How do you clean your gas cooktop?
Clean gas cooktop in 4 steps
Follow these steps to clean your cooktop without stains and strips.
- Step 1. Remove caked food rests
- Step 2. Clean the burners and pan supports
- Step 3. Use soap
- Step 4. Check the difference between glass and stainless steel
Step 1: remove caked-on food rests
Always remove caked food rests right after you finish cooking. If you let them cool down and dry up, they're harder to clean. If larger chunks are already dried up a bit, you can soak them in some warm water and some dish soap. Don't use dish soap with lemon. The acidity can damage the cooktop.
Step 2: clean the burners and pan supports
When you've removed all caked rests, you can remove the pan supports from the cooktop. You can put cast iron pan supports in some hot water with dish soap. Do you have plastic or enamel pan supports? Place these in the dishwasher. Remove the burners once every 2 months. You can check how this works in the manual of your cooktop. Let the burner caps soak in dish soap.
Step 3: use soap
Do you have brown stains in the spots of the burner caps? Use a spray with cleaning soda on the stains and let it soak for a while. Afterwards, you can clean the cooktop with some hot water and dish soap. Use a microfiber cloth for the best result. This material absorbs more dirt.
Step 4: the difference between glass and stainless steel
For glass or stainless steel gas cooktops, we don't recommend a scouring pad. The coarse material can scratch the cooktop. For a glass cooktop, you can use a degreaser and clean the cooktop with water. Dry it with a kitchen towel, so you won't get stripes. For a stainless steel cooktop, a stainless steel cleaner provides extra protection.
