5 Easy Steps to Cleaning a Gas Stovetop

5/13/2019 (Permalink)

Remove the grates

Five Steps and Your Range Will be Clean and Ready

Cooks are master mess-makers. If you don’t believe that, look at your stovetop. After a busy day of cooking, the stovetop of your gas range can look like a disaster area. Eventually, you will decide that it’s time for some serious range cleaning. Follow these five steps and your range will be clean and ready to crank out more culinary masterpieces.

1. Remove the Grates

Lift them from the stovetop and submerge them in hot soapy water. They are most likely ceramic-coated and will clean easily. Soak them until it is time to reassemble the stovetop.

2. Remove the Burner Caps

The burner caps of a gas range are small round discs that sit atop each burner. These will receive the same cleaning treatment as the grates. Soak them in the hot soapy water until reassembly time.

3. Clean the Stovetop

At this point, you are looking at a dirty stovetop with burners sticking up through the holes. You can see evidence of everything you cooked since the last cleaning. Every time you cook, some of that mess burns off creating the familiar smoke smell. You can clean the stovetop with equal parts of water and vinegar in a spray bottle. This solution will remove the cooked-on food and eliminate the odor.

4. Wash the Grates and Burner Caps

At this point, the grates and caps are probably clean from soaking. Go over them with a brush, give them a quick rinse and dry them.

5. Reassemble the Stovetop

Put the burner caps back in place followed by the grates. If the parts are still wet, turn the burners on for a few seconds to dry them off. Now, you are ready to start cooking again.

A gas range is great for cooking, but open flames can set the stage for a variety of problems. If you have a bad cooking day that requires a visit from a Brighton,CO, area fire department, know that there are damage restoration experts nearby, ready to help with the cleanup.