How often do you clean your stove top? Not just quick wiping up spills but a thorough cleaning.
Everytime we cook
Once a day
Once a week
Other
How often do you clean your stove top? Not just quick wiping up spills but a thorough cleaning.
Never. I just don't care. The stuff under the burner doesn't affect the food safety. And, once it gets all burned looking, the color is uniform so I don't notice.
Typically every 1-2 weeks, depending on how often I'm cooking.
DS - Feb 2010
DD - May 2012
Well, I never really clean more than spills but our cleaning person does a very thorough job every two weeks. If it were up to me, I suppose I would do a more thorough cleaning sometimes but not that often
DD '06
DD '14
It gets done every 2 weeks when the cleaners do it. I do a quick wipe every night. We have an electric induction cooktop, so we can't let get really dirty, or else the spilled stuff will smoke when we turn on a burner.
We have a glass-top range, so we clean up general spills when they happen. Once a week we usually do a thorough cleaning with the glass-top-cleaner stuff.
--Mimi
Mom to Lala (2004), Bonus Mom to Big Sis 1 (1991) and Big Sis 2 (1992)
Grammy to Big Kindy Kid (2011), Big Pre-K Kid (2012),
Grandbaby Appendage (2014), and New Baby Grandboy (summer 2017)
Years ago, we had a lame electric coil stove top with lame silver drip pans. I tried to keep them clean for awhile. I eventually gave up when I realized how cheap new BLACK drip pans are. Ha.
Then, we got a new electric glass smooth-top. It was mirror black and just such a pain to keep clean. It was horrible! It'd get scrubbed with all sorts of different products all the time to try and keep it from looking like a hot mess (ha!). I vowed I'd never have another.
Until we moved and had another. This one, is also black, but not mirror black. There's a bit of a speckly texture to it. It is EASY to clean. I never spend any amount of time on it and it looks showroom-level clean. There is zero need to "thoroughly clean" it, it would look no different! Once in awhile if something cooks over and scorches, it needs a bit of elbow grease, but that is literally the only time I spend more than 30 seconds on it.
I've never had a gas stovetop, so for that I cannot say.