Thursday, August 9, 2007

Question

How the hell do you clean an oven? Here is what I've tried so far:

1. Paper towel with water
2. Paper towel and Windex
3. Clorox Wipe

None of them worked. Whatever is on the bottom of the oven and on the inside of the oven door has been there since before I moved in.

How do I get it off? Can I use a box cutter to scrape it off? Something else?

Thanks.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

there are special oven cleaners that you spray into the oven and leave for a couple of hours, then clean out. they’re very aggressive and require rubber gloves but work quite good.
another less ecologically invasive possibility is hot water with common baking soda, left to soak for a while. that’s also good for pots and pans you’ve burnt something in.
or you could use those scraping things sold for glass-ceramic cooktops.
good luck!

Vinny said...

Oven cleaner- yeah, but bear in mind that the smell is extremely strong and can be harmful for people with breathing problems.

However, Auntie's smoking pretty much does the same thing. Just make sure you run the vent fan over the stove while you're spraying it.

Jason Dufair said...

Also, some ovens have a cleaning mode. It just heats the thing up to about a million degrees and turns everything in there into charcoal dust and you can just wipe it out. Look for "clean" on the settings somewhere. You usually have to lock the oven door for it to work.