First, get black appliances over white, I have all black and they don't look dirty to me at all. We had white before and they were so hard to keep clean. I also have a ceramic cooktop, when things boil over we use a razor blade to scrape anything stuck on off. Easy peasy, we use the special cleaner weekly but for daily cleaning we just use a regular old cleaner. I've had mine for years and it still works great, even after the kids let a plastic plate melt into the hot stovetop.....yes, the razor blade worked on that too, it did damage the stovetop but it still works great.
