To have never, ever, ever..

[AnyoneforTurps]

..cleaned my oven. I recently confessed this to a friend who is hardly a domestic goddess herself and she nearly fell off her chair. But the oven doesn't look that dirty and any germs must be killed off by the heat, so why bother?

NB I do keep the oven door clean & shiny to lull visitors into a false sense of bio-security .

Nor me, it's nearly 8 years old!!

I rarely cook a roast dinner (which I think is one of the worst things for mucky ovens) and I have a thing to catch any drips on the bottom which I clean regularly.

I must get one of those companies in to clean it sometime soon!

Yup, I only bother with the door too

£80 to clean an oven!!

My oven only cost about £70, 4 years ago.

There's no way I'm throwing more money at it.

Another one who pays someone else to clean it - £50 is sooo worth it. I clean the doors sometimes or alternatively just drape a couple of tea towels over the door handles to cover them up .

Ha ha it's not just me! I got the oven cleaning people in 5 years ago and thought they would have some fandangled chemicals or cleaning methods, but instead a massive muscley man turned up and just scrubbed it to death while I watched! Brilliant!

Urgh...gross to never clean it ever.

I never clean mine. We have just put our house on the market and my mum insisted on coming up and cleaning our oven in case viewers noticed how minging it was . I am 50 It is actually lovely to have it sparking clean so will make an effort to keep it so (pot noodle anyone?)

Man comes. Carpets and oven chimney once a year.

Mine self cleans. It's wonderful. I'm left with a little bit of grey ash to wipe out. It does make the kitchen too hot to stay in while it's cleaning, though.

Am now rather concerned by ThePinkOcelot's* post and hope I don't have the same oven!

I attempted to steam clean our oven with the fancy fucking useless attachment things.

Years of healthy pizza dinners were blasted into beyond and my face. I received a charcoal facial whilst completing my task

Have not attempted it again since. It's DHs turn next.

Ewww the smell...how do the uncleaned ovens not smell? I cannot stand the smell after about 6 months of use if not deep cleaned, it makes me want to retch.

I rarely cook a roast dinner, once every 2 months and always in a covered meat tin. It's the roast potatoes I find make a mess of the oven?

I haven't done mine since December, am adding it to the list now so it might get done before June . I paid for oven cleaning in 2012 when littlest DD was a really young baby as I didn't want the chemicals floating around, but I did it myself last time and I think I did a better job then oven man he didn't clean the fan, lazy bastard.

the only things we cook in our oven are:

pizza
jacket potatoes
veggie sausages
pies/tarts
cakes

that's really about it. Apart from pizzas occasionally dripping (and we do try to remember to stick a baking tray on the bottom shelf), there's nothing there to make the oven dirty or smell.

I hate oven cleaning so we have a pyrolitic one. It get to inferno temps which turns everything to ash and then you just wipe out with a damp cloth.

I would never have an oven that wasn't pyrolitic unless I couldn't afford to buy one.