What is your oven cleaning routine?

[Minieggbrownies]

I'm trying to keep my oven cleaner. It used to be a once a year job with loads of oven pride.

I'm m trying to do it every 8 weeks now as doing TOMM, it still takes forever and without oven pride it isn't properly clean.

I know ideally it should be wiped after each use, but I find that once I've cooked a roast, the door is splattered and won't come off without scrubbing. I'm just not prepared to scrub the oven every single week.

I already use oven liners and gave self cleaning sides. Is there any other way to make it a bit easier?

I do try to wipe down in between but honestly it’s not my strong point. It lets down the rest of my house which is fairly spick and span.

I pay a company to come and do mine. The first time I used them, they used before and after pictures of my oven on their advertising billboards locally. Embarrassing 🙈 😂

Oven cleaner comes out once a year 😁

Mine never gets in that much of a mess tbh. The door never gets splattered when I cook a roast as I've always used roasting bags- no mess.

Twice a year I pay a company to clean it.

Brillo pads,makes light work of it.

For the glass I use pink stuff a few times a year

Pay the nice man £40 (he uses vinegar etc so no chemical smells) and drink tea while he does it

Thank you very much to the posters who gave me an idea of the cost.
I got the feeling they'd want to come round to assess the oven, then give me a price, and I'm terrible at turning people down.
It sounds very tempting...

My routine is:

1. Observe the state of the oven.
2. Think 'hmmm, really must get that cleaned.....soon. Yes, definitely quite soon'.
3. Watch some telly.

You're meant to clean them?

My oven cleaning routine. DH does it with ‘powerful men-only chemicals’ (Oven magic or some such) that I don’t worry my pretty little head about, a couple of times a year.
Or he did until I bought an air-fryer and now almost never use said oven. Think it won’t need another clean for several years, apart from occasionally dusting the cob-webs off and drying it’s tears of loneliness…

Do you do your roasts in a bag? Might reduce that mess at least. I can sympathise though, I recently got my oven almost good as new and was horrified with what came off the glass when I wiped it a few weeks later!

I just find a wipe round with very hot soapy water after every use whilst it's still warm stops any build up. Also use the silicone liners.

Oven cleaning is the one job I absolutely detest, and I won’t do it for ANY of my clients (pyrolytic ovens excepted)!

I get my own double oven professionally cleaned once a year, approx £70.

Cheap oven tray goes in the bottom with a liner in it (much easier to contain spills).

Racks and side supports go in the dishwasher on the hottest setting two or three times a year.

Astonish Oven and Cookware Cleaner is good for the glass doors. But if really mucky/burned on, I swipe over a light coating of Oven Pride (or something gel based). Leave drop down doors open (so glass practically horizontal and no chance of gel getting where it shouldn’t). Leave on overnight/all day, wipes away easily with very little residue.

I get a bloke to clean it every six months outside of that I wipe any obvious spills but largely ignore it. I'm never cleaning an oven again, takes ages and is never as good a job when finished as the oven man does.

I turn the dial and walk away. I love my pyrolytic oven!

Once a year I call the oven cleaning company.

This!

Clean it between Christmas and New Year as that's the only time it's used really. Ninja rest of the year.

I'm with you! (Though I do clean the interior glass first so that nothing gets baked on as the temperature hits 400!)

Stick racks in the dishwasher. Then use a Brillo pad to get any residue off. Pink stuff will clean off the glass.

I do this roughly every six months. I also put foil on the tray which is part of my oven so I can just replace the foil without having to clean anything.

My what????

Mine is pyrolytic but I find it doesn’t clean it that well and you still have to clean the shelves and glass etc.

My what, sorry? 😂

It gets cleaned when we move house. By someone else, who I pay. We're veggie so it's not really dirty?