I use a few squirts of windex and some paper towel on cool glass,works for me!
But I will try the ash trick.
But I will try the ash trick.
Anyone else use Oven Cleaner to clean the glass??
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Early on in the Fall when I was still learning how to run the stove I think I did just about everything folks have suggested in past threads . . . well everything except peeing on the glass like AP 
. Nowadays I'm just too cheap so I use a couple sheets of wet newspaper (left over from the previous week's weekly paper) and clean off the glass . . . if there is still a black smudge here or there that will not come clean with the wet newspaper I'll dab the wet newspaper in some fine wood ash and voila clean glass with a very minimal expense . . . and I'm being "Green" to boot . . . of course after cleaning the woodstove I usually go out on my nasty-smelling, two-stroke polluting, Polar Bear Killing/Greenhouse Gas producing Snowmobile . . . hey Yin and Yang right . . . I'm balancing things out.
. Nowadays I'm just too cheap so I use a couple sheets of wet newspaper (left over from the previous week's weekly paper) and clean off the glass . . . if there is still a black smudge here or there that will not come clean with the wet newspaper I'll dab the wet newspaper in some fine wood ash and voila clean glass with a very minimal expense . . . and I'm being "Green" to boot . . . of course after cleaning the woodstove I usually go out on my nasty-smelling, two-stroke polluting, Polar Bear Killing/Greenhouse Gas producing Snowmobile . . . hey Yin and Yang right . . . I'm balancing things out.I've used the Rutland glass/ceramic cleaner with good success on our QuadraFire i4100. It does require some effort, but this cleaner appears to only contain abbrasives, no highly-corrosive ingredients. I've never seen it scratch the glass. On an unrelated note - prior to using this product, my main window gasket already failed once, so I'm reluctant to use anything more corrosive than this cleaner. I had in the past successfully used a similar product to clean our electric range top, which has a ceramic material cleantop design.
Except for the first bottle of Rutland Cleaner for which I paid full price, I bought all the Rutland cleaner that my local Home Depot had left (3 bottles) for about $2.50/bottle. Home Depot had discounted it by 50% for an end-of-season sale to clear their shelves. I'll take my victories, however small.
Having said all of the above, a friend of mine swears by Oven Cleaner for his free-standing woodstove window and has it used it successfully for years.
---Mike
PS I now use Bon-Ami Cleaner made into a paste on our electric range top; it's never scratched our stove top or ceramic cookware. I have NOT tried Bon Ami-paste on my i4100 windows - has anyone tried this on their woodstove windows? I'm not suggesting that someone should, I just wondered if someone has looked into this... ...it seems like is should be okay, but obviously I can't recommend it without any data showing it's safe, etc.)
Except for the first bottle of Rutland Cleaner for which I paid full price, I bought all the Rutland cleaner that my local Home Depot had left (3 bottles) for about $2.50/bottle. Home Depot had discounted it by 50% for an end-of-season sale to clear their shelves. I'll take my victories, however small.
Having said all of the above, a friend of mine swears by Oven Cleaner for his free-standing woodstove window and has it used it successfully for years.
---Mike
PS I now use Bon-Ami Cleaner made into a paste on our electric range top; it's never scratched our stove top or ceramic cookware. I have NOT tried Bon Ami-paste on my i4100 windows - has anyone tried this on their woodstove windows? I'm not suggesting that someone should, I just wondered if someone has looked into this... ...it seems like is should be okay, but obviously I can't recommend it without any data showing it's safe, etc.)
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