How to Clean A Stove Top
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If the burners and the black grates on your stove are really gross, put them in the kitchen sink and then spray them all over with oven cleaner. Let them sit for a while, then rinse all the cleaner off. Any caked-on gunk that’s still on the burners should come right off after that. Use a pin to poke baked-in food out of the gas holes in the burners. Just be careful not to get any of the cleaner on your hands!
Powdered cleaners in a can that will get off hardened grease, but Bar Keeper’s Friend or Bon Ami (the one with the little chick on it) won’t leave scratches on the enameled parts of your stove. I know they make gel-type cleaners that are supposed to do the same thing, but I’ve never been able to get the really tough grease spots off with anything but powdered cleaner.
If you don’t want baked-on food and grease all over your stove, wipe up any mess you make as soon as you make it. Spills are only hard to get off the stove when you let them cool and harden and then heat the stove up again with the mess still there.
Some grease won’t come off no matter how much you clean it, especially if it’s been there for a long time. But if you’re careful you can use the same kind of flat razor you would use to scrape decals off of glass and just scrape the grease spots off the enamel.
You can substitute the scrubbing bubbles kind of bathroom cleaner for oven cleaner when it comes to cleaning off the top of the stove and the burners. Don’t ever try to use it inside the oven, though, because it isn’t safe to do that. Bathroom cleaner isn’t made to be heated up, regular oven cleaner is.
Be careful! You shouldn’t use cleaning powder or steel wool pads on a flat top stove, just use gentle liquid-type cleaners and a soft cloth or a sponge. And don’t leave anything spilled on it, clean up spills and splashes before they can dry and get hard.