How to Clean a Ceramic Cooktop

Chances are, if you have a ceramic cooktop … you have at one point in time let something boil over.   And, watched that cooking surface burn on the surface making your cooking top look extremely dirty.

This is the story of my life – I always put things on the stove, get impatient for the water to boil, and then run like crazy to turn it down when I see the spaghetti bubble over the top.  

I actually posted this back in June – last night I made Spaghetti for my husband and let the water and pasta boil over… the huge burn stain on the ceramic was a reminder (aside from the nasty smell) that I need to slow down and do ONE thing at a time instead of trying to multi-task. When will I learn? Never.. because I’m sure I’ll do it again next time they want Pasta.

Here’s an easy way to clean it so you don’t have to invest in the ceramic cooktop cleaner:

Get out your baking soda and sprinkle it over the entire cooking surface. 

Fill a sink with soapy water (use Dawn Dish Soap).  Submerge a clean kitchen towel in there, then take out and squeeze out 3/4 of the water. Then take blue Dawn Dish Soap and squeeze some over the baking soda, and LAY the Damp Dish Towel OVER the mixture and let sit 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, remove the towel, throw in the wash; clean up the stove – you may have to use just a little elbow grease – and it should look brand new. 

My stove last night was VERY bad, so it took quite a bit of elbow grease but  now it looks brand new.

(If you are not up for dunking kitchen towels in water, take your spray bottle of vinegar and dawn and spray that on top of the baking soda & let sit 15 – 20 minutes).