5 Ways to Clean Your Oven

Posted on 17/01/2024

Easy Ways to Clean Your Oven

An oven is one of the most used kitchen appliances. With regular use, it's no surprise that once in a while, your oven needs some serious and thorough deep cleaning. Cleaning your oven is not only necessary for eliminating the mess but also for maintaining it in good condition for a longer period. Also, you should bear in mind that having an overly-charred oven poses a safety hazard, since racks full of grease debris may catch fire easily.

In this article you can find some of the effective methods that any homeowner can use to deep clean their oven.


1) Self-Cleaning Method

The built-in self-cleaning method is probably the easiest and most effective oven cleaning technique you can employ. Most of the modern ovens have a built-in self-cleaning setting that you might not have tested.

What the self-cleaning setting does is to trigger a heating cycle that raises the internal temperatures of your oven up to 500 degrees Celsius, from two to six hours. The elevated temperatures cause all the debris in the oven to burn to ash. When the temperature drops, you can simply wipe the ash with a wet paper towel.

There's no other simple way to deep clean your oven other than the built-in self-cleaning.

However, this cleaning technique is accompanied by some demerits too; the high temperatures can result in roughening the racks texture and make them lose their lustre. Also, with time, the high temperatures can burn out fuses and electrical elements of your oven.


2) Bathtub Method

Your oven racks are the grimiest parts since they are in contact with most food substances. Therefore, for a sparkling look and a deep clean, you need to let them soak before putting in a little scrubbing action. The best spot for cleaning the grimy oven racks is your bathtub.

You need to fill your tub with hot water such that the racks are fully submerged, then add a liquid or granular dishwashing soap and let the racks soak up. Once the dirt in the rack loosens up, you can then scrub them using a dryer sheet, and viola - you get clean, shiny and great-smelling racks.

When placing the racks in the bathtub, ensure you lay them on an old towel to avoid getting your bathtub scratched.


3) Keep it Natural

At times, the answer to our home cleaning solutions lies within our home. Yes, some of your commonly used kitchen ingredients and spices are an effective cleaning solution. Using lemon juice, for example, not only kills most of the bacteria but also helps in removing grime from your oven.

On the other hand, a water-ammonia solution is effective for cleaning your oven. In fact, most of the commercial cleaners have ammonia as their key ingredient.


4) Use Commercial Cleaners

Your typical commercial oven cleaner is indeed effective in cleaning your oven, but only when used correctly. A point that you should keep in mind is the fact that the cleaners contain harmful chemicals, which pose safety and health hazards, and it's, therefore, crucial that you wear the right gear when using commercial cleaners.


5) Hire Cleaning Services

Do you find the above procedures tiring and time-consuming? Also, do find some of the techniques likely to expose you some health and safety hazards but still want a deep cleaning for your oven?

If so you can contact a domestic cleaning company to do it for you. Unlike the above methods, hiring a cleaning company to do your oven cleaning is fast, effective and convenient.