[Sob] Is my new glass cooktop damaged?
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sandi-in-hawaii
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Hi Marilyn, my son welded a a pot onto my glass cooktop years ago...
He was boiling water to make the bubbles for a bubble drink, and left the stove on for about an hour.
Needless to say, the pot boiled dry, and melted onto the glass cooktop, and left a matte, black stain about 3" in diameter. I scrubbed and scrubbed with the cooktop cleaner, and I scraped and scraped with the razor blade thingie.
The mark remained, but it seemed okay to cook on it, so I've used it. At first, I worried that the black stuff would melt onto my other pots, but it didn't.
Over the years, the spot got smaller and smaller, and now you just see a little bit of the outline left.
I would hope that your stain would be less permanent, since yours is burned-on-food. Mine was burned-on-pot.
Good luck!
I tried to take a picture of it...
https://recipeswap.org/fun/wp-content/uploads/Finer_Kitchens/100_1452.jpg
He was boiling water to make the bubbles for a bubble drink, and left the stove on for about an hour.
Needless to say, the pot boiled dry, and melted onto the glass cooktop, and left a matte, black stain about 3" in diameter. I scrubbed and scrubbed with the cooktop cleaner, and I scraped and scraped with the razor blade thingie.
The mark remained, but it seemed okay to cook on it, so I've used it. At first, I worried that the black stuff would melt onto my other pots, but it didn't.
Over the years, the spot got smaller and smaller, and now you just see a little bit of the outline left.
I would hope that your stain would be less permanent, since yours is burned-on-food. Mine was burned-on-pot.
Good luck!
I tried to take a picture of it...
https://recipeswap.org/fun/wp-content/uploads/Finer_Kitchens/100_1452.jpg
So many good suggestions! Thanks all. I'll let you know the outcome. Here's CI's version for fluffy
brown rice (BR):
6 C water
2 tsp butter or oil
1 tsp salt
1 C brown rice
Bring water to boil. Add fat, salt and rice. Simmer 30 minutes.
Drain rice into steamer (see link for the type I use). Add an inch of water to the pot, add steamer, cover and steam 10 to 15 minutes. Fluff.
Grains were fluffy and separate and no cooktops were harm during the making of this dish. I pretty sure nutrients went down the drain with the water, but I'm good with that. Love BR with stir-fry veggies.
This is versus the "boil until it doesn't move anymore" cooking method our guest used. It ended up a solid, gelatinous mass and was so starchy we had to scrap lumps of it off the spoon onto the plate. Even cold, it failed for fried rice--the entire batch stuck to the bottom of the wok.
I fairly sure Niels Bohr would have been unable to differentiate brown rice electrons within this wad o' rice.
http://www.amazon.com/Amco-10957-Collapsible-Steamer/dp/B000Q4N2LO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1206444235&sr=8-2
brown rice (BR):
6 C water
2 tsp butter or oil
1 tsp salt
1 C brown rice
Bring water to boil. Add fat, salt and rice. Simmer 30 minutes.
Drain rice into steamer (see link for the type I use). Add an inch of water to the pot, add steamer, cover and steam 10 to 15 minutes. Fluff.
Grains were fluffy and separate and no cooktops were harm during the making of this dish. I pretty sure nutrients went down the drain with the water, but I'm good with that. Love BR with stir-fry veggies.
This is versus the "boil until it doesn't move anymore" cooking method our guest used. It ended up a solid, gelatinous mass and was so starchy we had to scrap lumps of it off the spoon onto the plate. Even cold, it failed for fried rice--the entire batch stuck to the bottom of the wok.
I fairly sure Niels Bohr would have been unable to differentiate brown rice electrons within this wad o' rice.
http://www.amazon.com/Amco-10957-Collapsible-Steamer/dp/B000Q4N2LO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1206444235&sr=8-2
amanda_pennsylvania
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The Washingonton Post food section food chat had a thread on this recently.
I'll try to find the solution that eventually worked. Apparently one of the food editors spilled a mixture of honey, molasses, and pomogranate juice on her glass stove top which then burned on. She called the stove company to see what they recommended and was told that she couldn't have spilled a worse combination if she'd tried with both hands.
I'll try to find the solution that eventually worked. Apparently one of the food editors spilled a mixture of honey, molasses, and pomogranate juice on her glass stove top which then burned on. She called the stove company to see what they recommended and was told that she couldn't have spilled a worse combination if she'd tried with both hands.
Marg, I don't really have a preference...have tried several brands and they all seem to
work the same. The one I'm currently using is called CookTop Magic and works great...photo and description at the link but I bought it at a local hardware store. These cleaning creams for cooktops work like a charm for eliminating the cooked-on and burned-on stuff that happens to glass and ceramic cooktops. I'd say just go with whatever one you can find that's inexpensive. Hope that helps.
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http://housewares.hardwarestore.com/35-176-kitchen-and-bath-cleaners/cooktop-magic-cream-101836.aspx
work the same. The one I'm currently using is called CookTop Magic and works great...photo and description at the link but I bought it at a local hardware store. These cleaning creams for cooktops work like a charm for eliminating the cooked-on and burned-on stuff that happens to glass and ceramic cooktops. I'd say just go with whatever one you can find that's inexpensive. Hope that helps.
)http://housewares.hardwarestore.com/35-176-kitchen-and-bath-cleaners/cooktop-magic-cream-101836.aspx
