Need paint for stove top

A. Hi Carol. I want to keep saying, so there is no misunderstanding, that paint is not porcelain enamel (which is essentially colored glass melted onto the surface). You can get appliance touch-up enamel ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] in different colors, or even tint them if needed. For small chips they do a good job of eliminating the stark black & white contrast that the chip causes. But the bigger the bare spot the more likely to catch your eye, so the less satisfactory the solution -- but it's a lot better than nothing.

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A. You might look in a fireplace shop if you don't see high-heat enamel at the hardware store. But the original finish on the stove is probably a porcelain enamel. This is not paint, but more like glass that was melted on, and you will not be able to match its quality. I'd be happy to hear from someone who has enjoyed success at this but I think it would prove to be a mistake trying to change the color that way.

A. Either Krylon (Krylon BBQ & Stove ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] ) or Rustoleum (Rustoleum high heat Bar-B-Que paint [affil links]) makes this type of paint, which is supposed to be for BBQ grills, etc. But, if you go to their website, they say they don't recommend it for stoves/ovens. Go figure. You might want to look at their sites and contact customer service for more info.

A. James, there are small nail-polish style bottles of ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] . My experience is that a chip can be made reasonably inconspicuous with such a product.

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A. I found this on that Stove Bright website. Looks like we all should start shopping for a new unit :

A. Thanks, Summer.

No, Lynn, unfortunately, someone did not paint them originally
... someone porcelained them, that's the thing. Porcelain is not paint, where you have pigments dissolved in a solvent. Rather, porcelain is more like spraying with molten glass. The porcelain frit is actually melted on at temperatures of thousands of degrees.

Whereas you can apply a dab of touch-up paint to a kitchen stovetop and make a chip less conspicuous, or paint a wood stove or Bar-B-que grill with a high temperature paint, the hard, thick, glossy, super-temperature-resistant, food-safe stuff you see on a kitchen stovetop isn't paint -- it's closer to colored glass. I don't think you will be successful in trying to change its color with paint -- but again if anyone was successful we'd like to hear it.

A. A few ideas for el cheapo stove top refinish. I'm thinking of trying automotive engine paint containing ceramic. Several brands can be found on-line by searching "automotive engine paint." These are formulated for high heat, glossiness, and resistance to grease, dirt, scratching, etc. It comes in black, red, blue, and probably a few other colors. I will first go to an automotive parts retail store to read a can for any toxicity warnings that would be pertinent to this application. Also, I did find stove/heater paints available online in clear-coat. A clear-coat applied over black could possibly provide a smooth, glossy finish, depending on the product.

And finally...I checked the parts list for my range for the part number for the range top, went online and found that I can by a black top for my white stove for $76 plus S&H.

A. Hello, I think this may solve some problems. I know they have this product in smaller volumes. If you contact the company directly they may be able to help. Porc-a-fix has matches to most appliance maker's colors. We used this on our range to fix the stove top and it did the job: porc-a-fix.net/index.htm .

A. I have found for small chips in the porcelain you can repair these with porcelain filler and touch up meant for sinks and tubs available at your home centers.

For recoloring it requires too much work disassembling, and reassembling and cost too much to re-porcelain the cook surfaces and sides.

New units are less expensive to purchase.

A. My bisque-color gas stove was looking pretty awful with a lot of tiny scratches near the burner. I did the same research as most of the other respondents and I decided I had nothing to lose by trying a high heat paint. I only experimented on the area around the worst looking burner. I used rustoleum almond high heat paint, followed by clear engine paint. Almond was a bit darker than the bisque but it looked much nicer when finished.
In a few weeks, the paint began to darken and I noticed a small area that I missed with the clear paint wasn't as dark as the rest. So I very lightly sanded and repainted with just the almond paint. It doesn't have the high gloss finish but it withstands the heat better than the clear engine paint. I've reconciled myself to the fact that one can of paint will last a long time, even if I need to repaint every 8 weeks or so to combat the ever-darkening almond. Eventually I'll replace the whole thing but given a choice of the before or after picture, I'd choose to paint again.
Those of you looking for a dark color may have more success. Good luck!

A. We recently renovated our kitchen on a budget and I was determined to change our almond electric stove to black. I read, with high interest, the previous comments/letters and for a brief time felt I might put my ambitions aside. But the darn stove was soooo ugly that I figured "what the heck!"

