Ok, so it should be in BAD housekeeping, but I have just made a discovery when cleaning the oven...

[Frontpaw]

There's a little latchy thing that pops the elements down, so that you can clean the roof of the oven properly! I can't believe I just noticed that!

My mother must be spinning...

Is there???? I wonder if I have one on mine.....

I had my head in the oven with a torch, swearing about the fact that you couldn't clean the top of the cooker properly because of the sodding elements (which you can't squirt Mr Muscle oven cleaner onto) and saw a little latch. So I wiggled it (9 years of grease gave way) and the whole element just swung down!

Sorry, you lost me at "clean the roof"

The insidey top bit. What would you call it?

Frontpaw I think Adora just gives the bottom of her oven a quick wipe out and job done i.e. the oven ceiling / roof never gets done.

apologies Adora if I've got the wrong end of the stick and have besmirched your reputation

People clean ovens?

Aparently so. News to me too!

I pay a bloke to do mine so I wouldn't know about latchy things.
[He would though!]

if all else fails, RTFM.

I did. When I first bought it and filed it neatly away.

I'd call it the same Front, just never thought of cleaning it

Fire

Just seen your post. I have a reputation?

This is news to me, is it a good 'un?

Surely it would be the "ceiling" not "roof".

Not bloody cleaning mine like - roof or ceiling. :)

I wonder does my shiny new oven have one?

I'm being really good about cleaning it unlike the old one but the roof confuses me.

maybe it's the soffit.