Oven cleaning

[cjsmith]

Never truly had to do this before. May I say for the record that it is a major pain in the patootie?

1. Attempt self clean cycle. Minimal to no effect.
2. Repeat attempt (in the hopes that "minimal" was progress). No effect at all.
3. Buy oven cleaner and apply according to instructions. Gunk in oven is loosened but now the entire oven is gray-white and I can't get that off no matter how much rinsing and scrubbing I do.

At this point I would be happy to have the oven back in the state it was in before I started. Why do I try, people? Somebody, somewhere, tell me the answer to this fundamental question?

So now I'm doing something that I know is a not so good idea, but I'm out of options:

4. Repeat self clean cycle. Maybe it will burn some of this stuff off. (From the fumes, I can tell it's doing SOMETHING.)

Wish me luck.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Regular maintenance will prevent it getting so dirty that it gets to that point for you (and is a lot easier/less time consuming to tackle). I've never run into an oven that's too dirty to clean (though I've run into a few that are impossible to return to a like-new, spotless state only because I don't know what people put in their ovens but yeah man, sometimes it isn't food!), and boy howdy, lemme tell you: I've seen some unbelievably bad ovens, as in, "Let me try to reconstruct this oven from what my memory of what ovens might look like, clean" - so lack of care is *not* an oven-killer, so to speak, but can take a few hours spread out over several days to get through (between letting the spray sit, scrubbing, letting it sit and scrubbing again) so patience is probably one's greatest friend there.

[cjsmith]

Hahaha I didn't mention HOW it got dirty. This wasn't exactly a long-standing thing. (The oven is two years old and my attempts to learn to cook are a lot more recent than that.) But a pie got poured into it... in retrospect, it's funny... :)

[marahmarie]

Yeah, it happens (and can happen quickly!) so don't feel too bad...

[cjsmith]

It sure did happen fast! Oh well!