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MMEC123

Mon, May 29 2006, 12:15 pm

I just don't understand. How is it that the oven cleaners are so dangerous that you can't even touch them, yet no matter how much I scrub, my oven still smells like it, and then I'm supposed to cook food in there?? What should I do?

southernbubby

Mon, May 29 2006, 1:20 pm

Have you ever tried vinegar and baking soda? Lysol kitchen spray gets a lot of grease off and so does orange/citrus strength cleaners. The orange/citrus type is also caustic to skin but not as fumey.

TzenaRena

Mon, May 29 2006, 4:11 pm

I heard some people put ammonia in a dish overnight on the oven floor, and then the grease just wipes off. (ammonia is pretty toxic too though, I think. also has fumes?)

chen ↓

Tue, May 30 2006, 7:16 am

SaraYehudis wrote:

I heard some people put ammonia in a dish overnight on the oven floor, and then the grease just wipes off. (ammonia is pretty toxic too though, I think. also has fumes?)

ammonia is corrosive but not as corrosive as lye. you do want to avoid inhaling ammonia vapors, so put on an exhaust fan and plug up openings to the oven as much as possible before using. ammonia will not get rid of really bad baked-on deposits--only the lye cleaners will do that.

Mommy3.5

Tue, May 30 2006, 10:36 am

self clean?!?! People actually buy stoves without it now?

↑ chen ↓

Tue, May 30 2006, 11:27 am

Mommy3.5 wrote:

self clean?!?! People actually buy stoves without it now?

not everyone buys their stove--many people rent apts. and the appliances come with it. or their kitchen does not satisfy the requirements for a self-clean, in terms of building materials and clearances. friends of ours set their apt on fire using a self-clean oven b/c there was not enough clearance around the stove.

granolamom

Tue, May 30 2006, 11:32 am

I clean my oven with baking soda.It works well and this way my 2 yo can 'help'. only downside is it has to be rinsed well and that gets messy, so cleaning the oven always includes washing the floor afterwards.

MommyLuv ↓

Wed, Oct 18 2006, 4:17 pm

[quote="granolamom"]I clean my oven with baking soda.It works well and this way my 2 yo can 'help'. only downside is it has to be rinsed well and that gets messy, so cleaning the oven always includes washing the floor afterwards.[/quote

I was just about to post about this...

does baking soda work for really baked-on grease? my oven is a disaster and dont want to use oven cleaner..my DD had a coughing fit from being ten feet away from the open oven after I started spraying some and I got kinda scared.

how much baking soda do you have to use?
what kind of sponge/scrubbing thing works best?

↑ chen

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 5:46 am

baking soda or ammonia or the orangey natural grease-solvent cleaners all work for spilled and condensed grease, which is fine if you clean your oven every time you use it. None will remove truly baked-on black residue, such as sugary fruit-pie filling that spilled and turned into a porcelain-like building material. For that only lye, or steel wool or a razor blade and plenty of energy and patience will do. This latter is not recommended b/c blades or steel wool will scratch the oven and make it even more prone to catching and holding crudaceous material.

↑ MommyLuv

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 6:10 am

thanks chen....I ended up scraping most of the gook off with a knife...woops embarrassed

yoyosma

Fri, Dec 29 2006, 10:11 am

Lately I have been having major spills (I dont know how they are happening! I am not spilling anything!!!) in my oven and I have been cleaning it often. Easy-Off really scares me but its the only thing that seems to work.
Does anyone have a really tried and true remedy that will get off caked goo that spills onto the bottom?
I tried Fantastik, Ajax, never tried Baking Soda, does it really work?

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