Stressing over ceramic/glass cooker stove!

[Chica10]

Hello,

My electric ceramic/glass cooker stove has marks around the rings that I just can’t remove with any of the products that I have used. Also there are tiny scratches everywhere . How do you remove these?

This is my first time owning an electric hob and its up keep is starting to really stress me out! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

CIF* worked for me.

(*other brands are available 🙂)

Thank you. How did you apply it? Did it work on really tough marks?

Cooking oil works well

You can get a scraper that has a blade, like a Stanley blade that's safe for hobs.

You need a cream cleaner like Hobrite or Cif. Rub it on with a cloth and then buff it up with kitchen paper.

I assume this is a pre-used hob, i.e. it wasn't you who made the marks and scratches?

All you can do is use the specialist products for ceramic hobs, using plastic pads , gentle scouring pads or a ceramic hob scraper. Whatever you do, don't use anything abrasive.

Thank you so much for your replies. No, this a fairly new hob that only my family and I have used. This is the first time I have had an electric hob and oven and it’s starting to become bit of palaver looking after it, for me personally. I’ve ordered the scraper for the stubborn marks and as for the tiny scratches I’ll just try to buff them out with glass polish and buffer. I miss my old gas cooker. You just give it a good scrub and that was it!

I use elbow grease all purpose degreaser to clean mine or sometime just hot water and generous splash of white vinegar. I wipe it off with a cloth wet with really hot water and then use a window squeegee to remove any residual water. I use a squeegee on my composite worktops too. If you have burnt on food you could try a little bit of oven pride, it doesn't seem to remove the markings on the cooker top. I'm afraid the scratches come from either the bottom of your pans or something abrasive under the pan when you move it around on the hob, there is probably a glass polisher which could get rid of them but I haven't tried.

I just accepted that it is an item used 1-2x a day and like any other used item it will suffer over it's lifetime.

Our induction hob is now 5 years old. There are some scratches from pots/pans being moved around too forceful and also if the plate and the pot aren't 150% clean, no crumbs, nothing.

We have one of these metal scrapers and they do work. Otherwise, I clean it with hot water and dishwash liquid.

We had gas hobs for years before and honestly, that one also had marks by the time it. was replaced.