things you can just do: clean your stove
The other day, I was cooking and, embarrassingly, failed to perceive that my air fryer basket was right next to the pot. So, its exterior plastic handle melted onto the stove.
After I waited a bit for it to cool, I didn't have that much trouble getting most of the melted plastic off, but I was paranoid about leaving any of it — I'm surely already exposed to enough microplastics through other channels — so I looked into how to clean my stovetop more deeply than usual.
For three years before this incident, the stove had been enduring the spillage from my sloppy cooking. Every so often I would halfheartedly scrub it with various combinations of soap, baking soda, and vinegar, but it barely made a dent in the stovetop's march towards entropy. Well, turns out that for glass stovetops you can buy specific cleaning chemicals and a "safety scraper", a razor-sharp piece of metal that you scrape across the surface. As long as the scraper is held at a narrow angle from the glass, it doesn't scratch it.
I did it. It worked.
Three years of gunk came off. I was able to see parts of the stove's circular markings I thought I'd never see again and to read text labels I had forgotten ever existed. The chemicals helped too but I think the scraper was definitely the MVP. It was one of the most satisfying things I've done in a while.