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Kitchen Tip: Black Appliances

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Over at Tammy’s Recipes today, we are asking a kitchen ques­tion. What a fun idea! I am in need of sug­ges­tions for keep­ing my black appli­ances clean. I have a black sink and stove top that are help­less in keep­ing clean. They show every bit of dirt, but espe­cially water stains. Is there no options? I believe they are made out of porce­lain, if that helps any­thing. My stove top also accu­mu­lates a hard black sub­stance around the gas burn­ers that is crusted in and I can’t scrub off for the life of me. I have tried a scratchy and many dif­fer­ent clean­ing prod­ucts, but to no avail. Any thoughts for keep­ing it shining?


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11 Responses to “Kitchen Tip: Black Appliances”

  1. Amanda Says:

    I don’t have black appli­ances, how­ever I hear that microfiber cloths is sup­posed to work great on black appli­ances. Just google Microfiber cloths and I’m sure many web­sites will pop up where you can order some from :)

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  2. karol Says:

    I too have a black stove and I have found spray­ing it with a mix of a few drops of white vine­gar w/water makes it sparkle. I keep a spray bottle w/vinegar and water on my sink and use it for every­thing!

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  3. Tia Says:

    I use Windex on my stove w/then wiping w/a paper towel, after wiping it down w/a soapy rag. I don’t like streaks or water marks. And this works like a charm! I know have stain­less steel appli­ances, but I use to have black appli­ances.

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  4. Samara Root Says:

    Hi Lind­say,
    My Mom has a flat, glass-​top stovetop…if this is what you have…the stove­top we got came with a spe­cial scraper blade, because the black burned-​on stuff will only come off with a blade in my expe­ri­ence. They ought to sell that type of thing at Home Depot or some such store. The blade scrapes the burned food off but not the glass.

    Good luck!

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  5. Mandie Says:

    I have all black appli­ances and they have the shiny finish not the matte finish. There are a couple tips I have…the first, don’t use abra­sive cloths includ­ing paper towels. They can actu­ally put small clear coat scratches. These scratches, I’m find­ing, are inevitable, but the harder dish cloth fab­rics and such make it worse. Second, once a month or so, I take a black tinted car polish and polish them (you can get this stuff any­where includ­ing hard­ware stores. I think I got my last bottle at wal­mart). This helps repel the dirt and makes them look like new. In between waxing, I just use a soft damp cloth to wipe them down and another soft cloth to get rid of streak­i­ness. Hope that helps!!

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  6. Babychaser Says:

    I don’t know if this will help you or not as the sit­u­a­tions are a little different… My stove doesn’t get black on it, but it does get a brown­ish “stain” like some­thing that I can never wash off. I’d have to guess it’s from liquid spilling from a pan and cook­ing on (my stove top is white with gas ranges).

    Anyway, I had given up on ever seeing it beau­ti­ful again until the day I acci­den­tally left a stick of butter on the stove to “soften”. Forgot it was there and pre­heated my oven… before I knew it there was liquid butter (that’s soft right?) all over my stove top. I was not a happy camper as I imag­ined this would not be easy to clean up.

    Turns out a stack of paper­tow­els later that it cleaned up rather easily… and took all the cooked on stuff with it! That was unex­pected. It’s a long story… but if my prob­lem resem­bles yours, per­haps melted butter would help. :)

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  7. Tia Says:

    Baby­chaser, I believe her stove is black (came that way) by choice. Not because some­thing was left on there.

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    Tia replied on January 5th, 2008:

    Nevermind…maybe Lind­say can remove my post! I re-​read her post and she men­tions a hard black build-​up.

    Have you tried making a paste of Comet and a little water and allow­ing it to sit on the hard stuff?

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  8. Cherity Says:

    Lind­say,
    Just read this post…a little late I know! Anyway, my grand­mother got a flat top stove before I did and she showed me that you can remove the cooked on “crud” by using a razor blade. I usu­ally use a paste of baking soda and diluted castile soap with the razor as extra pro­tect­ing from scratch­ing. Just be care­ful to keep the razor flat to the sur­face to avoid scratch­ing it. I only do this about once a month, unless I make a huge mess that I can’t scrub off. Hope this helps!

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  9. Siemens Kitchen Appliance Fan Says:

    Lately, I’ve been using windex, water, and a dry rag to clean my black kitchen cook­top, sink, and refrigerator….seems to be the only thing that works!

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  10. I Love Cooktops Says:

    I agree with Siemens. The only thing to keep black kitchen appli­ances, sinks, refrig­er­a­tors is windex, water, and a dry rag.

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