Pictures of Self Cleaning Pyrolytic Oven

[chipperhead]

Pyrolytic Ovens were new to me when I specced a kitchen about 18 months ago. Maybe it was just me who had never heard of them but the idea is they get up to a temperature of 500c and turn all grease and deposits to ash which can be simply wiped away.

I thought it sounded like a good idea when I was deciding on appliances but wondered how good it would actually work.

You need to remember to remove the racks prior to cleaning as it would tarnish them.

Most of the deposits have gone leaving ash.

A wipe over with a damp cloth.

So a great function and I'd definitely recommend this feature if choosing a new oven.

 

[Glaucus]

Thats impressive, can you get it 100x dirtier first and see how it goes.
Let a stew boil over and bake in for 8hours.

 

[chipperhead]

Hats impressive, can you get it 100x dirtier first and see how it goes.
Let a stew boil over and bake in for 8hours.

Thing is it never gets really bad as it gets a clean about once every 3 -4 months.

 

[Addicted]

I like the logic, if it's dirty, BURN IT!

Seems impressive though!

 

[Bry]

my next oven will be one. hate cleaning the bloody oven

 

[Maccapacca]

So you still have to clean all the racks?

The bits that get dirty the most

 

[cheechm]

Uses a ton of electricity no doubt?

 

[Glaucus]

Uses a ton of electricity no doubt?

I'll be far cheaper than oven cleaner, have you seen the cost of oven cleaner solvents.

 

[Makhaira]

Yea they're good. Handy for low level heat treatments too!

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

that does look impressive, you may have just cost me £250

 

[oceaness]

Seen my dads oven do this, always looks spotless inside and most importantly, minimal effort required.

The side "racks" on his are just raised bumps in the wall of the oven so less to clean there too.

 

[peterwalkley]

Lakeland oven mate cleaning gel is 8 quid and I'm still on a bottle bought 3 years ago. Cheaper than a new oven!

 

[BigBoy]

OMFG why have I only just found out about this!! Just installed a new oven too

 

[Glanza]

Know what I'm getting when this oven packs in.

 

[Martynt74]

Yeah we've got this feature in our Bosch, as the poster above said because its so easy to do we do it every couple months so it never really builds up.

On ours there are 3 settings and if you set it to the lowest setting then you can leave the wire racks in during the clean which still does a decent job on the rest of the oven.

 

[spookywillow]

I don't see why this hasn't become more mainstream, We had a massive cooker when I was a kid (25 years or so ago) and it had a built in microwave in the oven and the best thing was it self cleaned like the OP. First time I have seen this function since!

 

[TheVoice]

Common in larger American ovens I think, my parents' one in Canada had this. Also beeped to tell you it was up to temperature when pre-heating, which was useful.

 

[Shaz]sigh[]

I have my Pyrolytic oven sitting in its box waiting for my kitchen to be fitted.

I wanted the feature so much it actually ended up costing me an extra £600.

I had wanted a double oven for flexibility but after spotting that you couldn't really get a double Pyrolytic, I ended up buying a single oven and a combi oven with microwave so rather than £850 or so on a double oven, it ended up being £650 on a Pyrolytic and £800 on the combi.

Worth it though, I detest cleaning ovens.

 

[pitchfork]

I'd just hire a cleaner every so often than spend a few hundred.

 

[Shaz]sigh[]

To be honest, if you wanted a decent single oven, its price comparable within £50 or so.

Samsung and AEG do sub £500 ones last time I checked.

It's just that I wanted two cavities (ooer) so had to stump up the extra.