The booking says “Deeply Scrub & Disinfect Stovetop”. You are in a kitchen you have never seen, in front of a gas range with grates on top and loose metal caps under them. The line names no grates, caps, burners or gas, and it names no pad, cleaner or order of work.
Below is a one-page card for that decision, with two fictional visits. It is a suggested personal record for independent cleaners, not a Hometress requirement, training standard or app feature, and it does not tell you which cleaner to put on a grate. The pages come from three appliance makers, KitchenAid, Whirlpool and Wolf, and were read November 2, 2026. That is three makers, not every range in every kitchen, and this guide does not claim otherwise. The task lines come from our published cleaning checklist.
The short answer
- The dishwasher is where the pages split. KitchenAid and Whirlpool both say “Some grates may be washed in the dishwasher” and send the reader to the owner’s manual to verify; Wolf says “Burner grates are not dishwasher safe.”
- Soaking points two ways. KitchenAid and Whirlpool say cooked-on soils on grates “should be soaked or scrubbed” before a dishwasher run; Wolf says “Do not immerse or soak burner grates in water” and says surface rust can follow long soaks or poor drying.
- Burner caps stay out of the dishwasher on the two pages that say anything about them, and both say “Do not reinstall caps on burners while wet.” Wolf’s grate page does not mention caps.
- All three bar cleaning the grates in the oven’s self-cleaning cycle, and the two that mention caps bar those too.
- Ours, not theirs: the card records which range, which part, what touched it and what you left. It sets no method.
What the sheet says and what it leaves open
Hometress’s published Deep list says “Deeply Scrub & Disinfect Stovetop”, and Move and Dream Home inherit that line. Move adds “Deeply Scrub & Degrease Stovetop”, and Dream Home inherits it too. Standard has no stovetop line. The verbs are scrub, disinfect and degrease.
The sheet does not say whether the grates and caps come off for a stovetop line, or whether they count as part of the stovetop at all. None of the three pages I read says anything about disinfecting. Our oven and glass-cooktop card says gas burners are outside what its two pages cover, so this card is the gas follow-on; the appliance-finish lookup covers appliance finishes, and the disinfectant label worksheet reads a disinfectant label against a task. This card does not repeat either.
Three pages, three makers
KitchenAid’s “Cleaning Burner Grates and Caps - Gas Range” page and Whirlpool’s “Cleaning Burner Grates and Caps - Gas Cooktop” page each show a “Last updated” label with no date in the page I read, and Wolf’s “Burner Grate Cleaning Instructions” page shows none either; its footer reads “© 2026 Sub Zero Group Inc.”, a copyright line and not a page date. The three are for different appliances: a range, a cooktop and, on Wolf’s page, grates for a model it does not name. Wolf’s page says the grates are “cast iron with a matte black porcelain coated finish”.
KitchenAid’s and Whirlpool’s pages share their wet-cap sentence and their grate-dishwasher passage word for word, so I count them as one wording on those points, not two independent confirmations. Their self-clean sentences differ by a word: KitchenAid’s reads “burner caps of grates” and Whirlpool’s “burner caps or grates”, and I read KitchenAid’s as covering both. The table keeps each page in its own row.
| Document | Dishwasher | Soaking | Pad and cleaner | Heat, wet caps and rust |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KitchenAid, Gas Range page (no date) | “Some grates may be washed in the dishwasher.” “Burner caps are not dishwasher safe.” Sends the reader to the owner’s manual to verify. | “Cooked/burned on soils on grates should be soaked or scrubbed before being placed in the dishwasher.” | Hand wash: “a mild abrasive cleaner, nonabrasive scrubbing, and warm water.” | “Do not clean the burner caps of grates in the oven during a self-cleaning cycle.” “Do not reinstall caps on burners while wet.” Acid spills “may affect the finish.” Do not bang grates and caps together, to avoid chipping. |
| Whirlpool, Gas Cooktop page (no date) | “Do not wash burner caps in the dishwasher.” “Some grates may be washed in the dishwasher.” “Use the most aggressive cycle.” | “Cooked/burned on soils on grates should be soaked or scrubbed before being placed in the dishwasher.” | “Nonabrasive plastic scrubbing pad and mildly abrasive cleaner.” | “Do not clean burner caps or grates in the oven during a Self-Cleaning cycle.” “Do not reinstall caps on burners while wet.” Acid spills “may affect the finish.” |
| Wolf, Burner Grate Cleaning Instructions (no date; © 2026 footer) | “Do not clean burner grates in the dishwasher. Burner grates are not dishwasher safe.” Caps are not on this page. | “Do not immerse or soak burner grates in water.” | “a no-scratch cleaning pad” with “hot water and mild detergent or a paste made of baking soda and water”. “Use degreasers or Easy-Off® Fume Free Oven Cleaner with a blue Scotch-Brite™ pad sparingly.” | Not in the oven on Self-Clean, and not heated “at high heat in the oven”. “Surface rust can occur if burner grates or oven racks are soaked for long periods or not dried thoroughly.” Rust: “fine grade steel wool”. “Acidic food spills, such as tomato sauce, can leave permanent stains.” |
Where a cell says something is not on a page, that is a statement about the pages I read, not about the makers’ other documents. The ® and ™ marks in the Wolf cell are the page’s own.
