WOW! Clean stove grates! It really worked!

I've lived in my house for about 4 years. During that time, I've struggled with keeping the top of my stove clean. I have a gas stove and the grates on the top are not black cast iron, but an enameled grey color. Since they're enamel, they are a pain to clean. And let's face facts, I boil things over daily and rarely clean my stove top. :) I've tried spraying Oven Off cleaner and leaving them overnight and then scrubbing them like crazy the next day. It worked okay but it was a ton of elbow grease and they still looked like they had burned on food all over them.

I finally found a solution that required almost zero effort!! I thought about throwing them into the oven and then turning on my self-cleaning oven feature. I figured it bakes all the gunk in my oven down to ashes, could it work for my grates? I jumped online to see if it was okay and wouldn't totally ruin my grates. I found several people who'd done it and it had worked fantastic!

So I took my blackened/greasy grates and the little circle covers from the stove top, put them in the oven on the middle racks, and pressed the self-clean cycle and walked away for 3 hours. When it was done, my grates were as clean as the day I first used my stove. Some of them had a little white ash on them but it wiped right off, no scrubbing. SO CLEAN!

Just so you know, they were black in comparison from all the baked on food! I just thought I'd share.

P.S. A friend told me that her grates had little rubber feet and they got burned to ash. Maybe hold off if your grates have rubber feet. Mine were feetless so I didn't even think about it. Sorry Jamie B.