My sister just had a boil over (water, butter, milk - for mashed potatoes), on her brand new flat top stove. She’s never had this type of stove before. She doesn’t have the designated cleaner.
How does she clean it?
The burner was on and hot when the boil over happened.
Dinner time.
Thanks!
I’m guessing you mean a glass cook top.
When I am out of the special cleaner for mine I use cleanser with a little water to make a paste, rub it around and let it almost dry then I rub it off with a paper towel. Anything that doesn’t come off I scrape off with a razor blade scraper that came with the stove. For just a boil over I use the razor step when it cools.
For some reason you’re not supposed to use window cleaner on it.
Yeah, that’s it. My sister keeps calling it a flat top stove so that’s what I keep calling it. Unfortunately, we don’t have a scraper. This house (trailer) was just delivered and this is only our third night here. The stove came from the trailer factory. They didn’t give us any cleaner or a scraper. I know that when my mom got her stove, it came with both those things. This being Christmas, we can’t go get any.
What type of cleanser do you use? Something like Ajax? I don’t think we have any powdered cleaner at all. The only razor blade type knife we have is an Xacto knife.
If it has to sit until we can get cleaner and a scraper tomorrow, do you think we’ll still be able to clean it?
I’ve got the same type of range in question… And have done the burned milk thing a number of times. It can wait 'til tomorrow. Stop by a store and get a can of Barkeepers Friend. (it’s with all the other cleaning stuff.)
Make a paste with it, rub it on, let it sit for a couple of minutes, then scrub with a dishwashing scrubby sponge. It’ll eventually come off.
…and scrubby sponge will not damage the cooktop.
awesome. Thanks so much.
Sometimes a used dryer sheet with water will get stuff off. I’d never heard the rule about not using window cleaner…which I’ve used before to get spattered grease off. It doesn’t get anything burnt on off though, and it can leave the top kinda hazy/cloudy.
I, too, would recommend either Barkeeper’s Friend or Corning’s stove top cleaner. (Corning’s might be a little harder to find, but I offer the name in case your local grocer or discount store carries that rather than Barkeeper’s).
Basically, the stove top is really close to being the same stuff as a casserole dish, so you can pretty well abuse it as needed to remove the burnt on stuff.
With no scraper, you can use the edge of a non-serrated butter knife to get the heavy stuff off, then use a scrubbing pad to get off the rest. If you are looking for immediate-before-the-stores-open solutions, simply puddling a bit of water over the spill will go a long way toward making the crud easier to scrape up. Let it sit for several minutes. (Be careful, of course, if the tralier/home/stove is not flat, that the water is not just running off the stove onto the floor, oven, or other object.)
The product Soft Scrub should not hurt the surface, but it does not seem to work as well as Barkeeper’s or Corning’s products. I know of no reason why Ajax or Comet powders would not work, but I will admit that I have never trusted them on our stove.