Where the pages do not line up
On the dishwasher, two pages leave it to the owner’s manual and one says never. I do not claim they contradict each other: some grates on two pages and burner grates on a third are about different ranges, and none of the three tells you which kind of grate sits in front of you. If no manual is available, the card has a row for “manual not seen”.
On soaking, the same word points two ways. KitchenAid and Whirlpool put “soaked or scrubbed” before a dishwasher run, so it is a step for a grate that is going into the dishwasher. Wolf bars soaking altogether and, in a separate sentence, says surface rust can follow long soaks or poor drying. These are different documents for different products. They do not give one answer for a grate of unknown make.
On the cleaner, the strength changes from page to page: a mild abrasive cleaner with nonabrasive scrubbing, a mildly abrasive cleaner with a plastic pad, and, on Wolf’s page, a mild detergent or baking-soda paste first, with degreasers or an oven cleaner “sparingly” and steel wool only for surface rust. I have not merged those into one product, and the card does not.
Where the three pages overlap is narrower than the cleaning step: none has the grates cleaned in the oven’s self-cleaning cycle, and the two that mention caps say not to put them back wet. Whether a grate may go in a dishwasher or a soak is not the same answer on all three, so I do not offer one.
The card
Copy this into a note, one card per stove. Work down the rows in order; the right-hand column is what to write when you cannot fill a row in.
| Field | What to write | If you cannot fill it in |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Line and stove | The sheet line (“Deeply Scrub & Disinfect Stovetop”, or on Move and Dream Home “Deeply Scrub & Degrease Stovetop”) and which range. | The sheet does not say how many burners or whether the grates are part of the line. Write what you found. |
| 2. Range as identified | Gas or not, the maker and model if a label, the manual or the client’s note show them, and how you know. | Write “maker unconfirmed”. If it is not a gas range, this card does not apply. |
| 3. Page followed | KitchenAid, Whirlpool, Wolf or none, and whether the owner’s manual was seen. | No page above covers a maker you could not identify, so write that you followed none, and “manual not seen”. |
| 4. Parts and condition before | Grates (any worn or chipped coating, rust), caps (loose, missing, wet), and what was on them: burnt-on soil, acid spills, residue. | Write what you saw. |
| 5. What touched each part | The pad, cleaner, water, dishwasher or “nothing”, for the grates and for the caps separately. | Write “hand wash only” if that is what it was. |
| 6. Dry and back on | Whether the caps were dry before going back (KitchenAid and Whirlpool: not wet), and whether you checked placement against the page or manual you followed. KitchenAid and Whirlpool print the right cap on the right base, flush, with very little side-to-side movement; Wolf’s grate page has no cap steps. | Write “not checked” and why, or “no cap instructions followed”. |
| 7. What was left | A part you did not clean, or a stain you did not chase, and why. | Write “none left”. |
| 8. Ask the client | A grate with worn or chipped coating, a missing cap, melted plastic, or a request to run grates through the dishwasher, the oven’s self-clean or a soak. | Tell the client and write what you left. |
What the sheet does not define
It does not define a stovetop, a grate, a method, a product or a time. The card is the habit that fills the gap: write what you saw, which page you followed and what you left. The same habit is in our final walkthrough scope check and our surface-by-surface check.
Two fictional visits
These visits are fictional. The kitchens belong to no real client, and none of the makers has endorsed the card. The circumstances are invented; what a page says and what is our suggestion are marked separately.
A Deep visit, range with no label
Line: Deep, “Deeply Scrub & Disinfect Stovetop”. Range: gas, with four black grates and loose caps; the client’s note says only “gas stove”, there is no visible label and no manual in the kitchen. Page followed: none, so “maker unconfirmed” and “manual not seen” are on the card. What touched the parts: nothing. I lifted nothing off and cleaned neither grates nor caps, because with the maker unconfirmed I could not tell which page would apply, and I asked the client for the make or the manual and wrote the question down (ours). The line also says disinfect; none of the three pages mentions disinfecting, so I wrote that in row 7 and chose no product from these pages. The card records what I did, not that it was right. Unresolved: the maker, and with it which page applies to the grates and caps.
A Move visit, a Wolf range with a chipped grate
Line: Move, “Deeply Scrub & Degrease Stovetop”. Range: the plate reads Wolf; the manual is not seen. Page followed: Wolf’s grate page. One grate has a chipped patch with grey metal showing. What touched it: the no-scratch pad with hot water and mild detergent, then a rinse and a towel, as the page’s steps run; no soak and no dishwasher, because the page bars both. The line says degrease and Wolf’s page allows degreasers “sparingly”; I used none and recorded that as my own call in row 7, and I did not chase the chipped patch. I wrote the patch down in row 4 and in row 7, and asked the client in a message what they wanted done about it; the page says a worn or chipped finish needs a new grate, and that is theirs to decide. Unresolved: the chipped grate.
What this guide leaves out
It recommends no brand, product or price: the Easy-Off and Scotch-Brite names appear only as Wolf’s own words, and the card does not adopt them. It covers no coil or electric top, and no glass top, which our oven and glass-cooktop card handles. It covers no maker other than the three, because no other maker’s page was read. It says nothing about the gas supply, igniters or pilots: it is about the parts that lift off. It gives no advice of its own on who is responsible if a grate is already chipped or a cap is missing. It does not cover pay.
Where a platform fits
Hometress is a cleaning marketplace in Philadelphia. It is free to join, and cleaners carry their own insurance. If writing down which page you followed is how you already work, the application takes about five minutes. This guide does not cover pay.