What do you use to clean the glass on your stove? I have read all of the horror stories for years about how hard it is to get the soot off the glass of a wood stove. I’ve never had that problem. I use sprayway foaming glass cleaner and it is stupid simple. I spray a heavy coat on the glass, let it sit for 30 seconds to a minute and wipe with a paper towel. Spray a second, light coat on and wipe again….no streaks and perfect with no effort and less than 2 minutes. Been using it on my current NC 30 for the last 7 years with no problems.
I use a wet piece of news paper dippid in stove ash. wipe dry with another piece of news print. In fact when I bought this Jotul years ago the manual said to NOT use any type of amonia based glass cleaner on the ceramic glass. Why would a guy payfor glass cleaner when it's all right there in the stove?
Wet paper towels dipped in ash. I tried everything under the sun until I read this here. I honestly did not believe it but had to try. Holy smokes it really works! My glass was black for years no matter what I did until this, now crystal clear. Now every time I clean out ashes a quick cleaning and it stays like new.
The problem, and why some don't use the paper and ash trick is they either wet the paper towel too much or really put lots of ash on the towel; or both. Paper towel should only be damp, not soaking wet. Then just lightly touch the ashes to only get a little ash on the towel. It still works and is cost effective.
damp paper towel. It might be all the well seasoned eastern white pine I burn but the middle of the window is usually just a greyish film and the 4 corners clean up really easy. Don't even need the ash but I have tried it and it does work.
I have tried the ash and paper towel method as well. It does work, but not nearly as fast and clean as the sprayway glass cleaner. I use the damp paper towel and ash when I am out of the glass cleaner or whenever miss July has put it somewhere that I can’t find it.
