Home, Home on the Range

So if you've been paying attention lately you might remember that I moved.  Again.  Does it seem like all Jamie & I do is move??  It does to me.

But we should be settled here for a good 6 or 7 months...KIDDING, kidding.  For the rest of our lives.  Or at least until my 12 year old heads off to college.  That's my plan anyway.  I hate moving with a red hot passion of a thousand burning suns.

Anyway, I digress.

When we bought this house, we did so realizing there were a crapload handful of cosmetic things we needed to do for this place.  But, we had some cleaners come in and clean it up before we moved in so it would be nice and spiffy looking for our arrival.

Most of it WAS pretty spiffy looking and clean when we moved in.  Except for the glass top stove.  There was something kind of cruddy and gross looking on it.  And regular cleaners were NOT cutting it.  I even used the special glass top cleaner we had at our old house for our other stove.  Nada.  Zip.  Zilch.  The cruddy junk was NOT moving.  I knew that I SHOULD bust out a razor blade and scrape the junk off, but you know how it is when you just move.  I'm lucky I could even find underwear this morning, forget about straight edged razor blades for cleaning crud off the stove.

So I did what any normal red blooded gal would do - I turned to Pinterest, the source of all goodness and light.  And timesucking.

I found this - from Behind the Studio.


It seemed to be just what I was looking for, and I quickly got to work.

This is my stove top before:


Blech.  I hate those ugly little scorch mark ring thingies.  Hate them.  Especially because *I* didn't put them there.

The steps are pretty easy - 

1) Fill a bowl with hot hot hot tap water and liquid dish soap.  Submerge a rag into the water and get it nice and soapy.

2) Sprinkle a generous amount of baking soda on top of your stove top

3) Squeeze out about half of the water that has soaked into your rag.  You want it wet, but not sopping.

4) Lay your wet rag over the top of the baking soda covered stove.  Let sit for 15-30 minutes, depending on how soiled your stove top is.  

5) Scrub dirt and grime away!

6) Polish with a dry cloth and smile at your beautiful stove top.


I will admit this though - once this fully dried, I realized I had to do it a few more times.  I'm giving this process a one thumb up, one thumb down.  I think it's probably a great way to maintain a clean glass stove top, but I think I still need to bust out the straight edge razor to scrape the crud completely off.


It looks a hundred times better than it did before though!

Any stove top cleaning tips for me?