After cooking pasta, I took the pot off and turned off the burner. Aparently at some point in the following minutes I threw an old tuperware type lid on that burner. and I now have a burner welded to blue plastic gunk that doesn’t want to come off easily.
Does anybody know anyway to get it off? I don’t want to burn it off and fill my place with nasty toxic smoke, because I have shitty ventilation. I put the thing through the dishwasher a couple times and nothing. No cleanser seems to dent it. I’m afraid of trying anything harsher, becuase I don’t want to somehow weaken it and start a fire in two years with something like a dremel.
My best guess so far is to throw it on the outdoor grill on nuclear with the leads sticking out of the lid. But I don’t know if that might hurt it in someway, plus my grill might be permanently contaminated with eau de Petroleum byproduct.
Anybody know how to get it off, without hurting it?
That’s probably not a good idea. Since the stove is most likely on 220 you’d have to make sure you use the right size wires and either run them from the breaker panel to outside or from the outlet behind the stove, or even from the socket that you took the burner out of. No matter how you look at it, not only does that have bad idea written all over it, you’d pay more for the copper wire then for a new burner I’d bet.
And this is coming from someone who has done plenty of this kind of stuff with electricity. In fact it’s something that I would have no problem doing, but this just isn’t a job for an extension cord or that role of romex you have laying in the garage.
A 220 volt burner is around 1250 Watts. If you plug it into 120V it will pull half of that or 650 Watts, which is around 5 Amps, no problem for an average extension cord.