Quitamos la rejilla apoyatazas de la bandeja de goteo.

Yes. Quitamos is the 1st person plural present tense of quitar, so literally it means we remove.

In Spanish instructions, especially in manuals or step-by-step guides, this form is often used where English would simply say remove. So depending on context, Quitamos... can sound like:

• We remove...
• Let’s remove...
• or simply an instructional Remove...

This is very common in procedural Spanish.

Spanish manuals often avoid the direct imperative and use other forms instead, including the 1st person plural like quitamos, because it can sound more neutral and instructional.

Compare:

• Quitad la rejilla... = Remove the grille... (informal plural, used in Spain)
• Quite la rejilla... = Remove the grille... (formal singular)
• Quitamos la rejilla... = literally we remove the grille..., but often used in instructions as a neutral procedural step

So this is more a matter of style than grammar correctness.

Rejilla usually means a small grid, grille, rack, or grating.

It comes from reja plus the diminutive ending -illa, so it refers to something like a small metal or plastic grid. In this kind of appliance context, it is often the removable top piece that sits over a tray.

Apoyatazas is a compound noun. It refers to something that supports cups, so in context it means something like:

• cup rest
• cup support
• cup stand

Spanish often forms these appliance-part words as a single compound, similar to words like:

• abrelatas = can opener
• lavavajillas = dishwasher
• parabrisas = windshield

So apoyatazas is not written as two separate words here.

Not exactly. Apoyatazas is really a noun used to modify another noun.

In la rejilla apoyatazas, the main noun is rejilla, and apoyatazas specifies what kind of grille it is: the cup-support grille.

This is similar to how English often stacks nouns together, as in:

• coffee cup
• kitchen table
• drip tray

So apoyatazas is functioning like a label or classifier for rejilla, not like a regular descriptive adjective such as grande or metálica.

There are two different relationships being shown:

• de la bandeja de goteo = from the drip tray
• inside that phrase, bandeja de goteo = drip tray

So:

1. Quitamos la rejilla apoyatazas de la bandeja de goteo
   = We remove the cup-support grille from the drip tray

2. bandeja de goteo is itself a set expression meaning drip tray, literally tray of dripping / tray for dripping

The first de shows where the grille is removed from.
The second de helps form the compound expression bandeja de goteo.

Goteo is a noun meaning dripping or drip.

It comes from the verb gotear = to drip. So:

• gota = drop
• gotear = to drip
• goteo = dripping / drip

That is why bandeja de goteo is the usual way to say drip tray.

Spanish uses definite articles more often than English does.

Here:

• la rejilla apoyatazas
• la bandeja de goteo

Both refer to specific, known parts of a machine, so Spanish naturally uses la with each noun.

English might sometimes omit an article in technical labels, but Spanish usually keeps it in a full sentence.

Because del is only the contraction of de + el.

• de + el → del
• de + la stays de la

Since bandeja is feminine, we say la bandeja, so the phrase is de la bandeja, not del bandeja.

Yes. Quitar is a very common verb with a broad meaning: to remove, to take away, to take off, depending on context.

For example:

• quitar la tapa = remove the lid
• quitarse la chaqueta = take off your jacket
• quitar algo de un sitio = remove something from somewhere

In your sentence, remove is the most natural translation because it refers to taking off a machine part.

Yes, it is completely normal.

The structure is:

• Quitamos = verb
• la rejilla apoyatazas = direct object
• de la bandeja de goteo = prepositional phrase showing source/origin

So the sentence follows a very standard pattern:

Verb + object + from where

That makes it sound natural and typical of instructional Spanish.