Ecozone Pan and Soleplate Cleaner 50g

Author: S.M.Jones

Rating: 5

Review: Easy to use, cleans the iron brilliantly

Author: Miss Moose

Rating: 1

Review: I had high hopes for this.... hugely expensive, but if it worked, then it would be worth its weight in gold. The first thing I tried to use it on was on a stainless steel saucepan that was pretty badly burnt with macaroni cheese. The saucepan had been soaking for over a week...first in salt, then bicarbonate of soda, but I still couldn't get the burnt residue off with a normal steel scourer. In the end, I decided to buy this product as it is eco-friendly, has no chemicals, the company doesn't test on animals etc, and it seemed to be just what I needed. I have M.E., so I wouldn't win Miss Universe as far as strength goes, but using this block, I couldn't even make an impact! ...Nothing!! Ended up buying Brillo Pads for £1.25 and although it took a lot of umph, they did remove the charcoaled remains of my dinner fairly swiftly. Disappointed at having zero results with this, I decided to try it on the edges and base of my frying pan, as the pictures displayed. My frying pan wasn't that bad...just the odd bits and pieces of brown burnt-on fat, which I managed to remove with a lot elbow grease. I also started to do the stainless steel bit at the end of the handle, just like in the advertised photograph. It was then that I realised that this thing was scratching the heck out of my pan! I held it up to the daylight, and it had taken off the coating on the underside if my Tefal pan and really scratched the silver stainless bit on the handle!! I was really annoyed! I knew that you weren't supposed to use it on non-stick surfaces, but upon seeing the advertising photos cleaning a pan very similar to mine, I didn't think it would scratch it so badly! Apart from there being no chemical soaps in it, I fail to see the difference between this and a brillo pad! I had planned to use it on my glass oven doors, but daren't now! I did phone the company and tell them that I thought their photographs were misleading, but they just said that the handle of my pan must have a chrome coating, and that you shouldn't use it on any type of coating..... well, certainly all Tefal pans have some kind of orangy coating on their base now a days. Admitedly that bit was my fault for not reading the small print, and just looking at the photographs. So now, I'm stuck with an £7.99 block of this stuff, and I really don't know what I'm going to use it for!