Melted a cotton dish towel on my new glass-top stove, HELP!

[Anonymous]

Am I screwed?? I was using the burner but had turned it off a few minutes earlier so the burner wasn't red. The doorbell rang and I quickly sat the towel down not realizing i was sitting it on the hot stove-top. Now it's melted and turned hard. Ugh, I am so pissed. Really hoping someone can tell me how I can get this off my stove. I'm beginning to think buying a glass top stove was a mistake.

[Anonymous]

OP here, just to clarify, the entire towel didn't burn. I quickly smelled something and grabbed the towel, but by then some of it already melted on the stove.

[Anonymous]

BTDT -- my favorite item for my glass cooktop is my Pamper Chef plastic scraper!

You need to turn the burner back on VERY low and soften it. The minute it starts getting soft turn the burner off. Use the scraper to carefully scrape it off. What you can't get off try some white vinegar. Let is soak in then wipe/scrape. Repeat until it all comes off.

Go very slowly and carefully. Let is cool off before doing the vinegar.

[Anonymous]

You should google it or call the company's help line. Someone has done it before. My first thought on it is, its a mix cotton blend. The stuff stuck to the stove top is the melted plastic/blend, cotton burns at a low temperature and turn to ash. If you heat it, the plastic should burn to ashes. Like cleaning your oven. It will stink and may burn with a flame, but it will come off. Call the company before you do anything.

[Anonymous]

Bar Keepers. I prefer the powder over the liquid but both are good. And, a gentle scrub pad. It happens to me a few times a year. Its no big deal.

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[Anonymous]

Cotton doesn't melt, it burns.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks everyone for the advice/suggestions. I'm not as freaked out as I was at first. I have to make a baked good for my kids classroom holiday party tomorrow so don't have the energy to tackle it tonight, but I'll try tomorrow.

To the PP, well perhaps it wasn't cotton, the towel feels like cotton. Whatever it is, Ive got a hardened melted glob on my stovetop.

[Anonymous]

I think your stove is now defective. You should call and ask for a refund.

[Anonymous]

It wasn't a cotton towel -- it has some nylon or plastic in it. You need to gently scrape at it with a relatively sharp object - like a razor blade. (you don't scrape down, you scrap lightly across so you're only scraping the plasticky stuff off) Sometimes that plastic scraper thing isn't enough. There is also a solution that uses white vinegar and cream of tartar (google it -- I did it and it worked fabulously). You just keep scrubbing, scraping, and polishing. When it's all done, do a round of ceramabrite-type cleaner.

I've done it with a plastic produce bag and some kind of disposable plastic container lid. Have resurrected the stovetop twice.

[Anonymous]

I've melted Tupperware, ziplock bags, all kinds of shit. Reheating does help. With the plastic stuff --it smells for awhile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've melted Tupperware, ziplock bags, all kinds of shit. Reheating does help. With the plastic stuff --it smells for awhile.

I was the first responder. I like you. I think we could drink wine together while our kids beat each other up and everything melts on our stovetops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTDT -- my favorite item for my glass cooktop is my Pamper Chef plastic scraper!

You need to turn the burner back on VERY low and soften it. The minute it starts getting soft turn the burner off. Use the scraper to carefully scrape it off. What you can't get off try some white vinegar. Let is soak in then wipe/scrape. Repeat until it all comes off.

Go very slowly and carefully. Let is cool off before doing the vinegar.

This! I use my pampered chef plastic scraper all the time. I was going to write the same thing, but didn't know how to describe it or think of anything similar. I didn't know others might know what this is, but it's perfect for glass top stoves.

[Anonymous]

cleaning micro fibre cloth off cooktop

[Anonymous]

Let it cool down completely and then apply Weiman glass cook top cleaner and scrub with a glass cook top scrub pad (don't use anything too abrasive -like a Brillo pad - or you will get scratches - not what you want).

I've never baked a towel onto my cook top but I've had plenty of different types of food baked onto it and the cleaner/scrubber always gets it off.

[Anonymous]

Put a book for the towel close by. This is a bad habit and needs to be broken pronto.

I nearly had a visitor burn down my home b/c she kept putting the kitchen towel on the stove while using it even though I kept reminding her not to. When the towel started to singe, she finally got the message.