Remove fingerprints from Stainless Steel Cooker Hood

[Wesley]

Chimney type and just installed.

Followed suggestion to use Windolene. This helped a little but also seems to have widened the marks.

Surely they can't be this easy to stain?

Ideas?

[Dan]

DRY Microfibre cloth works for stainless splashback here.

[The Medway Handyman]

The old contract cleaners trick is Johnson's Baby oil.

Seriously. It works.

[Andy Burns]

My cooker hood came with one sample oil-impregnated cleaning cloth

that price I didn't buy any more ...

[pcb1962]

We use Johnsons baby oil on our SS cooker. Forget where the idea came from but it give a nice even finish with no fingerprints.

[ss]

They flippin are I had to move ours and wrapped in newspaper to protect it then of course it was awkward to position while attaching nuts & bolts to secure it. So got a couple of marks where the tape was and a few fingerprints, it doesnt come off with hot soapy water.

I will try the baby oil

[S Viemeister]

Yes. It does.

[Owain]

I used to have to use it to clean and polish the automatic ticket barriers at the railway station. They get awfully mucky and there's a lot of them.

Owain

[Frank Erskine]

The problem with abrasives is that they remove printed lettering on yer SS finish.

[Owain]

even better. Printed lettering on SS looks naff. It should be etched or engraved.

Owain

[Apellation Controlee]

We use Barkeeper's Friend on our stainless splashback, before finishing off with a microfibre cloth. Looks better if you 'lay off' as if you were painting.

[Thomas Prufer]

Yes, it does.

But surely the Other Answer is also appropriate: WD40...

Thomas Prufer

[stuart noble]

Windolene is mostly fine chalk. If there's any texture or grain for it to penetrate, it will. Great on glass but I've seen it leave a fine deposit on other surfaces. The trade uses tomato ketchup to clean s/s but that's mainly where hard water is a problem.

[Huge]

Having had S/S faced appliances in a previous house, I'd never have it again. I see little point in having a finish that is hard to keep clean in a kitchen.

[Wesley]

Right. I'm off to Boots for some baby oil :-)

[stuart noble]

I also see no point in those worktops where you can't tell if it needs cleaning or not. I'm sorry I ever got conned into getting rid of the pale coloured one that showed every mark. Women just have to replace everything it seems.

[stuart noble]

It'll look good at first but will accumulate grime

[sm_jamieson]

I still have lots of marks on mine from installation. Fingerprints are grease, so washing up liquid should do it. Or white spirit. Not tried it but by all reports baby oil works - I don't really like the idea of them squeezing babies though. Simon.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Huge writes

What he said.

Bought a big American style side-by-side fridge/freezer some years ago with stainless steel doors. Big mistake. But agreed that baby oil works.

[RJH]

FWIW I had a Siemens SS dishwasher that had a 'no fingerprint' boast on the marketing blurb - and it worked.

Rob