If you have electric range (gas range too for that matter), every time you cleaning the drip pans, you may wish to purchase new ones instead of trading your back by scrubbing it the old fashion way.

But it doesn’t have to be!

Based on our experience, cleaning the drip pan is a pretty simple task.

You just have to understand and establish proper habits on maintaining and cleaning the drip pans.

The quality and how well the drip pan is made is important.

Many times the most reliable drip pan is the one originally comes with the stove, since the manufacturer would make the drip pan to last along with the stove for their brand images.

Knowing this, keeping the original factory drip pan tiptop would be your priority in saving the headache later.

As with all metal, porcelain or aluminum finishes, keeping the shining polish on the drip pan is the key.

First, all we need is green Palmolive dish soap, soft washcloth or sponge.

You might be asking: why, these are not enough!

But remember we are to maintain the drip pan and keep it as close to new as possible retaining those original polish on the drip pan so dirt and grease can not easily stick to them therefore making it easy to clean like washing your dishes!

With that said, you must pay attention to when to clean your drip pan. For example, when you have an overflow on the drip pan while you are cooking, you need to clean the drip pan soon after when it cools down to the touch.

Just use the dish soap, use plenty, give it a good squeeze, and a soft sponge or cloth then turn your faucet flow to drip little water as you want the plenty of the soap to interact with the grease on your drip pan as you clean.

Then repeatedly wipe and clean with soft cloth or sponge (never use a harsh abrasive material) until you can’t really feel the bump on the drip pan from the grease.

Next rinse and finish, drip pan should be clean and looking NEW!

Why would we be able wash the drip pan with saturated dish soap and soft wash cloth without needing to use harsh abrasive scrubbing material to remove the sticky grease?

It is a simple science but at times (a reaction by looking at the yucky grease), it is counter intuitive.

When washed with lots of dish soap and a small amount of water, this saturated the soap and makes it a very powerful cleaning agent but not harmful to the shining polish finish of the drip pan. When using the soft cloth or sponge (sponge side of a scrub), this would repeatedly wipe away dirt and grease as the dish soap is activating and cleans away grease layer by layer until it completely cleans the drip pan.

The best part to this is that it cleans without scratch, therefore leaving the polish on the drip pan intact to prevent oil and grease permanently build up (when scratch happens, the drip pan is ruined even if you find a way to scrape away the grease by force and harsh chemicals)

Of course, depending on how well you maintain and clean your drip pans since new, you may not get every single bit of grease or dirt out but that is ok, as long you don’t let the grease build up.

However, a well maintained drip pan with the proper cleaning at the right timing would look new after every wash without any grease or dirt attached which makes your drip pans last and stove top looking new, and that is our goal here!