eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.

How To

How to get you stove top cleaned fast and get it over with

Member
By ursus57
User-Submitted Article
(0 Ratings)

Love to cook love to eat hate the messy stove.

Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • oven cleaner
  • plastic wrap
  • Plastic scraper
  • BRASS, soft metal scraper
  • Old cloths or work towels
  1. Step 1
    Hate to mess it up...
     
    Hate to mess it up...

    Always spot clean as you cook and at the end of your gourmet session on the stove top. Remove whatever you can with soap and water and a plastic scraper, day by day.

  2. Step 2
    Great cooking makes a mess that is worthit.
     
    Great cooking makes a mess that is worthit.

    When the stove top is dirtier than you want it to be, bring in the big guns by....Place all grates from the burners into the oven, anything that removes easily take off and put in oven.

  3. Step 3
    Never get cleaner on anything that it must stay off of.
     
    Never get cleaner on anything that it must stay off of.

    Note you will ruin components that light your stove if you clean it without checking your manual. Cover anything that should NOT get cleaners on it with an inverted bowl, or plastic wrap.

  4. Step 4
    Never steel, always brass or plastic on youir stove top.
     
    Never steel, always brass or plastic on youir stove top.

    Use care and ventilation as you clean the stove top. Use gloves if you feel you should. Use water rinse and oven cleaner is NEVER to be mixed with anything but water, ever.

Tips & Warnings
  • Oven cleaner aerosol, fume free or regular, as you spray, hold your breath, when you need to inhale, leave the area and breath. After several breaths your stove top should have a good coating of cleaner. Let it sit for a while, hour or more as needed. To long and it dries, hard to remove. Use plastic scraper then BRASS scraper to remove soiled areas of the stove top. Steel scrapers tear gashes into your cooking surfaces, BRASS is SOFTER than the hard enamel baked onto the stove top, so much less chance of damage. My BRASS scraper is a scraper for ice on the windshields, brass is softer than glass, won't scratch glass. For whatever the scraper and cleaner missed use steel soap pads. You often need several.
  • READ labels READ manual to stove and Clean as you go when you use the kitchen. If you have breathing problems don't use this cleaner, get someone to do it for you as irritation to compromised lungs can create problems.

Comments  

Flag This Comment

on 8/10/2008 GOOD ADVICE! WILL TRY! THANKS

Subscribe

Post a Comment

Post a Comment

Related Ads

  • Have you done this? Click here to let us know.
I Did This
Get Free Home & Garden Newsletters

Copyright © 1999-2009 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy .   en-US Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. † requires javascript

eHow Home and Garden
eHow_eHow Home and Garden