How Do You Clean A Gas Cooktop?
Gas stoves preheat more quickly than most electric stoves and oven temperatures are more even. Because of this, many serious cooks prefer them. On gas cooktops, the burners are sealed and can’t be removed. This keeps food spills from leaking beneath the stovetop and makes cleaning easy. Burners and burner grates should be cleaned regularly, but the process is straightforward and doesn’t require special products unless you have an especially difficult mess to clean up. Clean up messes made by food boiling over quickly. Remove the pan from the burner and allow the burner to cool. Use a damp but not wet cloth to clean up the spill. Use a non-abrasive cleaner and a plastic scouring pad to remove soil from the burner. Don’t let the cleaner seep into the holes–or ports–where the gas comes out of. Use a straight pin to clean clogged gas ports. Test for clogged ports by turning the burner on and checking which ports aren’t producing flame. Insert a pin into the port, remove it, then test aga
