If you are a person who loves to cook, then stove must be an integral part of your life. Be it delicious pancakes, Spanish eggs or fried rice, it is your stove that helps you make everything. While most of us make sure to clean cook tops as well as the kitchen slabs on a regular basis, very few of us pay any attention to the stove top grates. In fact, the grates bear most of the brunt of cooking, getting splattered with oil or covered with burned-on food. However, cleaning stove burner grates is not too difficult, only you need to pay a little time and effort on them. The cleaning tips given below will help you in the task.
How to Clean Stove Top Grates
Things Needed
- Dish Soap/ Abrasive Cleaner
- Scouring Pad
- Dish Towel
- Covered Container, large enough to hold grates
- 1/4 cup Ammonia
Instructions
- First of all, you need to remove burner grate from stovetop. However, before doing this, make sure that they are cool enough.
- Apply a small amount of dish soap or abrasive cleaner on the scouring pad.
- Take the grates under water and scrub them thoroughly.
- Now, rinse them with warm water.
- With the help of dish towel, dry the grates.
- Put them back on the cook top.
Heavily Soiled Stove Top Grates
- After making sure that the stove grates are cool, remove them from the stove top.
- Take the covered container and fill it with water, enough to cover the grates.
- Add 1/4 cup ammonia to the water.
- Put the grates in the container and let them soak for at least 3 hours.
- Take out the grates from the container.
- Wash them with warm, soapy water.
- Now, rinse them with warm water.
- With the help of dish towel, dry the grates.
- Put them back on the cook top.
