How Do You Clean A Self Cleaning Oven By Hand

I was scared of using my self-cleaning oven.

Only I was fifty-fifty more scared of someone seeing the inside of it.

When I created the Kitchen Cleaning Checklist last week, I knew it was time to take the leap and effigy out how to utilize a self-cleaning oven.

It was easy. Not magic, but easy. Outset of all, I would propose that you read over your oven's instruction manual. I had no idea where mine was, and then I didn't. Simply I did call back my ain mother using hers, and then I went for it.

Yes, it's a little scary. Yes, I warned my kids that the oven was cleaning itself and not to get too close.

Basically, it works like this: The oven gets crazy-hot and burns upwards all of the dirtiness. My oven, my female parent's oven, and I would promise ALL ovens . . . require that the oven is locked in order for the cleaning feature to be used. It then stays locked (it won't LET you lot unlock it) until it has cooled down after cleaning. (I learned from you in the comments that I should take removed the racks earlier cleaning!)

That movie above was my oven before I cleaned it.

Totally embarrassing.

After three hours on the clean bike, and nearly 45 minutes of cooling time, it looked like this:

Yeah. Those are ashes.

Hither was the within of the door prior to cleaning:

And after self-cleaning:

Large difference. But non quite done.

Later on it was cooled completely (FINE, after a few days . . . ), I used an egg-turner to motion all the ashes together and and then wiped out the oven.

It didn't take much effort to wipe it out.

And I do believe information technology was worth information technology:

Quite a big departure, don't you think?

The practiced:

Very footling effort is required. I only turned on the clean feature, locked it and 3 hours subsequently it was done.

Oven Cleaner is known for beingness one of the near horrible chemical cleaners out at that place. Using the self-cleaning feature meant I didn't accept to utilize any chemicals.

Although I rarely thought about the state of my oven unless a guest used it . . . I'm amazed at how striking the difference is.

The bad:

That kind of heat is scary. I probably wouldn't want to leave the house while it was going. (And over again, read your education transmission!)

Although there isn't a chemical olfactory property, you lot can definitely smell the burning off of the what-used-to-be-food. Might be hard for someone with animate issues.

How practice you make clean your oven? How frequently?

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Daily in December daily checklist update: It's Tuesday and I was gone ALL twenty-four hours. I didn't experience similar doing Whatever of my checklist this night, but did clean the kitchen, start the dishwasher, swept the kitchen, checked bathrooms for ataxia, airtight the cabinet door and did a mini-pick-up. Mini is in comparison to a 5 minute one, and then not much.

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