Help! How to Clean the Oven?!

MentalMinnie

My oven is filthy! Needs a serious clean. It may actually require a professional to come and do it...maybe. Thought i'd try myself first. It's an electric oven. And it's manky. I'm all for the chemical approach as well! So any suggestions would be great!

MentalMinnie

Thanks! I have a bottle of that Oven Mate, but I wasn't sure whether to use it cos i thought it would run straight off the walls/side of the oven?! It doesn't have self cleaning facility so i'm guessing it'll be ok to cover the whole of the inside, bar the fan at the back?

kwatt

If it's catalytic liners, see if they can be removed first as a lot of them can for cleaning. They should just lift off but some can be, how can I put this delicately, a bit awkward and closely related to a pink farm animal.

If you get any oven cleaning stiff on them then they're ruined.

Anything on them can be burned off by running the oven really hot for 30 minutes or so.

Oven Mate is fine on the enamel surfaces and shelves etc., works rather well actually as I used it over the holidays to test it.

K.

MentalMinnie

kwatt wrote: »

If it's catalytic liners, see if they can be removed first as a lot of them can for cleaning.

Come again?! Are they something to do with self cleaning?! Cos if so, mine doesn't have that...

kwatt

Depends on what sort of self cleaning it is, does it have a pyrolytic function as, if it doesn't then the self cleaning function will be catalytic liners.

A pyro oven will heat up to about 400˚C or so and burn everything to dust. It's a special cleaning program.

K.

MentalMinnie

Ok. Theres definitely no self cleaning function on my oven. Cleaned it last night, it's no looking too bad!!

jbainbridge

I used Oven Pride (I think). Comes with a bag to put the shelves in. Looked almost brand new afterwards.

SuzieSue

I had the same problem and just stopped using it until I re-did my kitchen and got a new oven!

Anyway, once you have cleaned it get an oven liner from somewhere like Lakeland and you will not have the same problem again. I did and my new oven is still like new after 2 years.

MentalMinnie

jbainbridge wrote: »

I used Oven Pride (I think). Comes with a bag to put the shelves in. Looked almost brand new afterwards.

Thanks, was wondering how i was going to clean the shelves.

Chunks

Any item that is removable/cleanable eg. enamel splash guard can go in your 'bag' too. I have used black bin sacks in the past to good effect. Put in the items to be cleaned and take the bag outside (nice and airy and no worries about chemicals etc. in the house). Spray the items with your chosen cleaner, tie off the bag and let the items soak. Turn every now and then to redistibute the cleaner so it stays in contacts with the grime. Once clean, rinse off the (now) clean bits and bobs, dry and return the items to the oven.

With the job done, now put your feet up and work out how you can 'outsource' the task in future to (say) your partner.

cheers,

C

toffee'n'tom

definitely oven pride