Cleaning glass on oven door.

[ipanemagirl]

I have streaks of fat on my oven door and can't get it off with anything. Is there anything which works without scratching the glass? Thanks

i use cif fume free oven spray and a brillo pad. works fine.

Thanks.
And that doesn't scratch the glass?

also use a kitchen towel to wipe it when the oven is hot, comes off easily

A non stick scourer and some Jif (Cif? I still call it Jif!)

I just use a normal steel scourer and it's been ok, but a non stick one would be gentler if you're worried about scratches.

Thanks for good advice!

Cillit Bang

I use vinegar on a damp cloth. Gets the fat off in seconds and leaves the glass really shiny. Cheap and non toxic too. TBH I'd be a bit concerned about using toxic chemical stuff where food has to be cooked (Cillit Bang = nuclear waste imo)

You do need to wash it off Brangelina .

Actually, I have one of those ovens that you clean by heating it up really hot and it burns off the residues (and you wipe up the soot afterwards) - much easier and completely avoids any kind of cleaning product.

But Cillit Bang is very very good at getting rid of baked on fat very quickly .

Cillit Bang is very effective, but I'm a bit perplexed about how it dissolves absolutely everything. Smacks of agent orange to me.

Also, if you oven burns off the residues, are you not filling your kitchen with dioxin laden fumes?

You do have to open the window while you do the pyrolyse thing - you can do it while you are out of the house, in fact, so you don't notice the fumes at all. I do love the fact that you don't have to use oven spray and scrub .

I'm quite into ecological cleaning - I import my e-cloths and all my appliances are super-eco rated. But I do also like my home to be very clean - the trade-off between ecological and hygienic is quite a hard one IMO.

Ah, but if I open the window I let the smog in. Not sure what's worse, dioxin fumes or COs 1 and 2 and PM10 over my lovely organic apples.

Yes it is hard to be eco, but I've not actually noticed that much of a drop (if any) in hygiene since I swapped the toxic sprays with my vinegar and bicarb and stuff homemade grime buster. The only difference in many cases seems to be the perfume, but I just add essential oils now. We have kept the odd toxic item, such as toilet cleaner (I've not found any effective home brew options) and the wax for the parquet. And DP's moth killer spray.

Actually (hijack, sorry OP) do you have an effective solution for those darn moths? We've tried everything, including those ultratoxic mothballs DP tried to kill us all with. Nothing's worked (except perhaps for the mothballs, but I was having none of that), the buggers are still here.

My kitchen window opens onto the back courtyard (as do all the bedrooms) which is suprisingly unpolluted... quite unlike the front two rooms, that open onto a motorway with a bus lane/bus stop that generates the most fantasmogorical black soot . I hardly open the front windows - only at night, with the shutters shut, to air those rooms. And I have to have the front shutters cleaned professionally at least twice a year, whereas the back shutters don't need cleaning more than once every two years.

I don't have a moth problem, so no ideas I'm afraid. Isn't there an essential oil that is supposed to work as a moth deterrent? Or some cedar wood balls or something?

Sigh. I had hoped you'd know. The Italians are normally experts in the conservation of their designer clothes and horrible fur coats, but I've tried the local remamdies to no avail. I was hoping there'd be a French solution too that I hadn't tried

Yes, our front shutters are a different colour from our back ones, so I do sympathise. My kitchen is at the front, alas, so I can only open the windows during the day when I'm usually at work (our road gets clogged at rush hour only, thank goodness) or at night, but then you have the taxi drivers shouting at each other in the local dialect so you can''t hear the television.

I've never had moths here in Paris - maybe it's the climate?

Start a thread about moths - someone on MN will be an expert .

no worries, am much impressed by all your oven knowledge and homemade gunk! fabulous!