I cannot get my stovetop clean!

Easy off blue can oven cleaner and Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

Looks like the enamel is being scrubbed away. Consider after cleaning with oven cleaner (let it sit for an hour) and then removing with warm water, spraying with a heat proof spray paint and then cleaning gently going forward.

If what is pictured is removable, I would soak it in a sink of hot water with dishwasher detergent. Let it soak for a while and then try to clean it off with a scrubby pad. The water will make everything slippery but it seems to help with really stuck on food.

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Looks to me as if you are scrubbing the finish off.

After using both,wipe again with white vinegar and water 50/50

Looks like the finish/paint is coming off which means it would have to be redone to look shiny again :(

Bar Keepers Friend might work - great stuff!

Try cream copper cleaner. It is an amazing product that cleans more than just copper pots. It restores porcelain and silver, and removes baked on grime, rust and tarnish from metals. Don't use the powder form. Its the little tub of cream copper cleaner that works. Put it on with the round sponge that comes in the container and let it sit for a few minutes before wiping it up. You may have to reapply the cleaner more than once depending on how stuck on the stuff is, but it does come off. Good luck!

Try laying new fabric softener sheets on the surface, then cover with hot, very wet dish rags. Cover them with plastic to keep the moisture in. Let sit overnight. Remove what you can, then do it again until you get most of it off. Then try soaking the same way using just dish rags soaked in really hot water and dishwasher detergent. Be patient and persistent. I've used old plastic gift cards to scrape very gently. Once it is clean, polish your stove top with a kitchen wax, such as Jubilee (yes they still make it!). I find it in hardware stores. Fabric softener sheets also work great for soaking pans with burnt on food.

Maybe some share this tip but try boiling water and than pouring it with some type of dish detergent (dawn preference). Let it sit for as much as you can overnight will be great. The next step will be to grab a fiber pad and scrub. If no fiber pads are available than grab a copper scrubber (not stainless bc it will scratch it).

Try Easy-Off oven cleaner in the blue can. That stuff is awesome.

I always use Easy Off oven cleaner on metal or glass with burnt on grease. Wear gloves and ventilate the room or do outdoors on newspaper. The other methods require a lot of scrubbing. This just lifts off the burnt on grease with a minimal effort.

This looks like a lime deposit, and it takes awhile for vinegar to dissolve it. Soak a cloth or paper towel in vinegar, press flat on stove & cover with plastic, avoiding areas/parts not enameled. Leave it alone for at least 1/2 hour. If you can scrub off the deposit with a brush or the tip of a plastic spoon afterwards, repeat area-by-area till the stovetop is clean (never use scouring powder or steel wool on shiny surfaces - they damage the surface).

Jana, how did you get the burner cap so clean? Mine look awful!

I use bar keepers friend works on numerous things

Yeah I use a product called grease lighting, works awesome U use it on everything, I find it here in indiana at dollar General stores.

Did you try putting them in the dishwasher?

I have a black stove very careful with chemicals. A wet hot cloth with dawn placed on the area and let it set. Works wonders

Lemon juice

I have used regular formula pine sol. Spray on and let soak then wipe

I’m not a professional by any means, but it dies look like the stove top‘s enamel is beginning to chip/flake off, leaving the metal underneath. If it was baked/cooked-on goo, it would be yellowish or brown. I can’t imagine anything edible being grey! Lol. However, if it is indeed baked on food, I would try the afore-mentioned dryer sheets hack. Just be sure to let it sit for a while before you try to wipe it. That goes for any baked-on mess. Gotta take into consideration the fact the stuff was probably baked on several times and has built up over time. A few tries will probably be necessary before you achieve results. ;) good luck, Jana.

Try oven cleaner it is not abrasive

try using a paste of cream of tarter and vinegar mix.let it soak for a few minutes . u may have to use mr clean eraser to help remove it .

Bon Ami or Barkeepers Friend are really good at cleaning. Bon Ami isn't likely to scratch the finish either. If it's a mineral deposit perhaps try CLR or Lime Away. If nothing works just cover with foil liners.

Easy off also makes liquid stove top cleaner. Though I found that regular spray easy off worked better. Spread newspaper or brown paper bag. Place racks on that . spray. Gloves. Wait 10 minutes. And put in sink of water to rinse. Also you want to do stovetop separate because it is a task to wipe off all at once.

Looks like old oven cleaner to me, put a hot wet towel on it tll it cools, then use one of those round plastic scrubbies and some Dollar Tree Awesome Degreaser. Wear kitchen rubber gloves.

The chemicals in the fabric softener sheet and water will soften the burnt on grease. It's not instant, but soaking helps.

Easy off oven cleaner works best. Go by directions for heating temperature. But you can't just wipe off. You have to really scrub it with a brillo pad which has the soapy surface instead of plain steel wool pads. This really takes some elbow grease. Just do it in small areas at a time and it may take several applications by looking at the picture you have posted.

Lay a couple layers of paper towels on it and then pour ammonia to thoroughly soaked the paper towels. Let that sit for several hours. If it is cooked on Grease and food particles then it should come off.

What about it being a gas stove? The burners would be in the puddle of cleaner.

try Bar Keeper's Friend. I is like an Ajax, but it is no abrasive and will not damage the surface

I would use easy off oven cleanser. Leave it on overnight, in the morning (it will be dry), spray it again. Wait 1/2 hour or so and scrub with a Brillo pad and hot water (as hot as you can stand). If that doesn’t work, I don’t know what would!

I had to clean one that looks like yours along time ago. From my time in the military cleaning those as a wife we had to have them spot us. What we would do would be to put them in a bag pour a bottle of ammonia in the bag and seal it let it stay overnight until everything was clean it might take two or three times but it will make it easy off and won’t Deteriorate the enamel

Cerama Bryte cleaner works wonders. It's like Bar Keeper's Friend, but I like it better.