Cleaning Stove Top Grates

[cleanteamofny]

My question to all:
How do you keep your grates super clean without scrubbing?

Yesterday I threw my grates in the dishwasher and wash using the PP Cycle as usual, but I did something different. I've added Vinegar to to the main wash with detergent and the grates came out much cleaner than usual. I know they will be pristine condition if I wash them every 2 weeks with 2 cups of Vinegar.

What do you do to maintain your grates for used but showroom new look?

 

[danemodsandy]

Some....

....Can go in a self-cleaning oven during the cleaning cycle, but it's a good idea to check the range's Use & Care Guide before doing that.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Not allowed with my unit, rubber tips on end and dulling of oven racks if self cleaning cycle used.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I actually lost a rubber tip from one of my burner grates... o-&#92 ' ~ ' /-o

-- Dave

 

[laundromat]

Spray-Nine.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Thanks for the tip Chuck, Lowe's & Ho depot may carries it!

 

[yogitunes]

I was thinking Purple Cleaner/Degreaser......

also Dawn has a power scrub spray....just spray and soak for a while, and rinse....good as new.....

 

[cleanteamofny]

I'm a bad boy!

Hey Dave,

did friction caused your rubber to break or the kitchen sink sucked it down?
Yogi...., help me! LOL

 

[58limited]

Oven cleaner.

 

[cleanteamofny]

S.O.S

Kmart special , scrub our ship.
Yogi is this the cleaner you are talking about?

 

[goatfarmer]

Oven cleaner, sometimes I get one so pad that I have to use the grinder with a wire wheel to get 'em clean.

 

[yogitunes]

this comes in several names, but none the less, its Purple........

this is some powerful stuff.....WEAR GLOVES, it will rip the oils right off your hands, if not the skin itself at full strength......read the bottle, it can be diluted down......but will clean just about anything......this says Indutrial Strength, but I also have some thats even more powerful, and it ain't nothing to mess with....but no dirt, grease or filth stands a chance.....nor did the lettering on my Limited Kenmore after my brother oversprayed his clothes

this is also excellent for greasy mechanics works clothes, I lay them in the driveway, and with a garden sprayer, soak them down and let set for a short time, and then wash in hot water.....clean as a whistle....

excellent stuff.....but treat it sort of like bleach, watch overspraying/spill conditions.....

http://www.pepboys.com/product/details/8988874/00052/?quantity=1

 

[combo52]

Cleaning Gas Range Grates

Best way Self-Cleaning Oven [ you would have to remove the rubber bumpers, we do this all the time in our shop when cleaning up ranges for resale ] 2nd best way Oven-Cleaner.

It is always best to only buy gas ranges with black burner grates that hide most of the dirt if you actually cook much.

Best solution is an electric range if you value a clean range and kitchen, generally gas ranges are not well suited for residential kitchens as few homes have a good enough range hood to make a gas range worth having and if you do have a powerful enough hood they pull too much heated or cooled air out of the home, as residential hoods almost never have air-make-up systems like restaurants have.

 

[58limited]

<a name="start_50088.723168">"generally gas ranges are not well suited for residential kitchens..."</a>

 

Aside from your opinion on hoods, may I ask "Why?"

 

[cehalstead]

link to grate cleaning

Try this: it looks almost effortless compared to some of the ways I have tried to clean my grates.

http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/2011/10/i-saw-it-i-tried-it-cleaning-the-grates-on-your-gas-stove/

 

[sudsmaster]

I put them in the dishwasher, or in the self-cleaning oven.

I also put the drip trays in the self cleaning oven.

The grates are black cast iron, the drip trays and burner surround rings are black porcelain coated steel. The burner caps are porcelain coated cast iron. They all seem to go fine into the self-cleaning oven.

One grate (the center one) had rubber tips but I forgot to remove them once. They burned away in the oven. It's not a problem, since they are not needed to support that grate (it rests on the drip tray rims instead).

The oven racks are stainless and not damaged from this.

 

[kqkenmore]

Ammonia in a bag

Works great I have done this before but I just used a heavy trash bag and one cup of ammonia put all of the parts together. Just do it outside because of the fumes.

 

[mavei]

Try Astonish oven cleaner paste.It's imported from England. Works excellent.
I LOVE to clean an oven. I've never been a fan of self-cleaning ovens,never had one but tried a couple.My late Aunt's Maytag 24" electric double oven never self-cleaned very well. I like a stove's oven that I can take apart the oven door AND oven bottom and clean. I have a low-end gas range WITH A KNOB for an oven thermostat.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I believe one rubber tip under my burner grate simple just randomly eroded & chaffed from the heat...

I told my wife to be very careful when lifting/moving the grates to clean the stove, as the tip would frequently fall off & roll right under the range...

And the last retrieval when after she last cleaned the stove top, the tip was clearly gone & nowhere under the range or surrounding areas down on the flooring...

(I know, I should probably look for the "My Unusual Request Thread" in the SHOPPER'S SQUARE Forum; just don't know if anyone has for my Frigidaire & could send me...

-- Dave