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cleaning the oven

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  • moanymoany
    moanymoany Posts: 2,877 Forumite
    Oven Pride is the stuff for really grimed up cookers.

    Bicarb, Your local pharmacy can get you 1.5kilo tubs. The most I've paid is £5. I usually have to wait a couple of days and they want payment in advance.
  • THIRZAH
    THIRZAH Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    Chinese supermarkets sell large bags of bicarb for about £2.50.

    The best oven cleaner I've used is sold by Lakeland-it's a gel that you paint on and doesn't smell. I can't bear the smell of the spray on cleaners.
  • I use bicarb too, but I make up the paste (just with water) and leave it on over night. Then next day wipe it off. It does take a few goes but works eventually.

    I buy ours from our local weigh and save 20p for 100g
  • jaytar
    jaytar Posts: 160 Forumite
    Believe it or not but I actually used a sharp chisel on my oven door when I couldn't shift the burnt on stuff any other way. It worked perfectly !
  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
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    well the oven pride is painted on, i cant believe it really doesnt smell at all!
    still cant believe that anything can get this off but i will know by morning!!
    if not looks like it will be the chisel method :eek:
    thanks
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

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  • sare_2
    sare_2 Posts: 303 Forumite
    It might not sound very moneysaving, but if the OvenPride doesn't work, maybe try hiring an over cleaning company such as Cookerburra to clean it.

    You say it's a good oven, so paying £50-£60 to get every last bit of it cleaned to like new is better than paying for a new oven I think.
  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
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    sare wrote: »
    It might not sound very moneysaving, but if the OvenPride doesn't work, maybe try hiring an over cleaning company such as Cookerburra to clean it.

    You say it's a good oven, so paying £50-£60 to get every last bit of it cleaned to like new is better than paying for a new oven I think.
    i did have a look at that after reading an old thread but i cant find any that do my area, thanks
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

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  • Ishtar
    Ishtar Posts: 1,045 Forumite
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    Opened this thread about an hour ago and it pricked my conscience...I cleaned the oven earlier in the week, but didn't do the glass. It was truly manky!

    Anyhow, I used the Kim and Aggie bicarb and washing up liquid idea and it's come up a treat (I also had to use a fair amount of elbow grease :rolleyes:). I even gave it a go on the outside and the oven looks like new (better not look too closely at the inside though!)

    Think I might try the same trick on the insides of the oven as the cleaner I used took the surface grease off, but left quite a bit behind.

    I soaked the racks in a biological washing powder solution for the best part of a day and they are also looking good. Not perfect but a lot better than before!

    Cheers
    D.
  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
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    OH MY GOD!!!

    i really dread to think what must be in that oven pride stuff.:eek: :eek: :eek:

    after less than 4 hours i couldnt resist having a little prod and poke and the welded on 5 year old grime is just sliding off :j :j

    i have just put the racks in the bag and after about 20 minutes they are starting to look silver again ! i cant believe it, i didnt even know for sure they were chrome, they could have been some obscure black metal for all i knew :rotfl: :rotfl:

    havent wiped it off yet, will leave it untill the kids are in bed. i must admit it is looking promising :D
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

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  • angelavdavis
    angelavdavis Posts: 4,714 Forumite
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    newlywed wrote: »
    I do similar but with a paste of bicarb and vinegar. Cuts into the grease on the glass door and works well ;)

    Needs rinsing fairly well due to powder residue from the bicarb, but it's ok :D

    I can second this method for the glass door (they usually unscrew so you can leave them to work to one side while you tackle inside).

    I also use the oven cleaner from lakeland (which sounds similar to Ovenpride). My OH had never really cleaned his oven very well and I tackled it the other week as the kitchen had a horrible smell and I suspected it was being caused by the oven:eek:

    Its called Ovenmate. Not cheap but I haven't used anything else since using it - it restored the blacked shelves back to shiny metal again - I left it to soak in standing on newspaper for half an hour while I tackled the other bits - it was amazing to see it coming off so easily.

    When I finished, my OH reckoned it was cleaner than when he bought the house!
    :D Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!:D
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