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Post by Script on May 28, 2008 14:21:40 GMT -5
Dear friends: for the first time in my life, I have a self-cleaning oven. My previous gas stoves had what was called 'continuous clean'.
During the fateful FundRaising brunch, the cheese-mushroom strata spilled over badly. I could not really clean it up at the time. When I went to use the oven again the next week, it was hideously smoky and smelly. Which set off the fire alarm.
So DH & I decided to use the self-clean feature on the oven. WHAT A DISASTER! yes, it got the oven clean. It took 4.5 hours. We could not get the smoke detector to stop beeping, even with all windows & doors open. DH finally disconnected the alarm (we reconnected it eventually).
NOW....something else has spilled in the oven. I cleaned it with an SOS pad. I wouldn't use the self-cleaning feature unless my life depended on it. The Smoke! The Smell! The NOISE! It truly made me ill.
My mom said that she thought there were oven cleaning products which can be used in a gas self-cleaning oven. Does anyone know about these things?
Also: is there any way to clean the oven racks? other than scrubbing for an hour with SOS pads and destroying my hands, even with rubber gloves.
By the way, it is the law here to have smoke detectors, and I do not want to compromise my insurance. BUT....I hate these gadgets with the heat of a thousand suns (to quote dear Illuminata). Every time I sautee anything like mushrooms, it goes off. EVEN WITH ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS OPEN. It scares me half to death each time.
thanks in advance.
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Post by angelinahedgehog on May 28, 2008 14:33:15 GMT -5
Easy-off oven cleaner. I liked the stuff that they had a million years ago, which came in a jar and had a brush that you used to paint it on. Nowadays, all that seems to be available is aerosols. They have one that is "fume free", and it works pretty well, although it needs to sit overnight. Hmm... They have one for glass cooktops. If you have just a mildly dirty oven, that might suit. And it's a spray pump. I would avoid using SOS pads on the oven. The self-cleaning ovens I've seen have had shiny interiors, and SOS pads will be more likely to scratch them, which will make them harder to clean. A plastic putty knife might help remove the stuck on stuff with less risk of damage to the surface. For the oven racks, I recall my mother putting them into the bathtub and soaking them in water with ammonia added.
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Post by Script on May 28, 2008 15:19:16 GMT -5
Thank you AH: I told Momsie (my mom) that you would know. I am sure I can buy these products here.
I went to the web site and learned a LOT. Evidently I could use the fume-free item on the racks; also the glass stove top on my enamel top.
ONWARDS! towards sanity?!@!?#?!?
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Post by suchamess on May 28, 2008 16:34:23 GMT -5
I just cleaned my oven a few weeks back. Best advice for keeping the smoke at bay is to vacuum out anything you can in the bottom of the oven. For the racks, I ran a hot tub full of OxyClean. It brought everything right off with very minimal scrubbing.
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Post by Fivecat on May 28, 2008 19:02:40 GMT -5
agree with ah. easy off oven cleaning and do NOT use those sos pads on it anymore. she's right, it will scratch it and make it that much harder to clean in the future. Don't fret over having already done it, cause i know you script, ! just don't do it any more you can use the easy off on the racks, too. Something i've always done with my ovens is to lay a sheet of aluminum foil in the bottom under the heating element to serve as a drop cloth. usually when anything spills over, it hits the foil and i can just take it out, trash it, and replace it with a new piece. But that's on an electric stove. i don't know about gas. i guess you could on a gas over, just don't cover where the holes are. another thing i've been known to do is when i put a casserole or some such thing in there, i put it on like a cookie sheet first. That also will catch all the run over and a cookie sheet is alot easier to clean than a whole oven. Fivecat
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