Why is the stove covered with foil?

The most hated type of cleaning for many is cleaning the kitchen stove. It’s better to wash the entire apartment from top to bottom ten times. And yes, the “don’t get dirty” option can probably only be offered by those who have never cooked, and, perhaps, by some professional chefs. No matter how carefully you cook, food keeps trying to leave the pot or frying pan, and splashing boiling oil in different directions is already a classic of the genre. But you can try to solve the problem with a simple life hack - foil on the stove!

Why cover the stove with foil?

I think you already guessed it yourself. Oil may get on the cook, but not on the foil-covered stovetop, so no more hassle with cleaning up caked-on grease! Let the food run as much as you like! You can safely scoop up food with a spoon or fork and try it over the stove without fear that something will drip - let it drip! After all this obscenity, all you have to do is remove the foil, roll it up, throw it away and lay down a new one. That's all!

Reference! In addition to making cleaning easier, this life hack has the bonus of faster cooking, since all the heat from the fire will be directed directly to the pots and pans, without spreading over the surface of the stove.

Aesthetes may be indignant that it is not very beautiful: “You cook as if you were on a space station from Soviet films about the future.”But many do not see anything unaesthetic in Soviet films about the future (although this is another question). There is a “reinforced concrete” counter-argument to this argument - when cooking there is usually no time for aesthetics, especially if it is done in a hurry.

Do you know when it comes to aesthetics? When you sit down with your family (or your cat, whichever you prefer) in front of the set table, the stove nearby will be sparkling clean, and the foil that has done its duty will end up in the trash can, curled up into a ball and forever hiding your dirty little culinary secrets in its arms.

How to properly cover a gas stove with foil

There is nothing complicated about this:

• buy foil at the nearest store, the wider the better;
• you sigh heavily for the last time and scrub the stove until it’s perfectly clean, reassuring yourself that you won’t have to do this again;
• lift the grill, remove the gas burners;
• cut the foil to the width of the surface with allowance for borders and edges;
• lay it down;
• carefully cut out the holes for the burners with a knife;
• return the burners to their place and lower the grill on top;
• cook, imagining yourself as an old-school astronaut.

Is it possible to cover a stove with a glass-ceramic surface with foil?

But this is really a problem. After digging into this issue, I found several opinions.

First, optimistic - everything is fine. Cover it like a regular stove, cook, I’ve done it a hundred times and recommend it to everyone.

Second, pessimistic - no, no, and again no, decisively and unequivocally! The foil will burn and you will ruin your poor stove forever!

Third, realistic - well, of course, you can try, but it’s better not to. Firstly, the foil will slide, it will have to be secured somehow, but that’s not so bad.Secondly, and this is the main thing, the heated foil layer sticks to the surface almost tightly, and if it is not removed immediately, see the point with a pessimistic opinion. So think a hundred times - do you need it? Keep your eyes on the foil all the time and be ready to immediately scrape it off if something happens - isn’t that what we do when cooking? But scrubbing food will still be easier.

Reference! There is an alternative material in the form of special heat-resistant silicone pads, but this will cost much more than foil.

The decision is yours, but if you have an enameled stove, then covering it with foil is a great solution.