Catalytic liners or Pyrolytic

Purple_kitten

I'm just about to get a new kitchen installed, having put it off for many years in trepadation of the amount of work involved.

I am getting a built in oven, and have narrowed it down to one, but it comes with 2 cleaning choices, one is the Pyrolytic self cleaning, which I have read both good and bad on. The other has Catalytic liners. Does anyone reccomend one above the other?

ka7e

I think catalytic liners operate at much lower temps than pyrolytic, so they kick in when the oven is reasonably hot -such as when you cook a roast dinner or cook oven chips. The pyrolytic programme is usually a designated one where the oven is made very hot for a length of time. I had a catalytic liner for many years and never noticed it..so it must have worked well!

ToeDipper

Love our pyrolytic oven - 4 years old and the insides are like new with minimal effort from me! I still take before and after photos because it's still amazing to me that it manages as it does. Shame it doesn't work on the glass door too.

MarcTJTD

Catalytic liners are the cheaper option; they cover "certain parts" of the oven and when you run the cleaning program (takes about 30 minutes) it loosens any greasy residue on the liners and makes it easier to clean. Important to note is that this will only apply to the areas that the liners cover (some manufacturers only have catalytic sides) and the other areas will still require normal cleaning. They also lose effectiveness if you typically only cook under 200 degrees, and you do occasionally have to remove the liners entirely to clean them.

Pyrolytic ovens have a setting that you run once a month or so, it takes around 90 minutes, locks the door and heats up the inside of the oven to 400+ degrees, turning any food residue to ash that you can just wipe out with a tissue once the cleaning cycle is complete.

As a lazy chef who hates cleaning ovens, I'd pick Pyrolytic every time just for the ease of it.

beaker141

I'd go Pyrolytic every time now - this is my oven, neglegted for a while and then the cleaning program run.

Before


After

carly

Pyrolytic everytime, you will be disappointed by anything else. Only pyrolytic gives a 100% thorough clean

carly

ToeDipper wrote: »

Love our pyrolytic oven - 4 years old and the insides are like new with minimal effort from me! I still take before and after photos because it's still amazing to me that it manages as it does. Shame it doesn't work on the glass door too.

Thats a real shame, mine ( Siemens) cleans the glass door too.
sadly it doesn't do the shelves which have to be removed before cleaning

Kiran

carly wrote: »

Thats a real shame, mine ( Siemens) cleans the glass door too.
sadly it doesn't do the shelves which have to be removed before cleaning

Back in the day when I was a student and we needed to clean our student flat kitchen (I had some right herberts for housemates) I took the shelves down to the local garage and used their pressure washer. They came up absolutely spotless!