Several years ago I used Easy Off oven cleaner on some stubborn spots on my SS cooktop. The area I treated with the oven cleaner cleaned up beautifully but left an obvious difference from the rest of the surface. After I got over being angry with myself I sprayed the entire surface. Alas, it all matched. After more hours of cooking and wiping down you cannot tell anything ever happened to begin with. You might consider doing an "all over" with the BKF. And Lindac is spot on with using steel wool pads. In my case Brillo pads worked magic in conjunction with the oven cleaner. Let us know. We feel your frustration.

suzienj - I love your space. The textures are great, and that corner desk is so great! The black fabric is the one I am the most hesitant about, but I think I'll really like it. We have black furniture in other places in our house, so it will tie in well. I will post photos as I go. We have another meeting tomorrow with her, and honestly, given that it's a free service, I'm really happy. When we were building, I hired an expensive certified interior designer, and I wasn't pleased at all with her work (ended up "firing" her and making all the choices myself - she said she hated the distressed look that I love, but that's another long story). So, I guess the price tag isn't always an indicator of quality. Thanks, Jan

The warning label is actually pretty good. It nicely summarizes exactly what you need to know. The SDS is more detailed and fun to read, if you are into that kind of thing. But most consumers don't need that. I agree that the letters are small, and that can be problem. But there simply is so much information that they want to give and only relatively little space. If in doubt, you should assume that any cleaning supplies are potentially harmful. More often than not, that's probably true. If that isn't good enough and you really need to read everything, I have found my cell phone to be much more useful than a magnifying glass. Take a picture and then zoom in. Or even better, look at the picture on your computer screen. Then you can make all the letter really big.

I got an update from the ex partner "C". He told me that "T" spent a couple nights living on the street, now is in a detox program at Kaiser. I don't know how he got into Kaiser. C has gotten T a place at the micro apartment halfway house place, for after he gets out of Kaiser. It is in downtown Portland, units are just 200 sq ft but they are private, there is some sort of supervision and support - I'm not sure about the details. I don't know if T still has his job, but I'd guess not. I'm not sure who is paying for the micro apartment or how long T can stay there. Poor C says he is done with T now; but I'd guess he has said that before in the past decade. Loyalty, and concern for their son, keeps him trying to help. Over the weekend, when C wasn't answering T's calls, T went to C's house and tried to get/break in, until the neighbors called the police. That really upset C. T used to live a pretty high life. They had a house in France and a big house in Portland. T always wore super fashionable clothes, had expensive tastes. Until recently he lived in a beautiful urban hip loft in downtown Portland. He's fallen a long way. I hope this was/is his rock bottom, but I'm not sure. And to add to the good start to 2015, one of my dear older friends, a remarkable gentleman of 84 y/o, has pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed very late, just before Christmas. He and his wife delayed notifying friends until after the New Year, to avoid spoiling people's holidays. He's had chemo but it is useless, the cancer had already metastasized to his liver. SWMBO and I went to see them Monday night. He has deteriorated very quickly and is already bedridden, extremely thin, only eating cups of boullion, not receiving visitors. We sat with his wife and SWMBO is going over there during the days to be available for emergencies while the wife goes out for an hour or two to take care of stuff. In Oregon we have the "Death With Dignity" law which allows a terminally ill patient, after a 15 day waiting period, to get a lethal pill to be self administered at a time of his choosing. They have started that process. I am skeptical he will survive 15 more days. He has lived a long and excellent life, so his passing is not such a surprise or tragedy. His wife is 18 years younger, a lovely woman in good health (I think I've posted a dinner party picture with her, in the past) and he leaves her and his four children comfortably situated. He has done everything on this earth that a man should do, and I hope he can die without too much pain.