A shiny stovetop and another household hint poem for Poetry Friday

As you can see, I now have a shiny stovetop. You can see in the before photo that it wasn’t terrible before (at least not by my standards!). But I couldn’t figure out how to get a shiny stovetop no matter how much I sprayed and rubbed and wiped. So I did a google search and found these instructions on how to clean a greasy stovetop from Kitchn.

And then I wrote a poem about it:

The Shiny Stovetop Cleaning Poem

Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy,

Washing your stovetop can be easy.

First remove the grates and knobs;

In soapy water let them bob.

Drip some soap upon your sponge;

Grease and dirt you can expunge.

Wipe and rinse until the grime is gone

If you want, you can sing a song.*

When all is clean, wipe with a towel

Wipe and buff, but do not scowl.**

Wash the knobs and scrub the grates;

Gently return them to their place.

Now your stove is shiny and clean

Ready to  get all greasy again.

by Susan Bruck, November 2018

Poetry first, cleaning second

After I wrote the poem–the next day, in fact, I tried out this method of cleaning. The instructions said to drip dishsoap on a sponge or cloth and then run it under water before wiping–and to repeat until it’s clean.

Then you rub with a dry dish towel. I did it –and it worked! The shiny stovetop–hurray! I don’t know why I didn’t know how to do that, but I didn’t. And now I do. Praise to the internet (and to the folks at Kitchn!). That’s something that’s bugged me for a long time, but not enough to do anything about it until this week.

It’s Poetry Friday

And I think I was inspired by Poetry Friday. I wanted something to write a poem about, and Shiny Stovetop is what I came up with. I know–it’s pretty silly, but that’s how I roll these days. 

To see what other people are writing about for Poetry Friday, check out this weeks host, Jama’s Alphabet Soup. 

And that’s it for me this week. I’m off to look at my reflection on the top of my stove.

More household hint poems from recent weeks:

How to polish stainless steel-a household hint poem

How to get rid of clothes moths–a household hint poem

If I keep this up, I might have a clean house soon!

Thanks for stopping by.

xoxo