baking soda and vinegar

Did you ever know how much cleaning can a bit of baking soda and vinegar do? I never knew until, of course, domesticated me started Googling on how to clean stubborn grease on a cooker. The cooker was new in our rented apartment, but after a while brown hard-to-clean grease or whatchamacallits started appearing on the cooker. ugh.. to clean it you really need to give is a bit of a scrub but also be gentle to avoid scratching the surface. So, the easy natural remedy was to sprinkle baking soda on the surface and pour a bit of vinegar on it... it becomes a bubbly chemical reaction, leave it for a while and wipe it off... because of the stubbornness of the grease on my cooker, I decided to leave it for a while, a while became days and more cooking spillage and splashes dropped on the cooker but to my surprise, the baking-soda-vinegar paste sucked all of the grease. The cooker started to look pasty and disgusting so I cleaned it, just a simple 'wipe off' and the cooker looked like new..well, almost new... I was so impressed... after that I started cooking again and now the grease has stuck on to the cooker surface again...sigh...