re: Glass Cooktops - How Fragile are they?

I do fairly well keeping mine clean.

Then my mom comes to town and cleans the kitchen after a meal and the damn thing looks brand new.

There shouldn’t be an art to cleaning a cooktop, but apparently there is.

You might also want to mention that induction cooktops only work with ferro metal pots.

Magnalite (aluminum) pots will not work.

I love them. Absolutely the easiest way to cook and keep clean there is. I use only calaphan or other high end pots and pans.with zero issues.

Word of caution, do not store anything in a cabinet close to the cooktop that could drop onto it and shatter it. Our spice cabinet was right next to the oven hood. A bottle of Cumin decided to end it all, and leapt from our spice cabinet onto our new glass top. It was an expensive lesson and a difficult thing to have replaced. I'd only store sponges and throw pillows in the surrounding cabinets if I still had a glass top.

They're pretty tough as long as you aren't dropping heavy items on them. My parents built a house back in the early 2000s and had a glass cooktop put in. Not sure why they didn't stay with gas, but that was their choice. They babied that thing, and it always looked great. I moved into my house in 2007, and it had the glass cooktop in it. I figured I would deal with it for a while then upgrade to gas. 13 years later and I can't kill the thing. Cast iron on it all the time. It gets dirty, but 5 minutes and some cooktop cleaner and it looks brand new. Whenever we do get around to doing a full kitchen renovation, I'm going with a 5 burner gas model, but I have to say the glass one has been way better than I expected it to be.

I have had em for years, never a problem....then a few months ago I knocked a wine bottle over on it and it cracked the back left corner to hell and back. I can not wait to get a gas range in the future.