A Sparkling Stove
I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but one of my least favorite chores is cleaning the stove grates. For some reason, we must be incredibly messy chefs because our stove gets dirty incredibly fast. I feel like I clean the grates at least once a month and it’s always a dreaded experience — soaking in the sink, scrubbing till your elbows burn, still not getting very far. Ah, the frustration!
So when I stumbled across this pin on Pinterest, I knew I had to put it to the test. The original cleaning recipe came from this blog and seemed pretty straightforward.
Here’s what we started with:
Pretty bad, right? Told ya we are messy chefs!
I found a giant bottle of lemon-scented ammonia at Target and went to town. We used giant Ziplock bags (one for each of four burners) and added 1/4 cup ammonia to each bag, then sealed up tightly and placed outside overnight. Good thing we did, since three of the bags popped and that would NOT have been a good thing indoors.
The grates needed mild scrubbing to remove any outstanding stains, but nothing like the elbow grease of yesteryear. Check it out!
Huge shiny difference! Now I just need to do the pans…gonna need some bigger bags.
That’s awesome! We’re totally trying this out with the grates. How do I actually clean the burners attached to the stovetop though… Ours are disgusting.
You could probably throw the burners in, too. We put in the tops to ours and they got so much cleaner!