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How to Clean your Oven - Oven Cleaning Tips
Ideally you should clean your oven once a week if you cook every day and every two weeks if you cook less frequently. Having a sparkling clean oven helps keep your kitchen smelling just of the food and prevents your food from smelling of yesterday’s leftovers.
With today's modern cleaning products cleaning the oven is no longer the chore it once was. Homecare Essentials can offer a choice of Oven Cleaning Products (see below) to get the job done in double quick time.
Firstly we would always recommend wearing rubber gloves when cleaning your oven to protect your skin and placing paper towels or old tea-towels on the floor at the front of the oven as it can get messy!
TIP: To make the oven easier to clean, put a bowl of water in the oven at a high temperature for about 20 minutes. The steam loosens the deposits, to make it easier to clean.
Cleaning the outside of the Oven: For stainless steel panels use a good quality stainless steel cleaner. If your oven panel is glass, spray with a multi-surface kitchen cleaner/degreaser. For this task we would recommend HG Grease Away. We would also recommending soaking knobs in hot, soapy water as they can be unpleasant if they are greasy. Make sure that they are put back correctly.
Cleaning the inside of the Oven:
1. Firstly remove oven trays and racks and place them in the sink. Use a scraper or scouring pad to remove food leftovers and carbon. Coat them liberally with your Oven Cleaner and scrub using a hard nylon brush. Apply some more Oven Cleaner and leave it to work whilst you clean the rest of the oven.
An easier alternative to this is to use Oven Brite. Simply put the racks in the bag supplied with the solution and leave it to work.
2. Go back to the oven and remove any loose carbon or food deposits.
TIP: Turn on the Cooker Hood for ventilation. This will help with the unpleasant vapours that Oven Cleaners can produce.
3. Your oven should be cleaned according to the type of linings or cleaning systems it has. Refer to your oven manual for specific direction.
a) Enamel linings (untreated) - Apply the Oven Cleaner generously on the inside surfaces of the oven and the inside of the glass door. Even with a spray it is better to spread with a dish-brush. Work the Oven Cleaner into the deposits if required. Avoid scrubbing the rubber door seal as this might damage it.
Shut the door and let your chosen Oven Cleaner do its job.
For really tough problems it is advisable to keep brushing the Oven Cleaner every 2-3 minutes to maximise its penetration. After the period of time specified by the product manufacturer the interior should be able to be wiped down with paper towels until no trace of the Oven Cleaner and deposits remain.
Stubborn deposits may need more work with a scraper.
Finally wipe the interior with a damp cloth and then again with a dry cloth and leave the oven door open to dry out and ventilate.
b) Self-cleaning or catalytic lining: The oven sides are treated with a special vitreous enamel that absorbs grease. They ensure that fat and grease are burnt off and vaporized rather than being deposited on their surface. Heat the oven to a high temperature for about 30 minutes once a week for best results. Avoid detergents on the self-cleaning surfaces, however Oven Cleaners can be used elsewhere.
c) Pyrolytic cleaning: Top of the range ovens have a built-in cleaning cycle. The empty oven is heated to a very high temperature for a specific period time. This turns the dirt to ashes, which can be brushed out easily when the oven is cool.
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