Cleaning oven

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Can you tell me how you clean your oven? What do you use and do you have a particular method?

I have just spent three hours doing ours. It was disgusting as I cooked a garlic bread and the butter ran everywhere and re melted and burnt next time I cooked. You can imagine the smell inside our flat last night.

So I set foul today and sprayed it with Mr Muscle stuff and scrubbed with a brillo pad, the type with pink stuff in. But then all the gunk was in the bottom and I could get it all out. So I ended up using a whole kitchen roll.

I need a better way of doing it.

Except paying someone else!

Couldn't get it all out, that was meant to say

Get this from Lakeland. It's great. Paint it on, leave it, wipe it off. No scrubbing.

Last time mine needed doing, my Dad did it, randomly (he and Mum were looking after the DCs - DH and I were at work, and they were at school for the morning, and he was looking for something useful to do) That's definitely a hassle-free way of doing it

Ahem

Don't try my method!

Loads of newspaper on the floor, a good oven cleaner one that you leave for a few hours or overnight, when ready bucket of hot soapy water lots of cloths that you are prepared to throw away and sponge out the gunk.

Keep going if its very dirty it will take some time, refreshing water and newspaper when needed.

Make sure your kitchen window is open and avoid getting cleaner on you

You can buy plastic bags with oven cleaner in which you put the shelves in , think they are quite good

I second Evil's suggestion. MOre than second, I have missionary-like zeal for OvenMate. When we moved into our house, it was clear the oven hadn't been cleaned in years. The oven dish was stuck to the base of the oven. I've never seen anything like it.

That oven mate stuff sorted it all out. Painlessly. I will never use anything else ever again.

I use Oven Mate from Lakeland, which is really good BUT no matter how much I wipe and rinse it out, I get a white flaky residue left on the oven which does not become apparent until I have used the oven a few times. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but I have tried plain kitchen roll, damp kitchen roll, cloths (dry, damp and with washing up liquid) kitchen wipes, and it still happens?? What am I doing or not doing that causes this?

Gosh, Sierra - I have no idea. Did not have that problem at all. I do know that there are a few ovens you shouldn't use ovenmate on, is it possible that's the problem?

Thanks for replies :)

I can't open my windows, they are frozen shut!

I ended up filling up a bucket and just washing it rinsing it over and over.

trolleyrage are you all ok?

I'm never doing it again. Next time i'll buy a new oven

I PAID to have mine cleaned 2 weeks ago for the first time ever ( I have cleaned it before but never paid someone else IYSWIM) The fecker broke this week !! Not worth repairing ! Waiting for new one to be delivered. DH reckons old cooker was traumatised by being cleaned.