How to clean grease from stove top?

[GrumpyDad]

I cooked bacon eggs and toast two days after I got the stove. You know, because I had to show I could to the wife. There may have been a few beers involved and I may have had a really small dinner that night.
I toasted a piece of toast on the griddle and it left a mark. And some grease splattered outside the cast iron skillet. Suggestions ?

 

[1kzwoman]

Cover with more bacon eggs and toast. I think you’ll have to refinish stove top.
I liked the cast iron steamer kettle but developed a discoloration on stovetop. Trashed kettle, lesson learned still have discoloration

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Its better to boil and bake.. never fey.. I cook/reheat/ boil on mine throughout winter, never looked like that.. youll probably be doing some refinishing come spring

 

[Eman85]

I fail to see the problem. It's your woodstove do what you like on it. Stains are like scars or tattoos, there's a story there.

 

[EbS-P]

It’s just like that first little scratch or door ding on a car. It’s sucks! But you know it’s just going to happen again.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

We cook on ours all the time. The grease burns off and you'd never know it was there.

 

[TomMcDonald]

Do what any self respecting stove owner does - lick it off.

 

[stoveliker]

While the fire is going; we like hot food, after all...

 

[Prof]

I have my wood stove in the basement--which is mostly unfinished. I don't care if it gets a bit messed up. There are plenty of signs that the stove is cooked on. I probably cook 2-300 meals a year on it. Like others have said, it is like a badge of honor to have a splatter or two--signs of a meal well cooked!

 

[begreen]

If the goal is to keep the stove good-looking, avoid things that splatter. We don't fry on the stovetop.
Try alcohol for the painted areas. The griddle can be steel wooled. The top may need a touchup paint in the summer. Use the VC recommended paint for an exact match.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

Paint?! On the top of the stove? Madness....

 

[begreen]

Paint?! On the top of the stove? Madness....

LOL. Most freestanders have completely painted stovetops. Some are enameled. A few, like VC have a brushed griddle top.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

LOL. Most freestanders have completely painted stovetops. Some are enameled. A few, like VC have a brushed griddle top.

Ours is bare and gets sanded once in a while.

 

[begreen]

Ours is bare and gets sanded once in a while.

As is appropriate for a real cook stove.

 

[GrumpyDad]

I like to see an old post resurrected, especially when I didnt see the responses to begin with

I havent tried to do anything. The griddle looks exactly the same as does the grease splatters. I rubbed some ash into the one grease spot, and brushed it away. Now I have an ash spot that wont go away.

I like the responses here like, hey that's a scar...an experience.. It's cool, but I would like to restore the look and avoid what is there now. Not that I keep my stove pristine, it's pretty dirty while I work in this area building it out as it's a new expansion and I work slow...

 

[yooperdave]

I used to brown hamburger on stove top for chili. No matter how careful, there was always some spatter onto the steel.

All I used was a dry paper towel to remove as much as I could (after stove cooled). Maybe a cloth rag once it first happened. Other than that, I do not ever remember seeing those splatter marks again. Hope this helps.

p.s. don't lick the stove while it's hot. Tom's messing with you!!