Cleaning experts debunk bizarre grass clippings cleaning hack

A cleaning company has put a popular cleaning hack to the test and the results didn't exactly go as planned.

Earlier this year, Mrs-Hinch-inspired Facebook groups saw users sharing a natural trick to get rid of greasy stains on oven shelves.

Suggesting a more 'natural' way, the users of the groups are being encouraged to leave their oven shelves outside on the grass overnight.

A cleaning professional has put the trick to the test, posting the disappointing results yesterday on popular cleaning Instagram account, @thebigcleanco, and the video has amassed thousands of views.

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"I'm a professional cleaner and since I've been sharing tips on the internet I kept hearing this home hack of leaving your oven racks under lawn clippings overnight and in the morning they'll be miraculously cleaned," she says in the video.

"As bloody ridiculous as that sounded to me, I thought, 'What the hell? I'm up for it, so let's go.'"

The clip shows the woman covering her oven racks with lawn clippings.

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"I left them overnight and I can now confirm that that hack is as rubbish as it sounded,"

She goes on to explain that the oven racks she put outside "weren't even bad" in terms of the amount of grease and grime on them, and that the hack "didn't even soften it up in the slightest."

After attempting the hack, the results were not to standard, leading to the cleaning expert leaning back into more traditional methods of cleaning over racks.

"I still had to get my trusty scourer out," she said.

"Let's just throw this hack in the bin, it doesn't work."

When the hack first became popular it was echoed by multiple cleaning Facebook groups and even Great British Bakeoff's Nancy Birtwhistle, who spoke on BBC about it.

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"In the past I used to resort to chemical heavy cleaners but I don't now, I take my shelf outside and throw it into the long grass, leave it there 24 hours and then the next day, dry cloth and just wipe it."

Although the actual source of the hack has not been confirmed, Birtwhistle attributed the idea to one of her international fans.

"I have got some great followers and they throw me ideas - I think that this one originally came from someone in South Africa."