Ovens. Catalytic vs pyrolytic cleaning.

[ScreamingBeans]

Fight!

Which is better?

Catalytic sounds like it's actually easier in that it only takes half an hour while pyrolitic sounds more effective in that it burns the bejaysus out of everything, but it takes hours, so might be a bit of a PITA. I wouldn't want to leave my oven on overnight tbh, as fire risk is always something I'd take seriously (I don't leave my tumble drier on if I go out either).

Has anyone experienced both and what would you say is better?

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Ooh I'm interested in that too. I may get a new oven at some point, and would like to know what's best.

Pyrolytic 100% if you want the absolute minimal cleaning effort.
So long as it's installed properly It's really safe, as long as you have a smoke alarm in the house I'd happily have it run overnight.

Life is too short for oven cleaning.
HTH?

Pyrolitic is great, but overall quality of the oven surfaces is important. Pyrolysis will work a lot better in an oven with high quality enamel (not sure if this is the correct technical term) than on a bog standard surface, as confirmed by the technician when I mentioned that the new oven’s pyrolysis programme was much better than the one in my old oven, he said the difference was the enamel.

Pyrolitic every day of the week! Brings everything up fantastically clean and having had both would definately recommend pyrolitic.

Pyrolytic for sure.
I found catalytic never did the job properly.

What about the shelves and shelf racks with pyrolitic? ado you still have to scrub at them?

And the glass door?

Pyrolytic every time. But remember that it won't do the racks, you have to take out all the chromeware and trays. But that responds fairly well to soaking in water with a dishwasher tab for a few hours. And it doesn't do the glass doors very well.

Pyrolytic… I have a neff self clean and I leave the racks in even though it says not to They are fine, and clean.

It stinks though especially if it hasn’t been done for a while so for that reason I would not leave it on at night.

Oh well that's pretty conclusive.

Pyrolytic it is.

Yeah i leave the racks in too. My manual says they may discolour if you leave them in…who cares?!

@ItsJustTheOneSwanActually exactly!

The door doesn’t get too bad on mine but the cleaning will loosen a lot of it, but the pink stuff gets anything else off.

Pyrolytic every time. While you do have to take the shelves out, as long as you clean reasonably regularly they just need a quick wipe with stainless steel wool. No idea if they've improved but our old catalytic one it was only the sides that had the catalytic surface, you had to scrub the base of the oven the old fashioned way - and for me it's always the base that gets dirtiest and is the most trouble to clean!