Cleaning and Maintenance
Cleaning - Cooktop
Daily Cleaning
Cleaning Guidelines
Avoid these Cleaners
Table 9: Cooktop Cleaning Chart
Cooktop Part/Material
Burner Base / Enameled Steel
Caution:
Do not use any cleaner on the cooktop while the surface is hot; The
resulting fumes can be hazardous to your health. Heated cleaner can
chemically attack and damage surface.
Caution: All ignitors spark when any single burner is turned on. Do not
touch any of the burners when the cooktop is in use.
Wipe with a warm soapy water; Rinse and dry. After a spill or boilover, turn off the
burner and allow the cooktop to cool. Clean around the burner and burner ports.
Reassemble burner(s) and check for proper operation.
•
Glass cleaners which contain ammonia or chlorine bleach. These ingredients
may permanently etch or stain the cooktop.
•
Caustic Cleaners
•
Oven cleaners such as Easy Off® may etch the cooktop surface.
•
Abrasive Cleaners
•
Metal scouring pads and scrub sponges such as Scotch Brite® can scratch
and/ or leave metal marks.
•
Soap-filled scouring pads such as SOS
•
Powdery cleaners containing chlorine bleach can permanently stain cooktop
•
.Flammable cleaners such as lighter fluid or WD-40.
Suggested Technique(s)
•
Detergent and hot water; rinse
and dry.
•
detergent-filled steel wool pads
®
such as Brillo
or S.O.S.
and dry.
®
can scratch the surface.
Important Reminders
•
Clean ports with a stiff nylon bris-
tle toothbrush to clean port open-
ings.
®
. Rinse
•
Do not scratch or gouge the port
openings
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