Oven cleaning?

My oven has always been self cleaning when the wife divorced me I discovered it wasn't
 
My Missus cleaned ours at the weekend using an oven cleaner she bought from Poundland or one of the other similar kind of shops and was raving about how good it was. Cleaned everything with a sparkle so she told me whilst I was doing the ironing. :D
 
Clean? Oven? Just wait, eventuially it will burn off :D
 
Oven Mate from Lakeland.

Paint it on, leave it a while, wipe/wash it off.


Heather
 
I use Oven Pride. You chuck all the shelves in the supplied big zip-lock bag and pour in half the bottle. Spread the rest of the bottle around the inside of the oven and leave overnight. Next morning you rinse off the shelves, wipe out the inside of the oven and everything is like new :D
 
I can understand having to clean ovens, but why do dishwashers need to be cleaned? You can even buy special cleaning products for them. Don't they clean themselves in normal use?

(I have no idea. I neither have or want a dishwasher).


Steve.
 
How grubby are you letting your ovens get????
 
Line oven sides and base with tin foil, then just remove and put new lot down, tell Mrs you have cleaned it, Brownie point central
 
I have a self cleaning oven :thumbs:

I sat up all night once waiting for it to clean itself.
Lazy bloody thing never did, can I get a replacement,
under the trades description act :shrug:
 
I have used a company called Ovenu - brilliant, they clean it for you and it really does look new!
 
Grendel said:
I use Oven Pride. You chuck all the shelves in the supplied big zip-lock bag and pour in half the bottle. Spread the rest of the bottle around the inside of the oven and leave overnight. Next morning you rinse off the shelves, wipe out the inside of the oven and everything is like new :D
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We use olive oil a lot in our cooking, and it seems to leave a caramelised residue on the oven floor, sides and door - would the Oven Pride work on that?
The door is easy, because you just take it off, but I am guessing that if you used Oven Pride, then the door would have to be closed because of the fumes?
I have tried all kinds - Astonish, Mr Muscle, and one which I have forgotten the name of (I have to wear my paint spraying cartridge mask when I use it:eek:), but none get rid of the caramelised oil.
 
A friend of mine who works as a cleaner doing check-outs on rental flats puts most of the bits in a dishwasher - they come out amazingly clean as a first step, then oven pride is the chemical of choice for him - seems to work perfectly too !
The door needs to be taken apart, but it all seems like a lot less effort than expected.
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Oven Mate from Lakeland.

Paint it on, leave it a while, wipe/wash it off.


Heather
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andy700 said:
We use olive oil a lot in our cooking, and it seems to leave a caramelised residue on the oven floor, sides and door - would the Oven Pride work on that?
The door is easy, because you just take it off, but I am guessing that if you used Oven Pride, then the door would have to be closed because of the fumes?
I have tried all kinds - Astonish, Mr Muscle, and one which I have forgotten the name of (I have to wear my paint spraying cartridge mask when I use it:eek:), but none get rid of the caramelised oil.
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Try this one,as someone who cleans lots of peoples cookers, it is the only one I will use. Not too bad fumes either.I have one woman who does a roast at least once a week without covering it and has her cooker done once a year and Oven Mate gets it all off! (I charge her double though!)


Heather
 
andy700 said:
We use olive oil a lot in our cooking, and it seems to leave a caramelised residue on the oven floor, sides and door - would the Oven Pride work on that?
The door is easy, because you just take it off, but I am guessing that if you used Oven Pride, then the door would have to be closed because of the fumes?
I have tried all kinds - Astonish, Mr Muscle, and one which I have forgotten the name of (I have to wear my paint spraying cartridge mask when I use it:eek:), but none get rid of the caramelised oil.
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There's absolutely no fumes from Oven Pride. It's one of the things I like about it. That said, I always leave it to soak over night with the oven door closed. I know what you mean by the burned residue on the over floor. If it's a particularly thick layer you may need two treatments but ordinarily one soaking does the job.
 
