to protect with all precautions ourselves okay and then also i will mention because it is fatal when you're done using it this goes in a locked cabinet out of sight out of mind not for anyone else to see or get into okay now that we've covered that step number one is our personal protective equipment step number two is treating the knobs now if you have a greasy knob to a cabinet and you open it up anything that your finger touches including closing the cabinet door which eventually we will anything you touch is going to get sticky then with that thick grease so what we want to do is we want to unscrew the knobs and we want to put them inside a bowl with a little bit of hot water and a couple of drops of dish soap doesn't matter what kind of dish soap this is just dishwater now soaking them for about 10 minutes is going to be awesome this works for glass ceramic porcelain bronze brass doesn't matter what kind of knobs you have it's okay inside dishwater inside a bowl i have oxo deep cleaning brushes and so when we're done after about 10 minutes we're going to scrub them up and they'll look just brand new that is step number two step number three is where we pre-treat the cabinet itself from that extra grease that's on your cabinets that's not going to come off with step four so to pre-treat them i'm going to take our mineral oil and this is used for cutting boards so if you have a cutting board that's drying out and the wood is not nourished this is how you nourish it is with this food grade mineral oil 100 food grade this is howard brand okay so i'm going to take a small bowl i'm going to pour a little bit in here you don't need a lot but then i have a small sponge on a stick this looks like a little paint brush i'm going to dip it inside my mineral oil and i'm going to paint the areas of the cabinet that are super thick with grease now it sounds counter-intuitive that i would put oil on a greasy cabinet but the interesting thing is the oil will break down the grease so once i leave that on there for about 10 minutes i'm going to be able to take a regular cellulose sponge this doesn't have any scrubby on it whatsoever it's just a sponge i'm going to come back and i'm going to wipe out all the gunk and all the oil and it's going to saturate my little sponge when i'm done here i will throw this away but i find that if i use a paper towel it gets all sticky and pieces of the paper towel stick to the cabinet i find that if i use a cloth of some other sort it gets really nasty and it's hard for me to throw it in the washing machine when i'm done so just a sponge that i can dispose of when i'm done is probably the easiest solution so i'm going to wipe my cabinets and clean it up i'm going to use the sponge it's super absorbent i can probably clean all seven of the 79 cabinets that we're pre-treating today with just a couple of sponges all right when i'm done with those three steps then i'm going to move over to step number four which is the next video and i'm going to go through the speed cleaning way of just spraying them down with murphy oil soap and then using my drill bit brush on a power drill so that i can clean them now when i'm done there will be no residue and so i can take just a regular terry cloth and i can dry the cabinets from any of the spray that i put on that will remove any oil any spray any of that stuff there's no water on today's project but that will clean the grease off my kitchen cupboards and it's going to make them look brand spanking new and it's going to be super and shiny okay so that is how you do it it is these four easy steps if you have questions or comments those go in the notes below and until we meet again leave the world a cleaner place than when you found

Channel: Angela Brown Cleaning

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Length: 5min 48sec (348 seconds)

Published: Thu May 12 2022