So I purchased glossy black high heat engine spray paint at our local Canadian Tire automotive dept...2 cans I felt would do it...it didn't...I ultimately needed a third can. I taped and readied the stove and covered everything in the kitchen with plastic drop sheets as well as long sheets of heavy-duty paper...floor, cupboards, walls, etc. Put on my oldest paint cloths and athletic shoes, donned my breathing mask and began with the pullout pots & pans drawer which I had removed. Even though it was early Feb., I even opened all the windows in the kitchen for good ventilation. So far so good!

I'm spraying along loving the look of it already...it dried fairly quickly and didn't appear to be as glossy as I'd hoped, but I still liked what I was seeing. It was also a real effort to try to keep it uniform...some areas just seemed to take the paint better than others even though the entire stove had been prepared well. But I sprayed and I sprayed and finally the first coat was done. And that's when I started looking around me....

Long story short, even though everything was covered with plastic and/or heavy paper, the airborne paint particles had seeped in between and through it all and all I could think of was "thank goodness I'd worn my mask." In any case, I couldn't just stop, right? I mean, if I thought the stove looked bad before, right now it was downright pathetic. Not to mention the fact that I couldn't imagine explaining this one to my fiance whom I knew would be gone till about 7:00 p.m. that evening...I still had half a day...surely I could fix this up. So while waiting for the paint to completely dry on the stove, I began removing some paper and plastic and washing everything down...what was white before was now close to a charcoal grey. And, yes, I finished that only to know I'd be doing it all over again.

So, on I went to the second coat after resealing the plastic and paper. The second coat looked even nicer, but the mess was there yet again as I'd suspected it would be...and my white athletic shoes were now black and completely ruined....and to add insult to injury, I was just about out of paint yet knew a third coat would be required. So it was a change of clothes, washing up and off to Can. Tire once again. I bought 2 more cans (but only used about 3/4 of the third can.)

Back home to pick up where I left off after changing to the painting clothes and shoes again. Just glancing at the "charcoal colored" surfaces of the surrounding areas was somewhat depressing, so I tried my best to ignore them. I gave the entire stove its third and final coat and then began the extensive cleanup. I tell you, I'd no idea just how far-reaching spray paint particles could go! I finished washing everything down multiple times by 6:10 that evening and had everything aired out well. My fiance came home and was fairly impressed with the end result of the old almond stove that was now black.

Would I do it again? NO! Am I glad I did it? ABSOLUTELY! Was I/am I pleased with the results? I wasn't so much at first because just touching the stove lightly with a cloth left a black residue on the cloth, BUT I turned the oven on a number of times on high heat and that seemed to help the paint to cure. And the more it cured, the less that happened. Within 2 weeks, there was no residue at all and in fact, what we noticed was that the more time that went by, the nicer the finish was becoming. And now we both really like our "new" stove. It's been nearly 2 months now, the renovations are complete (finally!) and the stove looks absolutely wonderful in the midst of it all (we both agree that leaving it almond would've ruined the look of the re-do). Oh, by the way, our electrician was in during the renovations to install our new range hood and thought we'd bought a new stove!

So that was my experience with painting the kitchen stove. Don't know if passing this along will help anyone, but it's here for the info. Good luck to all of you contemplating doing anything along the same lines!

Brenda

A. YES you can paint your stove. I've done many of them and depending on your stove you may not even need a high temp paint. Using an infrared heat probe on a digital multi meter I found most stove tops do not go over 120 degrees Fahrenheit with the oven on 500 and all four stove eyes on high for one hour. Over on HGTV's Rate My Space website I have posted pictures of a stove I painted copper using Rust-Oleum car primer copper spray paint and Min Wax acrylic polyurethane sealer high gloss. To view search for awalls. Good luck; also there are many brands and colors of specialty Stovebright Mojave Red paint [affil links].

A. Stove tops cannot be just repainted. They have to be re-porcelained to withstand the heat. After much research I found several companies in Cal who re-porcelain, mostly for antique appliances but do modern ones as well. To change my almond cook top from almond to gloss black is $250.00 plus shipping. They will keep it about 15 days to allow for removal of the existing porcelain, re-porcelaining and proper aging before reshipping. Their website is antiquegasstoves.com. There are several other places if you google for re-porcelaining stoves.

