This seems to be the place of very knowledgable people who make mistakes like the one I'm fixing to mention and learn how to fix up a problem...so here I go:

So my parents are out of town for the weekend. I had just got back to work and was pretty thirsty. I figured I'd make a pitcher of fresh brewed tea. I fill up the keddle and put it on our 6 month old Kenmore flat top electric range, and crank it up to high. I walk away and get on my laptop to check my e-mail. Needless to say I forgot about the keddle of water, and about an hour later I smelled something burning. I ran to the kitchen to find the keddle red hot and the plastic handle was melting. Apparently, the wistling function was messed up because I was right around the corner and never heard it whistling (yes, I had water in it).

After I took the keddle off and let everything cool down, the entire footprint of the keddle was marked on the ceramic top of the range. My parents have been taking very good care of it and have the specail pad to clean the top without scratching it. It has a course side to it so I started scrubbing with that. Most of it came off except for a mark about the size of 4 quarters side by side. It will not come off. I really don't think that the surface is damaged, but that the cheap coating on the under side of the keddle baked onto the ceramic top. This identical mark that was on the entire footprint of the keddle I was metnioning is the same look at the mark that is left over. So I'm pretty sure it will come off, but I just don't know what to use in order to get it off.

Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any solvents that I could use that would not damage the finish, but help me remove the mark. My parents aren't going to be mad or anything, they make mistakes to, but I'd rather get this off if I could.

Thanks!

 

my glass top stove says to use a razor blade to scrape anything that wont come off with a damp rag.

They should also have a bottle of polish that you might be able to work the rest out with.

 

What he said, lay the razor down on a hard angle. Look around for the cleaner that they sell for ceramic surfaces.

 

I will never own another flat-top/slick-top range.

The few I have had didn't last a month before something eat big pitted holes in the surface.

Also, the burners won't last.

Good old-timey replaceable burners for me.

 

Try lemon juice and baking soda.

 

Was it stuck to the stovetop? If not you might have lucked out, especially if it was not an enameled teakettle...

My father-in-law did the same exact thing to their Kenmore flat topped ceramic range.. The enameled teakettle's porcelain glazing melted and fused to the cookstove top. After it cooled some, he pulled it, and it came off alright..., complete with part of the porcelain burner surface! It messed up the rest of the surface of the burner where the bright red glazing was permanently fused onto the remaining flat surface of the cooktop element... UUUUGLY!
He replaced it with the jet-black Whirlpool cast-iron burner type range and was very happy with it. Virtually indestructable, yet each burner was replaceable in case the unthinkable happened...

Sorry, but those marks can be very permanent...

K.