Cleaning Your Oven - An Experiment and a Lesson Learned
by
DeeDee
4 Hours
Easy
My oven was really dirty and I wanted to clean it. Naturally I went to Pinterest to find a recipe using household items because I don't like the harsh fumes of the store bought cleaners. I found several ideas that were basically the same. I thought I'd give it a whirl.
This is the picture of the oven AFTER I cleaned and scrubbed and waited 3 more hours. More on that in a moment.
This is a picture of my nasty dirty oven BEFORE I got to scrubbing and waiting.
Um, eeeew! I use my oven a lot and yes it gets dirty when you use it!
The filth spares no space, its not partial to just one area, its everywhere!
Yuck-oh! This stuff is baked on good. It's going to take some elbow grease to get this awful mess off!
The glass on the door is the reason I decided to clean my oven. So much yuckiness that you cant even see through it to see what's happening inside the oven! Gosh!
Have you had enough of my dirty oven yet? Yeah, me too! Let me tell you about my experiment now.
I used 8 tbsp dawn, 8 tbsp baking soda and 6 tbsp vinegar.
I used my green and yellow scrub sponge and dipped it in the mixture and generously applied to the filth and scrubbed and scrubbed. Wait 20 minutes and according to what I read on Pinterest it should wipe clean, just like that! Um No, no it didn't! I scrubbed more and more and more and more!
What about the dirty oven racks you ask? Well, there is a homemade remedy for that too! Bounce and Dawn or Dawn and Bounce....either combination works...kind of!
Fill your bath tub with HOT water just enough to cover the racks. Add 3/4 cup Dawn while water is filling. Let stand for 8 hours. This did work well to get most of the bits that were stuck on off. Drain the water and use your Bounce sheet to remove any remaining grease. Yes, this worked pretty well, not perfect back to new, but pretty well.
This is the AFTER picture for after I scrubbed and scrubbed! Much better, but NOT clean!
This is how it looked after I used the self cleaning featuring on the oven and waited the 3 hours it took to clean it!
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