Easy ways to clean your oven

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Easy ways to clean your oven

By : John

When was the last time you thought of cleaning your oven? Out of all the kitchen cleaning chores, oven-cleaning is the most time consuming and messy. It takes hours of labour and professional technique to get the perfect shine back.

After months of roasting and baking, an oven tends to get reasonably grimy. Built up grease and charred food accumulates and turns into carbon, with continuous use. This causes a strong burning smell while cooking, thus contaminating your food.

If left unattended for a long time, it can even cause a fire! To be on the safe side, you should clean your oven on a regular basis or get it done from professional company like Bond Cleaning Newcastle.

Here are some tips to help you clean your oven without using much force or chemicals. Method of cleaning depends on the type of oven you have:

Self-cleaning ovens

They come with a feature that allows you to heat the oven to such a high temperature that the build-up grease turns to ashes.

For this, choose an appropriate time when the kitchen is least active.

Keep children and pets away and open the windows, so that your family doesn’t inhale the fumes.

Now, remove the racks and place them in the sink full of warm water with dishwashing liquid, to soak for some time. In the meanwhile turn on the oven’s self-cleaning mode. This would lock the oven and heat it to around 800 to 900 degrees Fahrenheit (427 to 482 degree Celsius).

Make sure the oven door is locked for the safety of your family.

The oven will clean itself for 2 to 6 hours, during which grease and burnt food will turn to ashes. Let the oven cool for another 2 hours. Now, brush out the ashes from the oven with the help of a brush and then wipe it clean with a damp cloth. Replace oven racks.

Drawbacks of this method are:

Excessive heat and smoke can turn on smoke detectors. Can cause health problems to your family members and reduce the life of heating elements of your oven.

Textured ovens.

Textured ovens have a porcelain layer that is designed to burn spilt food away while the oven is in use. But this doesn’t give a 100% result as the burnt food may stick to the oven and become tough to remove.

Regular ovens

These type of ovens have to be cleaned regularly with hands. No matter how much you scrub, the result is not satisfactory.So, go old school and clean your oven with this completely safe and natural way.

You just need a little vinegar, baking soda, a spray bottle and a damp cloth. First of all, remove the racks from the oven and keep them aside for washing. Mix a half cup of baking soda with a little water to make a smooth paste and spread it all over the area inside the oven except the heating element (don’t forget to wear gloves).

Leave it overnight and let the baking soda do its magic. Meanwhile, clean the racks and let them dry.

In the morning, wipe out the oven with a damp cloth. If the stains and grime are tough, you can also use a silicone spatula to scrape the dried baking soda.

Now with a spray bottle, spray vinegar on the baking soda residue. Vinegar reacts with baking soda and forms foam. Wipe this foam with the damp cloth again. Repeat it until you get the desired result. You can always use cleaners available in the market. But these cleaners may contain harmful chemicals which may affect your family health and reduces your ovens lifespan.

So, choose wisely and follow all the instructions given on the pack. The last but not the least way is to get professional help. You can hire experienced and trained professionals to clean your oven.

Just check with them about their cleaning procedure and products they use. A good cleaning agency uses all natural ways to clean your oven, thus ensuring your family’s health and safety. Hope this tips will prove useful to you. Happy cleaning!