How to Clean Your StoveTop

I spent some time this last month, cooking and canning apples like you wouldn't believe. My house was full of apple butter, apple sauce, and apple juice. I have dried apples and frozen bags of apples. If I see another apple again, it will be a miracle :)

However, I spilled applesauce on my stove top and didn't notice it until it was a burnt on, crusty, nasty, yechy mess. I couldn't get it off, no matter what I did. I scrubbed and scrubbed, used Soft Scrub, and Bar Keeper's Friend. I had given up and decided that my stove top was going to be nasty permanently.
I asked a group of friends if they had any ideas and one came back with this one..."Put a fabric softener sheet on top of it then dip a sponge in the hottest water possible and place on top of softener sheet. Let it sit until the sponge cools. It should come of with little effort."
I tried it, and it worked! Golly, gee willekers, it worked!!!
I have heard of using fabric softener for different things, but this was the first time that I used it to clean my stove. Thanks, Amy! You saved my kitchen!