How To Clean Stove Top Drip Pan

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If you enjoy cooking but detest cleaning afterward, chances are that you now have a dirty stove.

A greasy and grimy cooktop is the result of not maintaining your stove properly.

When food overflows from your cookware, it will fall on your stove burners, grates, and drip pans.

Over time, as you continue cooking, this food and grime will burn and stick to your cooktop components.

Burnt-on food and residue are tough to remove and more difficult to clean.

It’s not too late to clean your cooktop, though.

No matter how long it’s been since you last cleaned it, we got the perfect solution for you.

However, if you’re planning to do a thorough cleaning of your stove, now is the best time.

How To Clean Stove Drip Pans Overnight

Did you know that you can clean your stove drip pans in a span of a few hours? It sounds effortless and too good to be true.

But, you can clean your drip pans overnight using ammonia.

Read our step-by-step guide below on how to clean your stove drip pans with ammonia.

You’ll probably regret why you didn’t clean your stove sooner if it only takes that time to finish the task.

Allow your stovetop to cool thoroughly.
Remove your drip pans and other removable components of your stovetop.
Place your drip pans and burners in a tightly sealed bag. Put about a quarter cup of ammonia inside the container and seal the bag.
Leave it in a safe place overnight. The ammonia fumes will evaporate and do the cleaning for you.
When you wake up in the morning, all the grease, grime, and burn-on food should be gone.
All you have to do is to take them out of the plastic bag and rinse them.
Dry them out completely before placing your drip pans and other components back on your stove.

There are many other ways on how to clean your stove drip pans.

Here, we will show you how effective hydrogen peroxide is in removing grease and grime on your drip pans.

Let your stovetop burners and drip pans cool before you remove them.
Place them under running water to remove any loose dirt.
Apply a generous amount of baking soda to your drip pans. Ensure that you cover areas with thick burnt-on food.
Pour hydrogen peroxide over your stove drip pans and submerge them.
As soon as the hydrogen peroxide touches the baking soda, you will notice the latter will fizz. Leave these two products at work for a few minutes.
Rinse your drip pans. If there is still leftover gunk, scrub lightly to dislodge them.
Dry your stove drip pans and burners with a clean microfiber cloth.
Place them back on your stovetop.

Using oven cleaner is also an easy and effective way to clean your drip pans.

This type of cleaner is specially designed to remove baked-on food.

Thus, it will effortlessly remove hardened food and grime on your drip pans.

As always, let your stovetop components cool completely.
Prepare a basin on your kitchen sink and fill it with hot water. Add a degreasing dishwashing liquid to create soapy water.
Submerge your drip pans, burners, burner rings, and caps on the water. Wait for a few minutes.
Rinse with warm water.
Evenly coat your drip pans with your oven cleaner of choice. There are plenty of commercial oven cleaners available in the supermarket or home depot.
Let your oven cleaner-coated pans for about an hour.
Scrub lightly if there is stubborn grime and baked-on food left.
Rinse and dry your drip pans completely.
Reassemble your stove drip pans and burners on your stovetop.

It sounds absurd to use cola to clean your stove drip pans.

However, many kitchen owners have found this trick to be quick and effective.

Coke can remove grease and grime on your cookware, stovetop grates, and drip pans.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how you can clean your drip pans with coke.

Once your drip pans have cooled, remove them from your cooktop.
Place them in a pot and add the coke. Make sure that your entire drip pans are covered.
Place the pot on your stove and allow it to boil. Let it sit until the sticky and hardened food on your drip pans flakes away.
Scrape the burnt-on food and grime.
Take out your stove drip pans and let them cool.
Scrub gently to remove the grime.
Rinse your drip pans with warm water and dry them using a clean rag.
Finally, reassemble your stovetop drip pans, burners, and other components.

With homemade cleaners, you have no reason to put off cleaning your stove drip pans.

The solutions we mentioned above are available and easy to do.

You can even finish cleaning your drip pans in just an hour.

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