Cleaning the oven with baking powder?

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I am inspired and desperate to procrastinate from work by the washing machine threads and want to clean my oven as well. Somewhere I've read you can clean it by painting baking powder or exploding baking powder and then wiping it off? I googled it and all I found were people saying you should spray it on every time you cook but I don't fancy the idea of the crap that's in our oven falling into my food (not worried about baking powder doing so).

I have seen the dishwasher tablet/teatowel trick and will try that with the shelves and the deep tray but can't with the grill element (on the ceiling).

Does anyone know the baking powder thing please? Or is it bicarb? I should say the oven is not ours (rented flat) and is an electric/fan/grill in one in case that makes any difference.

TIA to anyone who can help :)

Baking soda not powder is the best way to do it. I spread lots all around the oven with a damp cloth to make a paste then leave it for an hour before coming back and scrubbing it all out and rinsing off all the baking soda before I cook anything. It's quite time consuming so I only bother every six months or so but it does the job. HTH

baking powder and a little lemon juice mix to paste and rub over.leave for 10mins and rinse

sory,computers on one today-not baking powder,use bicarbonate of soda

what is the effect of doing that? my oven is greasy and seems to be a pain to clean it.

Thanks :)

Emma I understood it got rid of the greasy bits that scrubbing won't and also the caked-on black burnt bits (I have a few vile things stuck to the grill element).