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4 Best Cooktop Cleaners, Tested and Reviewed

Removing baked-on, greasy messes from glass and ceramic cooktops is pretty easy with some of the cooktop cleaners we tested

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Hand wiping stovetop, Weiman Wipes, Barkeeper's Friend, Affresh, Scrub Daddy cooktop cleaners
Keeping glass and ceramic cooktops clean can be tricky, but the dedicated cooktop cleaners we tested all worked, with varying degrees of effort required.
Photos: Getty Images, Consumer Reports

Gathering around the table for the holidays is one of my favorite things of the season. When it’s been my turn to host, I’ve enjoyed it right up until cleanup time rolled around. One look at my stove and I vow to never host another dinner again. The baked-on spills and splatters make me want to throw the whole stove away and start fresh with a new appliance.

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There are some messes that no dish soap, scrubby sponge, or multipurpose cleaner has been able to clean off my stovetop. For those with glass and ceramic cooktops, you also can’t use just any old cleaner—these surfaces are delicate and can be scratched if you use the wrong product. But fear not, there is a solution for this very normal problem: cooktop cleaners.

Cooktop cleaners are formulated specifically for glass and ceramic cooktops, and many of the models we tested worked really well with minimal effort.

To find the best cooktop cleaner for your cooktops, we put six to the test in our labs using baked-on pasta sauce, maple syrup, and pasta water. Starchy water stains were the easiest to clean and required almost no effort with any product.

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Consumer Reports Home & Trends Writer, Jodhaira Rodriguez.

Jodhaira Rodriguez

Jodhaira Rodriguez is a senior multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports. Before joining CR, she tested and wrote about cleaning and organizing products and major appliances like washing machines and dishwashers at Good Housekeeping. In her free time, you’ll find her reading, listening to true crime podcasts, or working on her latest hobby of the month.

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