How to Clean your Stove and Oven
Posted by itsybitsykristy on Sep 28, 2008 · Member since Sep 2008 · 155 posts
Is there a nice Non Chemical way to clean a stove and oven??? Our oven came with the house and the drip pans are black as black. I managed to get some of it off with a Mr Clean Magic Eraser, but it just ended up chewing up the eraser in the end.
Any tips? We're showing our house tomorrow and I want it to be spic and span!
I was going to suggest the magic eraser because I use it for everything...how about use it with a paste of baking soda for a little bit of abrasion??
I was going to suggest the magic eraser because I use it for everything...how about use it with a paste of baking soda for a little bit of abrasion??
That's what I did last time I cleaned my stove. It took a lot of elbow grease. It worked, eventually.
Thanks, I'm going to try that. I was shocked when the eraser didn't work! it's my secret weapon!
Do this in the sink or bathtub.
Sprinkle well with baking soda.
Pour on warmed vinegar. Let it foam, foam, foam and sit until cold.
Scrub with Scotchbrite or similar.
^ that is what I was going to suggest as well. Vinegar and baking soda are a mighty good help in cleaning! For oven walls you can dab a slightly wet sponge to baking soda to get it on the walls, then spray from a spray bottle vinegar on it.
Sweet, I tried a combination of all those things! The vinegar and baking soda did the trick! Wow that's powerful! Used it on our tub and sink too! :) Great Stuff!
Thanks so much, I'm trying to use less chemicals. This really helped!! :-*
i have been struggling with this too...you see, after the fire the family got a brand new shiny stove...and I promptly ruined it by spilling some of Amy's canned soup between the glass panels on the door....we cannot get inside to clean it...i think its dumb that there were vents on top of the door to allow such things to happen, but alas...I would like to know how to correct it...i don't even know if i described my situation correctly....does any one know what I'm asking???
Gah, I totally know what you mean! there's a mess on the inside window of our oven as well! I have no idea how you're supposed to get to that, other than tearing the whole thing apart! lol
This weekend I wanted to limit my baking, so I decided to finally hit the "clean" button on my stove. The stove is over six years old, and no one in my family has touched the button yet. It locks the door and heats up to a million degrees. For three hours, my oven burned all the grease and what-have-you into thin air.
It also burnt the door from white to brown where the heat escapes at the top of it.
My dad was not happy about that.
Maybe I should have tried scrubbing it harder. :-\
I know for a fact that the person who designed our stove/oven combo has never had to use one in their life. So many design features either don't work, do things you don't want (like burning the paint) or are just badly designed. Like the rack on the stove that tilts everything forward unexpectedly so things like pans with hot oil slide off onto the floor due to the stupidly fashionable "S" shaped grid, instead of a sensible one that will actually hold the pan in place over the flame. Which is what you want it for.
I don't think they expect you to use the self-cleaning feature, you're just supposed to throw the stove out after about 5 years and get a new one. Most Spanish people never use their oven anyway. I do. Gaaah.