Must be my age. English please. I have no idea what SNAFUTLACWAGASQPLGTBQL and the rest of that is about.
I tried cleaning the glass on the summers heat with ash and a wet paper towel today all it did was smear it around. I’ll have to try another method.
Not missing a &%^$# thing, right.....let's delete all these inside TLA's. Just messing with those using cute acronyms. Here goes final: SOOL = S##T Out Of Luck SNAFU = Situation Normal All F###ed Up ( mil use) TLA = Three Letter Acronym ( used too often in hi tech ) CWAGA = meaningless SOP = Standard Operating Procedure (mil) LGTBQ = if you don't know this, then you're SOOL. Finally for those of a certain age ( like Brylcream ).. LSMFT = Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco End... boring.
Takes a couple towels...things clean up a lot better with the second one...then a quick spritz of windex if you want to give it the final polish...
I use a razor scraper to remove heavier stuff if I had burned not so seasoned wood and dampened it down.
I use dry news paper to remove fly ash from coal. I use the same to scratch up soot/creosote from burning wood. It removes any loose stuff and scratches up any soot/creosote sticking to the glass, but doesn’t scratch the glass. You can also use a slightly dampened newspaper dipped in wood ash to scratch through some of the soot...may take a time or two, may not. Some info says stay away from everyday glass cleaners containing this or that. Recently I tried some Rutland glass cleaner on my glass that had darkened a lot from test burn of the stove outside where I’d forgotten to put the baffle in place. I tried my other methods first and a lot of stuff came off, but there was still a darkening of the glass...quite a bit too. A liberal squeeze of the glass cleaner on some dry paper towels or newspaper and the darkening started coming off easily. Two applications made for taking terrible looking dark and sooty glass to being like new again. Now I keep a few bottles on hand.
