Cleaning Gas Range Grates / Burners

[Sanisonic]

What is the best way to remove the black burn marks and stains off of Gas Range stove grates and burner hardware?

Currently I use "Bar Keeper's Friend" liquid cleanser and it works pretty good. Over the years, I have used Ammonia, Bleach (never together!!) and other things, but I hoped someone here would have the best possible method.

Chris

 

[passatdoc]

My Frigidaire gas range grates are gray porcelain over cast iron and are dishwasher safe. So I wash them every month or two when there is spare room in the dishwasher.

For black marks that won't come off in the dishwasher, I use Clorox Soft Scrub and a dishtowel or toothbrush. I also use this method for the burner caps, which per Frigidaire are not dishwasher safe.

 

[yogitunes]

Baking Soda paste....and usually your thumb

wet your thumb, dip it in Baking soda, and rub the mark....Mother Yogi showed me this years ago after I could not get stains and black marks off of my stove with Ajax and steel wool, she walked over and did this, in an instant removed every stain...who would have thought!

 

[maytagbear]

I would check with the manufacturer first......

but a while back, some gas burner grates were approved to go through the self-cleaning cycle. I would check with the manufacturer first, however. Things may have changed.

Most of them still are dishwasher safe, though.

However, taking care of a gas cooktop is about 10000x8 times easier than an electric coil cooktop!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[58limited]

I use Easy-Off oven cleaner on my vintage O & M porcelain grates and chrome drip pans.

 

[passatdoc]

Actually, I'd owned my current range for at least four or five years before accidentally discovering in the owner's manual that they were dishwasher safe. My guess is that cast iron grates without porcelain coating would not be a good idea in a dishwasher. Because my range is white, the grates are medium gray and spots "show" on them more than they would on black grates. The burner caps are not DW safe because the underside is cast iron without porcelain coating, whereas the grates are coated top and bottom.