How to clean the oven at home
The oven is simply an indispensable tool for many housewives. It helps to prepare lunches and dinners, make delicious pies and cakes, bake meat and fish, etc. Therefore, at least once a week, but we use our gas or electric ovens, but, unfortunately, it is not always possible to clean the oven immediately after cooking, until the grease and dirt have dried.
After you cook food several times, the accumulated fat on the inner walls of the chamber begins to burn and smoke when heated. Currently, each housewife has her own ways of cleaning such accumulated soot.
Therefore, in this article we will look at how to clean the oven at home, and what types of cleaning products are created from ordinary soda, salt and vinegar.
Household chemicals for cleaning the oven
If you prefer factory cleaner means for the oven, then you should pay attention to such household chemicals as Russian-made Shumanit, German-made Frosh and American-made Amway. According to the reviews of numerous consumers, all these substances do an excellent job of cleaning the oven and even wash old fatty scale.
So, for example, the Amway cleaner is a gel that perfectly softens and then exfoliates caked on fat and food debris inside the oven for 30 minutes. After that, the inner surface can simply be wiped with a napkin and the enamel will sparkle with cleanliness.
When using household chemicals, it must be remembered that any industrial product is a potent chemical compound that can get on the skin of the hands and cause an allergic reaction or simply burn the skin badly.
Everything must be done necessary security measures when using chemicals: wear rubber gloves, open windows, turn on the ventilation system and keep children and animals away from the oven.
A few easy ways to clean your oven without household chemicals
Also, many are interested in how to clean the oven inside without using household chemicals, which sometimes causes allergic reactions in people.
I would like to note that most modern ovens, even cheap ones, have such opportunities for cleaning carbon deposits and accumulations of fat, such as: pyrolytic, catalytic and hydrolytic methods. Therefore, we recommend that you read the instructions before using the manual cleaning method.
Steam oven cleaning
One of the easiest and most effective ways to clean a gas or electric oven is to steam clean. For this you need to take a heat-resistant dish of large diameter, pour ordinary tap water into it, add a little laundry soap or a non-aggressive agent for washing dishes and put the container in the oven.
Then turn on the oven, setting the thermal mode in the range from 120 to 150 ° C, wait until the water in the container boils and leave the oven for 30–40 minutes in this position. In case of heavy contamination, the boiling time can be increased to 1 hour or more. After the oven has cooled down, the inside must be washed with a sponge and soapy water and wiped dry.
In order not to get burned, in no case should you open the oven door while boiling water and immediately after turning it off!
Cleaning the oven with baking soda
In the kitchen every housewife has regular baking soda because without it you can not cook some dishes. Soda is used as a baking powder for the dough, if there is no ordinary baking powder on hand. Also, soda is used as a universal cleaner for various enamel dishes, including the oven.
Three ways to clean with soda
- In order to clean the enamel, you need to pour about 400-500 milliliters of hot water into the spray bottle, add a little liquid soap and half a teaspoon of soda. Shake it all well and spray the resulting mixture over the entire inner surface of the oven. Leave to soak for about 30 minutes. Then wipe the entire oven with warm water.
- The second cleaning method is longer. Here you need to take soda, moisten it with a small amount of water and mix into a thick mass. Apply the resulting mixture to the entire surface of the chamber and leave for about 2-3 hours. Then you need to clean the oven with a sponge and warm water. If the mixture is applied in the evening and washed off in the morning, the effect will be more perfect. If you add salt to the soda in a ratio of 1: 4, then the enamel will be better cleaned.
- Baking powder to which citric acid is added in a 1:1 ratio can also serve as an oven cleaner. If it is poured onto the wet enamel surface of the chamber, then within 50 minutes the fat itself will roll into small lumps, which can then simply be removed with a regular sponge or cloth with soapy water.
Cleaning the oven with vinegar
You can quickly and easily clean the oven with vinegar. For this it is necessary to wet the walls of the chamber with water, and then apply ordinary table vinegar to them and leave them to “sour” fat for about 30-40 minutes. Then wash it off with a soft sponge and warm water. If grease and dirt are strongly absorbed, then it is best to use a plastic stiff brush. But by no means metallic.
You can also make an effective homemade cleaning product from vinegar. To do this, you need to take a piece of alkaline laundry soap and grate it on a regular grater. Then separately mix soda and vinegar and pour this solution into the soap. Mix until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. If the mixture is too thick, add a little more water. By its consistency, you should get a composition similar to a cleaning paste. This paste must be rubbed on the dirty walls of the chamber and left for about 3-4 hours, and then washed off with a damp sponge along with exfoliated soot.
Cleaning the oven with ammonia
To prevent soda or salt from scratching the enamel, you can use ammonia to clean it. In terms of its effectiveness, ammonia is not inferior to even the most expensive chemical cleaners, and at the same time it is less harmful to human health.
In order to clean the oven chamber, you need to take ammonia and simply wipe the entire surface of the oven with it. Leave it on for 30-40 minutes and then wash off the dirt with a sponge soaked in warm water.
This method also has its significant drawbacks, since the ammonia solution must be applied only with thick rubber gloves so that it does not get on the skin of the hands. Also, due to the strong smell of ammonia, you will have to use a respirator during the cleansing process.
After cleaning the oven, it is necessary to: wash it well with warm water from ammonia, as the remaining smell can saturate the dishes that you will subsequently cook, as well as ventilate the entire kitchen or turn on the ventilation system so that the smell disappears completely.
How to clean oven door glass?
Clean oven glass on the doors is also possible in all of the above ways. But do not clean the glass with a stiff brush or metal scraper, as well as the enamel surface of the camera, as you can permanently damage the paint, and the glass will leave muddy marks from scratches that can never be removed from the glass surface.
In conclusion, it can be said that each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, so each housewife chooses for herself the most optimal method that can most effectively clean your oven from old grease and dirt.