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9 ways to clean your nasty stove drip pans

Your stove takes years of abuse, if you think about it. A pot of spaghetti boils over one day, and the next day it’s tomato sauce and cheese that drips over the dish and lands in the drip pan.

Days turn into weeks, and you still haven’t taken those drip pans out and cleaned them. Now they’re getting pretty nasty, and it seems like it would take a blow torch to get that baked-on food off of the drip pans and out of your sight.

Here are some of the web’s DIY remedies for cleaning your stove drip pans:

1. Dish soap and baking soda, according to frugalitygal.com.

2. Thriftyfun.com has a tip from a reader to boil them in vinegar.

3. This Pinterest experiment on whatsupfagans.com with baking soda, essential oils and vinegar seemed to work.

4. When all else fails, cleaningkitchen.com says oven cleaner works well.

5. One post on sfgate.com says to use a household scouring cleaner, and to scrub until clean.

6. On a post at onegoodthingbyjillee.com, you can put the burner pans in a zippered bag with ammonia.

7. Joyfulabode.com recommends using WD-40 to get those nasty drip pans looking clean again.

8. GE Appliances says porcelain drip pans can be cleaned with soap and water, and a splash of ammonia.

9. Here’s a unique tip from tipnut.com: boil the pans in a pot with a cup of Cascade detergent.