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Need Help with Oven Cleaning ASAP!!
My oven is a disaster. There is sooooo much black food crusted to the bottom of it I dont even know where to begin. I tried to use the self cleaning button a while back and I had some sort of allergic action to it and my eyes would not stop watering. So any help on what to do to get it clean I would totally appreciate! IT SMOKES EVERYTIME I USE IT and it isnt even a year old!
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Re: Need Help with Oven Cleaning ASAP!!
Chemical version:
Easy Off Fume Free Max. I have it... it doesn't smell at all. Follow the directions on the can and repeat until the oven is clean. Make sure you wash the inside of the oven down with water or water+vinegar before you use the oven again. Regular Easy Off would work, but since you said you had an allergic reaction from just using the self-clean feature, you'll want something without fumes.
Non-chemical version:
Make a paste out of baking soda and vinegar and scrub until the cows come home. Repeat until the oven is clean.
Future advice:
You might want to cover your bottom oven rack in foil so any spills are caught by the foil (then just replace the foil when it gets gross) instead of the bottom of the oven. No offense but a wrecked oven in less than a year means someone in your house has sloppy cooking skills. You can buy an extra oven rack to keep in the very bottom position if you routinely use both oven racks to cook.
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I have cheap cookie sheets for this purpose. I've been known to set my pan on the cookie sheet so that any spills go on the cookie sheet rather than the bottom of my oven. My parents have had the same oven for more than 20 years. Appliances are expensive, you definitely want to take care of them.
Hi, I'm new to this board and have lurked a bit, but I've had this happen to me as well, actually the whole apartment floor was smoky and the alarms were going off!
I used something similar to the pp's suggestion of vinegar solution and scrubbed with steel wool. It takes some patience and muscles, but gets the job done!
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I have used the Easy-Off and it worked very well! I try to wipe up any mess right after they happen so I don't have burning food the next time I use the oven!
I would use a plastic scraper (like one for dishes) and scrape off anything you can and then attempt to clean it either with easy off, baking soda or self cleaning. Make sure the oven cleaner you pick is safe for self cleaning ovens.
A self cleaning oven isn't doing anything magical, it's just burning it all off at once. Open the windows and turn on the fan when you start it to help control the smell.
The easiest way to clean the oven is to clean up spills while they are still warm.
This might be too late but my oven has a self clean setting, pretty much it bakes for four hours on various temperatures to make everything on the inside turn to ash. I only do that when food gets under the heavy duty foil I have lining the bottom of the oven.
The first poster had some very good advice for how to scrub it clean. Good luck! Definitely get it taken care of, dirty ovens can be fire hazards.