A. I wanted to paint my white stove black so I tried Rustoleum high heat ultra in a semi gloss black. The result is not good. The stove top scratches very easy and the paint has chipped off with cleaning. I just keep the paint can handy. I wish I had found this site before paint day. Do not use this paint for the stove. My next option is automotive paint.

Hello! Thank you for posting what some of us were thinking while reading the above posts.

Thank you!! I had profound concerns about painting the stovetop with high-temperature paints. You helped me with my decision. Again thank you.

A. The issue with most high-heat paints is that they are flat to satin. This makes it a challenge to clean well, especially since it gives food & dirt a nice rough surface to cling to. Go for a glossy high-heat paint or a clear gloss covering. Many of these paints have curing instructions for best wear & adhesion. Some are rather complex, but this will make for longer wear & better looking results

Cheers !

A. I changed the color of mine by going to an auto parts store and getting engine paint (I used Dupli-color engine enamel with ceramic - gloss black). It has been over a year and it holds up to the high temps and very little chipping or scratching.

A. I came upon this thread and I'm really grateful for everyone's replies. I was getting mixed answers with some people saying the range could be painted while others say it couldn't. Here's where I recommend people to start:
1) contact the manufacturer of the product, describe to them what parts of the product you wish to paint and see if they offer their own touch up paint. If they do, then get all the details about that touch up paint and try to buy it for cheaper elsewhere. If they do not, then I personally wouldn't risk applying other types of paints in hopes of them working.
I wanted to touch up a patch of peeled paint on the control panel of my gas range (right about the stove top, so it would be in a high temp area). I called whirlpool and they contacted their research department who informed me that they do not offer paint for such an area and they do not recommend buying any paint to use in such an area.

A. Hi Chris. We appended your inquiry to a thread which will give you many perspectives on what went wrong and why, plus opinions about whether it is fixable. My take is that paint getting hot and discoloring is a very common thing which poses very little safety hazard. Good luck.

Regards,

A. Hi Susan. Any of the high temperature paints listed in the earlier dialogs will be fine -- clean the trim as well as you can, and look for a high gloss paint rather than a matte finish. None will come close to being porcelain though -- porcelain is essentially melted-on glass. Good luck.

Regards,

A. After reading all of these, I am definitely going to try this. I mean it's an old stove, It can't look worse than it does now. I plan to use the RustOleum High Heat Ultra Gloss. I'll let you know how it turns out.

A. Hi Theresa, hi Jody. I can't see any reason to think this would be unsafe. An oven will surely not get as hot as an engine.

But I personally would not put it on a food surface like a countertop. Further, it's not going to have the durability normally associated with kitchen appliances, so you'll have to clean carefully. Good luck.

Regards,

A. Hi Marilia. While the phrase 'wood burning stove' should probably mean a very old kitchen stove which burns wood rather than gas, a lot of people call their airtight living room wood burners a "wood stove", so I'm not quite clear whether you are talking about something you cook on, or heat a living room with :-)

Kitchen wood stoves usually needs porcelain rather than paint, so if it's in the kitchen please leave it be.

It's hard to guess what a "piece of white glossy metal in front/top" is. If it is shiny bare metal, you probably should give a coat of Self-etching primer ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] followed by Satin Black Stove paint [affil links] . If it is porcelain on metal (similar to the top of a white kitchen gas stove like in Chris' picture above, you can try the same routine, but paint might stick only poorly. Good luck. Send a photo to mooney@finishing.com if you can.

Regards,

A. Hi. I wouldn't use auto paint on a wood stove, I'd use an etching primer followed by stove paint ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] . Good luck.

Regards,

A. Hi Stephen.
As long as you understand the vast difference between porcelain and "with porcelain", yes, you can probably use engine paint, stove paint ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] , or Bar-B-Q paint.

Porcelain is not paint! -- it's much closer to glass than to paint, being melted onto components at thousands of degrees. "With porcelain" just means a regular solvent-based paint, but which has grit particles in it; it's closer in nature to sand paint than to porcelain.

High temperature paint with or without porcelain grit can resist pretty high temperatures, but it's not the same thick, shiny, highly abrasion resistant, glass-like, easily cleanable, food-safe surface.

Luck & Regards,

A. I spent a few years coating appliances. Two appliances use porcelain as a component, top of stoves and washing machines. Stoves due to temperature, washing machines for chemical resistance (detergent). The only paint that resists heat is silicone-based paints, and they are only good to about 700 ° F.