cleaning the oven

mungobella

I've used Oven Mate from Lakeland for baked on food. You need to be patient--you usually apply and then wait overnight, and it can take several applications if the situation is really bad. It doesn't have horrible fumes like the aerosol stuff, though, so that's nice. I tried a bunch of stuff before finding this, and it was the only thing that worked.

blissfulbabe

Oven Pride/ Oven Bright are brilliant at cleaning even the dirtiest oven. We used Oven Pride to clean a cooker that hadn't been cleaned for over 2 years and was used by five different people (the joy of students ) and the cooker came up like new, including the racks, with hardly any scrubbing. Just leave it to soak overnight, rinse off in the morning and spend the rest of the day admiring your shiny new oven!

MessyTessie

If you don't like to use harsh chemicals try elbow grease and wire wool, it's worked for me but over time, I've managed to shift over 4 years of grime in about four sessions with some stardrops. It's great being able to see into the oven agan

david39

A similar thread to this a couple of years ago suggested coating the burnt surfaces with neat Stardrops (no water) and leaving for an hour or so.

I've tried this and, although not perfect, it does shift most of the dried/burnt gunge at least to the standard of most other cleaners I've tried - and it's a darned sight cheaper.

Floozie

I had some sugar marinade spill over from a chicken onto my oven floor recently which set rock solid. I wet the spill area, covered it with a layer of bicarbonate of soda then put a wet piece of kitchen roll on top of the bicarb and left it overnight. The following morning the hardened spillage had softened and using a damp cloth I wiped away the spillage, the bicarbonate acts as a gentle abrasive which did not seem to harm the oven floor.

THIRZAH

The stuff from Lakeland is brilliant. It's not cheap but really does work. The smell of spray-on oven cleaners used to make me feel ill but this stuff has no smell.

Pink.

Astonish does it for me every time! That and a wire pot scourer brings the bottom of the oven up like new.

I'll add this to our main cleaning the oven thread later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Hobsons_Choice

If the food is really badly burned and stuck to the bottom of the oven, try one of those window scrapers (for getting paint off windows) from Wilko or somewhere. Works really well scraping off spillages and doesn't harm the oven. Then use Oven Pride or something recommended above.

ellay864

A relative and her partner have both been in hostel accommodation, now have a flat and were donated an oven. It's in perfect working order but god knows when it was last cleaned (if ever!!). The glass on the over door is brown where it should be clear and the bottom is thick with burnt on grease etc.
I have Mr Muscle at home for mine but they finished the bottle and it barely touched it on theirs. Would Oven Pride work on something like that? Can you get that in regular supermarkets? And what's the Lakeland cleaner? I love Lakeland and always happy for an excuse to pop in there, but want to get something that works

imho

I got Oven pride in Tesco,Sainsbury and savers. Been lucky with it in Sainsbury as its always been on offer .
Over pride will clean your friends oven up like new.It comes with a thick plastic bad so you can put the shlves in and leave overnight then wash the gunge off in the morning.