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oven cleaning ..i need help

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melli · 07/12/2004 16:30

we have a new oven. I have only used it once to roast a chicken but the juices splatted everywhere ,onto the actuakl element. so now it smokes when turned on. I am pretty useless with these matters. How can i clean the element without damaging it. Im really looking for a natural -home remedy rather than the oven cleaning products. A freind suggested vinegar. any ideas. help would be much appreciated. need to use this oven again!

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MaryChristmas · 07/12/2004 16:31

have you got one of those steam cleaner jobbies?

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melli · 07/12/2004 16:32

no I havnt .unfortunatly

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GeorginaAdventCalendar · 07/12/2004 17:03

Um... OvenClean Ltd (0800 083 8226) is who I use, but then I'm a slovenly wotsit and like someone else to clean my oven because I HATE the job.

Plus they were ace and my oven looked like NEW (and was in a dreadful state before they arrived)

JoolsTide · 07/12/2004 17:24

My steam cleaner was useless - OvenPride is great - a bit messy but works - Tesco sell it

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 07/12/2004 17:28

Put it on hot until it stops smooking? You have to be careful what cleaners you use on the element as a lot of them are flammable.

JanH · 07/12/2004 17:28

If you can stand the fumes, melli, just turn it up as high as it will go for maybe half an hour - it will burn off the stuff on the element and then it will be ok until the next time. (Maybe go out while it's doing it?)

JanH · 07/12/2004 17:29

snap, ms dragon! Grin

snapdragon in fact, hoho!

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 07/12/2004 17:31

The Sloven's Guide To Oven Cleaning Grin

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 07/12/2004 17:40

Not that you're at all slovenly.

popsycal · 07/12/2004 19:15

I discovered Cookerburra - it ias an oven cleaning company wna dthey made my truely scanky oven look like new....but i am guessing that you wont need to go to these extreme measures.....
Try googling for remedies

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 07/12/2004 19:20

whack it up high and leave it to burn off ...

JanH · 07/12/2004 19:56

The Three Slovens have spoken, melli! Grin

(Sorry, Ms D, had just logged off before!)

SenoraPostrophe · 07/12/2004 20:02

ROFL Janh - I saw your name on a thread about oven cleaning and wondered if you'd come over all shake'n'vac (as in the advert).

V pleased to see you haven't.

Melli if you still care for advice, I too would just leave it on until it stops smoking. If I was having a really good day, I might give it a quick wipe with a dishwater-soaked cloth, but would use none of the hard stuff. You have christened your oven now.

peskykids · 07/12/2004 20:03

Melli - is it a fan oven? I splashed out on a super dooper pyrolytic fan oven from Smeg when I had my kitchen done and it's RUBBISH!! It constantly smokes. It runs a self clean programme ie gets to meltingly hot temp and turns everything into dust requiring the slightest of wipeouts which is great, but that process (I reckon) made the round element also turn into dust. DOH!

And even from when it's spotless, one roast chicken (cooked without fat even) and then it's smoke-a-rama. I'm glad I invested in a high powere extractor - gawd knows what it would do to flat...

And my Smeg dishwasher lasted less than 3 years, and my lovely looking smeg space age 'piano' hob never lights properly...

Phew - glad I got that off my chest I've been waiting for three years for an even feintly appropriate forumto air it!!! Grin

RonnieTinselBaby · 07/12/2004 22:42

Oh dear, I wont say I have siemens oven which has self clean, it temp goes up to 500c and burn everything to ash, then you just wipe away the ash.

BTW we only have it as DH works for Siemens and got HUGE discount.

The problem is it doesnt have just a normal oven setting, it has 10 different setting for dif things arrgghhhhhh

beansontoast · 07/12/2004 23:14

umm...for future ease of oven cleaning,my top tip would be to make a solution of bicarbonate of soda and water ...thinnish paste and then smear it all over the inside of your oven with a cloth.it dries to form a harmless protective film which then washes off really easily when you needd to clean chicken splats off again!
i really cant believe that im giving oven cleaning advice.

janeyjinglebops · 07/12/2004 23:18

cleaning ovens? what is that then?

Fran1 · 08/12/2004 00:00

My new spangly oven does just the same. I just keep on cooking in it, one day it smokes, the next it doesn't and so on. Just keep a window open!

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