Pros and cons of ceramic cooktops smoothtops pros.
Over boil sugar on ceramic cooktop.
Avoid placing stirring utensils on a warm cooktop while you cook.
When cleaning a very bad spill from boiled over sugar to spilled baked beans off of a flat top stove do not invest in the very expensive cleaners made for these stoves they do not work.
Over time your ceramic cooktop can become the victim of water boiling over from pots baked in grease and a multitude of other stains.
Because it s burned it has carbonized won t dissolve with water.
All too often however walking away from the stove in an effort to take care of other work may result in water boiling over the pot or pan that you are cooking with.
Melted sugar on a glass cooktop can be a challenge to clean when not taken care of promptly.
No clue why as it didn t boil over or spatter or anything.
Burnt sugar on a smooth top stove.
Even worse if the contents of your cookware are not just water they may leave hard to remove marks on your stove top.
These cooktops are very easy to clean if you spill on them while cooking and they only need to be wiped clean from time to time.
When making desserts sugar can boil over on to the cooktop and can lodge itself on the cooktop surface and harden quickly.
Compared to old cast iron cookers a ceramic glass surface saves a lot more energy and is easier to clean in theory.
Fortunately there are ways to get your stove clean again.
Spray on a little oven cleaner turn on the burner for a few seconds let cool and then wipe clean.
I have an older ceramic cooktop and i spend a lot of time cleaning it but over the years the haze came on and never left despite vinegar.
The glass may appear to sustain the weight for the time being until the cooktop is heated at which time it could break or shatter when the glass or ceramic expands.
I had two different things burnt onto my glass cooktop.
While gas stoves typically require an abundance of elbow grease to clean the crevices that never seem to stay spotless glass ceramic cooktops make cleaning even the toughest spills a snap that is if you know how to correctly clean them.
Pour a small amount on the cooktop then use a wet sponge to get it sudsy all over the burner.
Bacon grease boiled over pasta sauce and baked on cheddar cheese are just a few of the messes that assault the average stovetop over its lifetime.
Food on these utensils can mark or burn on the cooktop leaving a mess that needs more time to clean.
I just tried the bar keepers friend on the horrible black stains left by boiling over homemade applesauce.
This procedure works with anything that s burned on a glass or ceramic stovetop.
Burnt sugar on a smooth top stove.
It took time but it was awesome and nothing is left.
A friend came over and told me it was sugar that had cooked.
Once hard it will be very difficult to remove without etching the surface of the glass.