Stubborn burnt grease

I have an electric cooker with slightly raised solid rings
Around a couple of them has accumulated a dark brown ring, presumably of burnt grease. I am usually very good at cleaning my kitchen, but this seems to have appeared while my back was turned!

It's too hard to be removed by the usual green nylon scourers, and I don't want to use steel wool in case I scratch the cooker top; so please have you any suggestions for removing these rings?

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Lakeland sell a pair of brushes especially designed for this job. I use cream cleaner and one of these brushes and a little elbow grease and its sparkly clean in minutes.

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Soda crystals , amazing for getting burnt off grease . Also after roasting meat if the pan is burnt just hot water and soda crystals within minutes it's spotless . Any supermarket and about £2 a bag , lasts for ages . Also told to put them down the sink by a plumber .

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Wow! Thanks for the reminder Susan!
My mum used to put a handful of soda crystals into the sink and follow it with a kettle full of boiling water...now I remember it so well, and I shall do the same plus use it for mucky roasting pans

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Soda crystals are brilliant but those brushes will get in places the crystals can't.

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Double success then!

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Absolutely although I'd say the manufacturers could make these cookers without that trap for grease that really would be a win win situation

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Hmmmm..... I've been thinking

When I moved into this flat about 4 years ago I had to buy everything for the kitchen, and also new carpets, so I just bought a cheap cooker
there are a couple of other things I don't like about it, so I might just replace it with a cooker that has a decent grill, and a ceramic or induction hob, or whatever they're called

Any comments? thanks

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Easier to clean definitely. What stopped us getting one was we would have needed to change our saucepans and I really like my pans have had them for many years. But if you don't mind then the inductions are pretty good. When our last cooker went wrong and we were waiting for a new one we borrowed a little two ring ceramic I wasn't too impressed with that as it took a long time to cool down, so it was hard to control the heat. But induction we had on holiday one year was very good.

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Induction hobs are great but just bear in mind that the electric supply may have to be upgraded.