View Poll Results: How often do you clean your stove top?

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    jgenie is offline Red Diamond level (10,000+ posts)
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    Default How often do you clean your stove top?

    How often do you clean your stove top? Not just quick wiping up spills but a thorough cleaning.

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    SnuggleBuggles is online now Black Diamond level (25,000+ posts)
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    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.

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    Typically every 1-2 weeks, depending on how often I'm cooking.
    DS - Feb 2010
    DD - May 2012

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    Quote Originally Posted by SnuggleBuggles View Post
    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.
    Thank you! This is me.
    DD 11/2005
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    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
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vludmilla View Post
    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
    DS 2014

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDKmom View Post
    Typically every 1-2 weeks, depending on how often I'm cooking.
    This is me too. Though it's probably closer to the 2 week mark. We have cast iron grates all the way across the stove top, so it takes some effort to find a place for them (they're too big for my sink) and then scrub everything.
    Christina
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    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
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    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.

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