Oven Cleaning

[diddlydo]

How often do you clean your oven? I cook a lot and am quite obsessive about food hygiene but as for oven cleaning.......when everything is sticky inside!

[rockyracoon]

I used to do it rarely (twice a yearish) when I had my old gas oven. Now I've got shiny new pyrolitic cleaning ones, I do them every 5-6 weeks, unless they are particularly dirty.

[Buenchico]

I gave my oven a quick wipe out with a damp cloth last year. As far as I can recall, that's the only 'cleaning' it's ever had in 25 years!

I don't do roasts, so I don't get a lot of grease, and I don't bake things like cakes, which require a nice clean oven. (I mainly use my oven for casseroles, etc, which don't generate much 'dirt').

[janzman]

As with any cleaning be it dusting polishing vacuuming, house or car, oven cleaning, do it once a week and its a piece of cake, leave it for a month or two and its a long and labourious job.

[Jackdaw33]

I prefer Chico's approach, except I haven't got round to the quick wipe with a damp cloth yet.

[Tilly2]

My ovens are self cleaning (I can't remember the terminology) and take a couple of hours to complete. Therefore, I only do them on nice, sunny days when I can use the generated solar power to clean them and can leave the windows open for ventilation.

Thus, in the summer my ovens sparkle. In the winter, they don't.

[Buenchico]

>>> I haven't got round to the quick wipe with a damp cloth ye

You only reach that stage, JD33, when the smoke detector in your living room goes off every time you use the oven in your kitchen ;-)

[EcclesCake]

I get a man in once a year. It's the best £50 I spend each year, he's doing it for a living and consequently has a tad more drive and determination than I can ever muster.

[melv16]

I get a man in once a year. It's the best £50 I spend each year, he's doing it for a living and consequently has a tad more drive and determination than I can ever muster.
Along with cleaning cars for a living, it must be a job from hell:-)

[ummmm]

I'm getting a new oven soon and I'll promise myself I'll do it weekly but will prob end up doing what Eccles does.

[ubasses]

I give it a wipe over once a week, then the same as Eccles, which reminds me it is just about due. Must give him a ring.

[Cloverjo]

I only clean mine when it's really disgusting, and my son and his fiancée come to stay.

I remember her recoiling the first time she came here and she opened the oven to put a pizza in.

I am quite ashamed, but there's always something else I'd rather be doing.

[jourdain2]

As little as possible! OP It gets very hot and should kill all germs.

[hc4361]

My pyrotechnic oven is one of my best ever buys. Being asthmatic most oven cleaners are a no-no for me and I have always hated cleaning the oven so put it off until it is impossible to clean.

Now I just set the cleaning cycle, let it do its thing then sweep out the 'ash' from the bottom when it's cooled. Easy peasy.

[cassa333]

OMG you're supposed to clean it?

[saintpeter48]

A couple of times a year with Mr Muscle oven cleaner, a bucket of hot water and a spare hour, it does the trick for me.