Knowing how to clean an electric stove top is key to keeping your kitchen cooker gleaming and working at its best. From crispy crumbs to splashes of sauce, cooking up a storm can be a messy business.

Glass stove tops can be a hassle to keep clean, and you may not want to run out and buy a specialty product. So use these household staples to clean instead.

A microfiber rag, like the kind Amazon sells for about $15 a dozen, is ideal for cleaning a glass cooktop because it is made of synthetic threads that are woven together very tightly. Here are the ...