Need help cleaning my flat top stove!!!

[maslex]

So I got a new covered stoneware baker from Pampered Chef and decided to bake a pot roast in it tonight. Smells soooo good!!!

Anyhow, I took it out of the oven place it on the stove top to rest and then turned on the pan for the mashed potatoes.....YEP you guessed it....I turned on the wrong burner and my stoneware completely exploded and broke into 4 pieces. Now there is a huge mess on my stovetop. It's more of a sticky burnt on mess. The burner hasn't cooled off yet but I've been scraping some of the mess off with the razor blade.

Once it's cooled, should I soak the top of the stove with water and try to loosen this stuff up and then try to scrape it off? I'm so pi$$ed at myself right now I could scream!!!

 

[luvmy3]

hat stinks, I'm sorry about the mess and the loss of your PC covered baker. I would definitely scrape as much as you can and then soak the top with soap and water, take a dish towel and soak it and lay it over the mess to see if it softens it up so you can wipe or srape the rest off. Then use your cooktop cleaner to get the rest of it off. Good luck

 

[momof1princess]

OP, wipe as much of it off with a handtowel and dishcloth as you can, then wait for the stovetop to cool and use your stovetop cleaner to remove the rest. please don't use a razor blade on it-the razor blade may scratch the surface. if you don't have a stovetop cleaner handy, i suggest bon ami cleanser. we had a solid-surface stovetop when i was growing up, and that's what my mom used. i also have a solid-surface stovetop, and i use it too. bon ami cleans really well, but is very gentle and won't scratch the surface.

 

[AristocatFan]

I like the green Scotch Brite pad for my stove top. Doesn't scratch and has cleaned up the biggest messes with a little Windex and elbow grease.

 

[luvmy3]

OP, wipe as much of it off with a handtowel and dishcloth as you can, then wait for the stovetop to cool and use your stovetop cleaner to remove the rest. please don't use a razor blade on it-the razor blade may scratch the surface. if you don't have a stovetop cleaner handy, i suggest bon ami cleanser. we had a solid-surface stovetop when i was growing up, and that's what my mom used. i also have a solid-surface stovetop, and i use it too. bon ami cleans really well, but is very gentle and won't scratch the surface.

I just got a new flat top oven and in the care and cleaning section it does tell you to scrape it with a razor blade if its heavily soiled/burned on.
I use a nylon pan scraper because I'm too paranoid to use a razor blade, but just wanted to say that the manual does tell you to.

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

I keep one of those razor blade scraper things in a drawer next to my stove and I haven't scratched the surface yet even though I use it almost every day to get the last little burned specks off.

I keep an electric tea kettle on top of my stove to heat water faster than the stove will, and (typical of me) I accidentally turned the burner on that activates 2 burners at once (so the stove can support a griddle or something). Didn't come back into the kitchen until the plastic base of the tea kettle had fried! Plastic was melting all over the burner, and I was panicked. But the stove cooled down and so did I when I realized I could use the razor blade to scrape off what I couldn't get off any other way. The stove looks as good as new again, and my guess is yours will too.

Let us know!

 

[golfgal]

I would let it cool and just scrape with the razor again. If necessary squeeze some water out of a wash cloth and let it "soak" the spots a bit and scrape again. I have a 10 year old flat top stove in our old house and have always used a razor blade and the top STILL looks brand new. The directions that came with the stove say to use the razor blade for cleaning.

 

[maslex]

OP here....

Well, after my nerves calmed down and my stove cooled off, I took a cup of really hot water and poured it on top of the stove and let it soak for a couple minutes. It softened things up and I was able to wipe off some of it. And then I used the razor balde to get most of the rest of it off. There is still a bit of residue on it but I'd say about 95% is gone. Thankfully.

Thanks for all your help!!!

 

[LuvMickey36]

wet kitchen towels with hot water and lay them out on the cooktop. let them sit for 10-15 min. you should be able to use the towels to wipe up anything that is left. Good Luck!

 

[momrek06]

CERAMA BRYTE!!!

http://www.ceramabryte.com/

This came with my GE Profile flat top stove. It is sold at Lowe's and Home Depot.