To clean the really cruddy drip pans from your stove, put them in a large pan with vinegar and boil the stuff off. Works like a charm, Just drop them in soapy dishwater and the come clean with very little work.
I would like to get all the black burnt on crud off my drip pans. I have tried ammonia and bleach but not together. I tried soaking the pans, but nothing is working. Any advice would help me please. I also live in an apartment complex, too.
By Rebecca L.
Using ammonia and bleach together is dangerous. The fumes from that blend could cause you to wake up in the hospital.
I have tried to remove the drip pans from the electric stove to clean them, but unfortunately it looks like the heating elements and drip pans may be one unit. Any ideas on how to clean them? I can't put them in hot water and soak them and yet I can't get under the burner to lift it up to clean them. Help!
Some stoves have prongs that pull out at the electic wireing.
The burners and drip pans may look like one unit (mine do) but they're probably not. If you look closely, you'll see where the burner plugs into the unit.
Some times the burner can be pulled out from the burner than just lift pan out. Mine were like that. When finished cleaning put drip pan back in place and plug burner back into place.
How do I clean burner pans?
By karen from Parker Dam, CA
I just use SOS soap pads on mine.
Wrap burner pans in aluminum foil. It keeps them clean and looking new.
I spray mine with oven cleaner, put them in a white kitchen trash bag, twist and use a bread tie to seal, put them in the microwave with door shut overnight. This next morning you can just rinse off most stuff and use a stainless steel cleaning pad on hard stuff.
The best thing is to clean them regularly in dish detergent, and maybe scrub with a Brillo pad, so that food drippings don't cook on. If they're in bad shape, try soaking a few hours in the sink in water with dish detergent and about 1/2 cup water softener, then scrub with plastic scrubbers. I discovered, the hard way, that if you don't clean them often enough, the cooked on drippings will spoil the chrome finish; you can get them clean, but not shiny.
I just toss them into my dishwasher weekly.
That's lovely, if you have a dishwasher!
What is the best way to clean the aluminum drip pans on an electric stove?
Put 1/2 cup of any powdered dishwashing soap into a roaster pan full of water. Stir; then add the burner pans. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 30 minutes.
This works great. I bought several sets of drip pans before I discovered this EASY way to do it.
Place drip pan in sink. Sprinkle on powdered dishwasher detergent. Pour boiling water on top. Carefully place drip pan directly on top of stovetop burner.
I have enamel drip pans or trays under my burners on my gas stove and occasionally normal cleaning methods don't remove all the burned-on gunk if I have been careless while cooking.
How does one get the burned on food off of an electric stove burner drip pan? I've tried everything to remove the gunk!
By Ginger M.
Oven cleaner. It will take the shine off of them but they will be clean.
I clean my stove drip pans over night in grocery store bags. Yep, I put two of them in several bags, bagged one inside the other and pour ammonia over them then tie them off.
I am looking for an easy way to clean stove top drip pans.
By Joanne T. from Athens, AL
When all else fails use Barkeepers Friend the powdered version and steel wool. A little elbow grease and they are clean.
