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using a self-cleaning oven?
Recently my husband has discovered he likes to roast chickens in my cast iron skillet in the oven. This, naturally, makes a hell of a mess with all the grease splatter all over my oven.
I tried cleaning my oven today after roasting a chicken last night. I sprayed it with Easy Off and let it sit like it said, but it didn't really help very much. There are tons of black spots all over the place still and I can't scrub them off!
We've never used the self-cleaning featuer on our oven before, and I'm nervous about it. Do you think that would help get all the spots off? Make it worse somehow?
Anyone have experience using their self-cleaning ovens and what I can expect? Thanks!
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Re: using a self-cleaning oven?
Planned Executed
You used the low-fume kind labeled for use with self-cleaning ovens, right?
I have used the self-cleaning feature twice on our oven, and once on my mom's. Basically, remove the racks and let it do its thing*. Someone needs to be around to keep an eye on it, and you'll probably want to open windows and possibly turn on some fans because, as PP said, it will smoke.
*You should probably also read your oven's User's Manual and confirm that there are no special instructions.
ETA: You should also wipe it out first to get as much as you can off, which you've probably already accomplished at this point. Less to incinerate and smoke up your kitchen that way.
Yes I used the low-fume Easy Off and it says it's safe for self-cleaning ovens. I wiped all it off with paper towels after scrubbing the hell out of one side of the oven and noticed how much it didn't take off.
I don't have the owner's manual--the people who lived here before us must've chucked it. I tried looking it up online, and the only manual I could find lists the fact that it is a self-cleaning oven and how to start it (pressing the "self-clean" button and then "start"), but nothing else.
Thanks for the tips! I will watch it very closely and have a fire extinguisher ready too. Hopefully it won't come to that!
This, but in our last house.
I did it! And it worked! Boy did it smell up my house, but it was totally worth it. My oven is beautiful now!
Thanks everyone!