Today I’m asking you for ideas.
My oven is 30 years old and everything on it works great except the clock is broken (in my kitchen it’s always 5 o’clock). Because the clock is broken, I cannot use the self-cleaning feature. I’ve read that stuff like Easy Off is not appropriate for use on ovens that have a self-cleaning feature even if that feature is broken, I’m also concerned about the chemicals in Easy Off.
Any ideas how to get my oven clean?
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Make a paste with baking soda and water. Slather it all over your oven. Leave overnight (mist occasionally with water all evening to keep moist). Wipe yuck out in morning (very messy but it works!).
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I sprinkle baking soda on the crud in my oven, pour vinegar on it, and let it bubble for a bit. Then I mop upeverything up with a sponge or cleaning rag (cut up from an old tea towel). I used this in desparation to get some baked on gunk off of my stove when nothing else worked, including lots of elbow grease. Fortunately it was the easiest, cheapest, and most environmentally friendly method I used – it’s a keeper!
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CondoBlues nailed it – vinegar and baking soda is the best (and cheapest) environmentally-friendly way to clean the fridge. As for commercial products, Arm & Hammer has a non-toxic oven cleaner that has worked well for me in the past.
Gasp! After waayyyyy too many oven-cleanings and freezer-defrostings, once self-cleaning technology was invented for those appliances, I vowed I would never, ever do those tasks again.
I’ve never tried the the vinegar-banking soda strategy on an oven (works nicely on the fridge, though). Baking soda works like mild scouring powder, but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to clean a really dirty oven. One strategy that helps to avoid having to use lye (which is what Easy-Off is…ugh!) is to set a small bowl of ammonia in the oven overnight. When you’re ready to spend an hour or so scrubbing, get to work. The fumes from the ammonia will loosen the baked-on crud. This works pretty well if the oven isn’t extremely dirty, though you still have to apply a lot of elbow grease.
Remember, o’course, not to use a scouring powder with chlorine in it (such as Comet) anywhere near ammonia.
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