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Hi Nancy
A quick and easy method is with furniture cleaner. Take a look at our catalog page Clean and wax The Prelude Furniture Cleaner works good for heavy duty cleaning and shouldn't harm the original finish or paint. Sometimes the finish or paint will soften after sitting for years with grease on them and some may come off, but not usually. If it feels soft, but nothing comes off let it sit for a couple of days and it should harden up again.
The Orange Oil shown would be good for a quick weekly cleaning and gives everything a nice orangy smell.
Scrubbing with the cleaner and 0000 steel wool will make the job easier and the 0000 steel wool is so fine that it's used for polishing, so shouldn't harm the old finish.
Dispose of paper towels or rags that you use for cleaning in a metal covered container, because the Prelude cleaner contains mineral spirits and a pile of yucky rags can catch fire from spontaneous combustion.
If some of the finish comes off and the stain looks ok you can recoat with more clear finish, see our catalog page Clear Finishes The polyacrylic is a good finish for kitchen cabinets. If you plan to use it it's best to test a small out of the way area to be sure that it's compatible with your old finish.
If too much finish and stain comes off you'll need to refinish. In that case type kitchen cabinets in the search feature on our site and it'll give you 156 results linked to information about kitchen cabinets.
The last two paragraphs are for "just in case", usually only the bad stuff comes off.
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