Comments on: How to Clean Burnt Food from a Glass Stovetop

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:24:29 +0000

Sandy, Ann, Anybody – it sounds like baking soda and lemon work best? I am renting and the NEW stove has a black glass top. Unfortunately there is burnt food on it at this point that won’t wipe up – the burnt food as been cooked on for about 6 months now and there are new stains on other burners, and water stains! I wipe it down after use but it keeps getting worse.
My questions is: will these methods listed above, the baking soda and lemon, and the comet and lemon, and the over-the-counter projects RUIN the black on the glass? When I wiped hard on the stains, I noticed some black color came off onto the dish cloth, so I’m afraid to try anything that will further ruin it – it’s not my stove ya know.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:07:32 +0000

Thank you for the tip. I went to Home Depot to get the supplies and saw a new glass stove top. I bought it and it looks great. Thanks again, truly a miracle.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:53:15 +0000

I’ll never buy the expensive stove top cleaners again! Lemon juice mixed with baking soda worked wonders. It cleaned an old, burnt-on mess that I thought had ruined my stove top, and a new one that happened on top of it. I put a wet paper towel down on top of the mess for about 5-10 minutes, then spread the mixture on top and scrubbed with a non-abrasive pad. Thanks for the tips to save my stove top.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:52:14 +0000

I am so thankful, Sandy, for your solution to burned splatters on a glass stove top. I had tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked. Thanks for passing the suggestion on. It was truly a MIRACLE

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:05:30 +0000

We had splatter burned onto our glass stovetop and immediately began trying to remove with a variety of cleaners and lots of elbow grease. After a week of scraping with no success, I tried all of the above suggestions: soda, professional stove cleaner, goo-gone, olive oil.

Then I placed damp paper towel on spill while I made a paste of soda and lemon juice, whipped off paper towel, and began scrubbing with the foaming paste It worked like a MIRACLE!!

Many thanks to person who suggested it!!

By: Just cleaned my glass stove

Just cleaned my glass stove — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:12:28 +0000

If you have food burned onto your glass stove top, Comet will get if off with just a little elbow grease – even if the food has been on the stove awhile and is blackened and hardened. My stove was so bad, I thought the burnt on food was just a damaged stove-top (my glass stove top is black). I got so tired of it that I just decided to use Comet because it cleans my bathtub so well.

1. Scrape off the burnt food as best you can (use a razor blade or metal spatula or metal spoon or whatever works. Just make sure it isn’t going to scratch the glass).

2. Wipe down stove with a damp paper towel or wash cloth.

3. Mix a little Comet in a bowl with water until its the consistency of toothpaste.

4. Spread the Comet over the stained area of the stove (section by section – you probably don’t wanna let the Comet dry).

5. Use a damp wash cloth and rub the Comet into the stove top using small circles.

(It’s gonna take some serious elbow grease – in other words, you’ll need to press hard.)

6. Wipe area with damp paper towel to make sure you’ve gotten up all of the burnt food.

7. Repeat steps 4 – 6 until you’re stove top is clean.

8. Wipe stove top using a clean damp wash cloth.

9. Dry with paper towel.

Your stove top will look like new!

By: I. Cooper

I. Cooper — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:48:28 +0000

I purchased this new range in January and used all the products suggested by the manufacturer. Almost immediately the stains and scratches appeared and now it looks awful. Are there ways to remove those scratches? They cause the whole kitchen to look bad.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0000

We bought a glass top stove about a year ago, bought all new cookware and was really careful when using and cleaning it but still have several scratches on it, wonder if there’s any way to remove them.

By: Kaserasera

Kaserasera — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:39:49 +0000

To clean glass top stoves, use any brand ceramic stove cleaner, let set for couple minutes, then follow with magic eraser, works with the most stubborn stains wonderfully!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:29 +0000

For burnt on foods, you can save some time by taking a wet washcloth and spreading it on the burnt on food for about 10 minutes or more. This should be done after the burner is cooled. The water softens the food and lets you wipe it up with a paper towel or sponge. If there is anything left on, you can then use the scrapper or a non-abrasive pad.

Hope this helps…