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How to Clean Burner Grates and Caps

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Cleaning Burner Grates and Caps on your Jenn-Air Cooktop

If your grates or caps are looking dingy or dirty, effort to following to assistance clean them:

Cleaning method:

Important: Earlier cleaning, make sure all controls are off and the cooktop is cool. Soap, water and a soft cloth or sponge are suggested first unless otherwise noted.

Utilise nonabrasive plastic scrubbing pad and mildly annoying cleaner. Clean equally soon as cooktop, grates and caps are cool.
Do not clean burner caps or grates in the oven during a Self-Cleaning cycle.
Practise not launder burner caps in the dishwasher.
Some grates may be washed in the dishwasher. Employ the most aggressive cycle. Cooked / burned on soils on grates should be soaked or scrubbed before being placed in the dishwasher. Refer to your Owner's Manual to verify if grates can be washed in the dishwasher.
Food spills containing acids, such equally vinegar and tomato, should exist cleaned as presently as the cooktop, grates and caps are cool. These spills may affect the finish.
To avoid chipping, practise not bang grates and caps against each other or hard surfaces such equally cast iron cookware.

Reinstall burner cap:

Be sure the correct burner cap is on the correct burner base. The burner base and underside of the burner cap may have a mark indicating which burner cap and burner base of operations match.

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When reinstalling the burner cap; make sure the alignment pins are properly aligned with the burner cap as shown below. The burner cap should fit flush with the burner base and have very piffling side to side motility.

Exercise non reinstall caps on burners while wet.

Cap must sit correctly on burner head: The burner cap should fit affluent with the burner base and have very little side to side motion.

Cap must exist seated on the burner base to low-cal and perform properly. Typical burners shown below:

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Burner cap: E'er keep the burner cap in place when using a surface burner. A clean burner cap will aid avoid poor ignition and uneven flames. E'er clean the burner cap afterward a spillover and routinely remove and clean the caps. Do not reinstall moisture caps on burners.

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