Yeah just pay someone. they're always on the daily deal sites for £20 or there abouts. I got better things to do than wasting 2 hours scrubbing a oven, like wasting 2 hours yapping on here!

I'm in rented property at the moment but when i buy a house I'm investing in a self cleaning oven.
 
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for the shelves and any other cooker bits and bobs a bottle of cheap Ammonia from boots and a black bin bag throw said bits and bobs into the bag poor in fluid about a 1/3rd of a bottle and leave over night. for the inside of the oven i fill a oven dish with water and cook it for a while the steam helps to loosen the dirt then it is elbow grease. many army cookers have been marched out this way and i have never been billed ..
 
Never clean mine. I use baking trays to catch any drips. It is a cheap and nasty cooker so I want any excuse to replace it!

One trick which works for microwaves is to heat a bowl of water with vinegar in. The steam softens the crud so you can remove it more easily. Worth trying with the oven and an oven proof dish.
 
We were in need of another slot in double oven a while back. I went to see one that was advertised local on the bay. Expecting the pictures to have been tarted up, I could not believe for an oven that was about 6yr old it was in showroom condition. The lady had always had any parts replaced that needed doing, but she said that every time she finished doing a roast at the weekend, she would as suggested on here, put a large tray of water in there and wack up the temp for around 20 minutes or so.
 
Our oven has a self cleaning programme, but it's not that great. Cotswold Oven Cleaners on the other hand are completely fab :-)
 
cambsno said:
I have used a company called Ovenu - brilliant, they clean it for you and it really does look new!
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We used this company too - was very impressed as our oven was a mess. I seem to remember the jollop they used was some citrusy thing that was safe enough to eat*. But it still managed to get rid of all the burnt carbon deposits and they did the extractor too.

*having looked again at their website I can't see mention of their cleaning product so to be on the safe side I wouldn't recommend eating it if they come to clean your oven!
 
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Grendel said:
I use Oven Pride. You chuck all the shelves in the supplied big zip-lock bag and pour in half the bottle. Spread the rest of the bottle around the inside of the oven and leave overnight. Next morning you rinse off the shelves, wipe out the inside of the oven and everything is like new :D
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Seconded. When I take the parts out of the bag they look like they have just left the factory and my cooker must be 40 years old.
 
viv1969 said:
How grubby are you letting your ovens get????
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:thumbs: bunch of dirty so and so's :lol:- when I moved into my current gaff the oven was ****ing disgusting - I'm not sure the previous tenant knew what 'cleaning' was.

I paid 80 quid to a specialist service that came and cleaned it with dip tanks of sodium hydroxide , and a high pressure steam cleaner for the bits that don't come off.

since then I just wipe it when its cooled or clean it with soapy water once a week - simples

oh and those saying 'let the wife do it' hang your heads in shame - oven cleaning like toilet unblocking, oil changing, car fixing , vegetable bed digging and other such dirty jobs , is man's work.

back in cave-man days you wouldn't have said , "oh a sabre tooth tiger, let the women deal with it" would you ? :rules:
 
I bought some cleaner from Costco called oven mate made by RDi International

I did leave it on for 3 days as we were away for the weekend but it was fantastic

All the baked on roast beef and chicken that had built up came right off

It really did look as good as new after I'd done it
 
Cheers everyone, particularly Paul and Heather. I had a box of the Oven Pride lurking at the back of the cleaning cupboard, so at 0700 this morning set about cleaning the beast (the oven - not the missus:naughty:).
I do not know why there were three blue gloves in the box, but I followed the instructions and put half the jollop in the bag, and a healthy puddle in the bottom of the oven. I then used a sponge to liberally coat the sides, back and floor of the oven, including the light cover.
I left it until 1400 (three quarters of an hour ago), and then started cleaning, rinsing the bits off.
I have now finished, and the oven looks pretty clean - all the caramelised patches gone, just a few tiny black spots (which the missus noticed:cuckoo:).
All in all, I am very happy and will now use this in future.

Andy.:thumbs:
 
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