What’s your experience with light colored paint?

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Here are a couple of pictures of what happened after I heated the stove to 600 degrees.
The last one shows what happened when it got to 850. I was able to remove the paint by blowing on it.
I'm going to talk to the mfgr and see what they say.
 

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