Oven Cleaning Tricks You’ll Wish You’d Known Sooner
Is your oven disgusting? Or how about just a little dirty? Mine is definitely a little the worse for wear after a busy winter baking season, a potato incident I don't like to talk about (yes, I poked holes in it first, thank you very much), and, okay, fine, a little bit of neglect. The last time I tried to peer through my murky oven glass to see something inside while it was baking, I cringed, and resolved to get to it with the appliance cleaning in the kitchen.But, while I am frequently lazy, I'm no dummy. Rather than drive myself up the wall trying to scrub the oven, the first place I hit was Hometalk, to see how other people are handling their DIY cleaning and organizing in the kitchen. I've learned through experience that these people know how to get things done, and they'll do it better, faster, and way more efficiently than I will.Let's take a walk through the pages of Hometalk and see how the pros here do it when it comes to scrubbing out the oven, shall we?Oven DoorsEven when you're done scrubbing down the outside so it sparkles, sometimes it's still all murky and gross. What gives? Well, my friends, that double-paned glass admits steam and smoke, and over time, particulates build up. Mom4Real has a tutorial on cleaning oven glass by taking the doors apart, but that looks way too much like work for me. Anna M's tip is more my speed. She cleans between her oven doors with the use of a coathanger and a handy wipe. It does the trick in a fraction of the time, and with way less elbow grease, which means I'll be encouraged to do it more often, i.e., before a huge buildup occurs again.
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