How clean is your oven and how often do you clean it?

SkeeterUK

SkeeterUK

SkeeterUK

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Just wondered cos im bored as heck about this at the mo. Mine atm is well erm the silver grille things u put things on like baking trays aint silver atm. Theres a bit of crusting at the bottom i cant recall how it got there and the doors a bit stained its one of them window ones.

I cleaned it about a year or two ago a bloody good clean with a ton of mr mussle as well. Just cba to do it again till it gets a bit worse lol.

Hows yours and do you worry about bacteria or whatever or do you reckon ur ok cos of the temps and stuff.
 
Dirty, prolly once or twice a year, usually when I'm doing some infrequent baking and can't see through the glass, but baking stuff you can't just open the door.

I hate cleaning oven, it jsut doesn't come off.
 
Never yet as it is only three months old. Cool thing is though is that the the oven door is double glazed and the inside pane is removable to make cleaning it a lot easier. I did find a cindered piece of pepperoni at the bottom the other day which must have been in there for a month or so.
 
I tried once cleaning it myself using some oven cleaner I got from the supermarket.
I almost passed out from the fumes!

Now I just get a professional in once a year and it comes out spotless. The chap dismantles everything, including the glass doors.
 
We keep this mat thing at the bottom, when it gets overly dirty you just throw that away, clean the glass door and its done. 5min job if that.
 
Glaucus said:
Dirty, prolly once or twice a year, usually when I'm doing some infrequent baking and can't see through the glass, but baking stuff you can't just open the door.
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SkeeterUK said:
Hows yours and do you worry about bacteria or whatever or do you reckon ur ok cos of the temps and stuff.
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I work on the principal that a) anything I'm cooking usually sits in a baking tray and nothing actually touches the sides of the oven, b) it's an oven, which gets hot and I'm trusting that heat to kill any germs.
 
I get someone in to clean the doors and seals but ours has that stuff the burns any food off and just falls to the bottom. We just have an old baking tray we brush off the crud every now and then.

Probably should invest in some of those mats as above as I've heard good reports.
 
The oven in the house we moved into 3 months ago was disgusting, I don't think it had ever been cleaned!!

I scrubbed the bars and left it at that as I want to replace the whole thing sometime soon!!!
 
Ours is self-cleaning. It heats up to around 800° F (425° C) and turns everything inside to soot. Then just a damp sponge and it all wipes out pretty easily. We run the cycle about once a year because it takes about 6 hours.

I usually keep a sheet of aluminium foil on the bottom rack so if there is any spillover from cooking I can just pull it out and throw it away. The oven seems to stay cleaner longer that way.
 
Well...this thread has went someway into making me feel better about my infrequent cleaning of the oven.

I tried it a couple of times over the last few years but the thick stuff just won't budge and I soon get bored and give up.


We bought a large 4 bedroom house though that family are renting from us. Once we move into there in 2014 I'm 100% hiring a cleaner.

We both work full time, study part time, workout daily and then have all our hobbies to fit in. Only reason I don't hire one now is my house is a tiny 2 bedroom so I'd feel like a right lazy **** ;)
 
I just had mine done professionally. I do my best to keep it clean but after a while it gets away from me and I get someone in to do it. It was only the second time in six years though. I generally clean it once every couple of months myself.
 
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