This is my cook top with a section showing where I haven't cleaned it.
At our current home we have a glass cook-top stove. I inherited it with a severely baked-on mess! I have tried a number of times to clean it without success. I once spent an entire morning scrubbing on it to no avail. What a frustrating situation! I've tried baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, specialty cleaners, all with limited results. I've even scraped on it with a kitchen scraper -- that's how it got as "good" as it is in the uncleaned section in the photos. Believe me, it was much worse when I started on it!
I was complaining to a friend about my predicament, and she suggested some other specialty cleaners that I haven't tried. However, we live in a remote area near a fairly small town, and special products are difficult to locate. I did some searching on the internet and a couple of articles discussed baking soda and vinegar with a utility knife to scrape off the burned on guck. As I mentioned, I tried that, but it didn't work very well.
Fast forward to last night. I felt impressed to spray quite a lot of window cleaner onto the baked-on mess on the glass cook-top. I know that glass spray cleaner isn't all natural, and perhaps just the vinegar would have worked the way I did it; but this is what I felt I needed to do. I sprayed it on before bed so that there were little puddles on the burner and left it over night. When I got up in the morning, I re-wet it by spraying it with vinegar and went away for about 45 minutes or so. When I came back, the burned on mess was softened enough that I could scrape it off fairly easily with the blunt side of a table knife, (aka butter knife.)
As you can see from the photo, I was able to scrape off two significant sections of the severely burned on mess on my glass cook-top stove in only about 10 minutes. This is a very do-able solution! I sure hope this helps someone else who has a very dirty glass top stove.
