Cleaning the oven

[Badgers]

Having been putting this off for a long long time.

 

[FiFi]

We pay a little man to do it every 6 months or. Well, I think it's every 6 months, he sends a reminder and we book a date for him to turn up.
There are some jobs i am very happy to pay someone else to do. I consider it my way of keeping a local business in work

 

[Pickman's model]

A woman at work cleans her oven every time she has a roast dinner. I personally think she's nuts but is that actually normal?

I know I am a filthy ass ho as I have not cleaned mine for (I think) 2 years but after every roast?? Surely not?

I think about cleaning mine after every fifty kippers

 

[fishfinger]

I think about cleaning mine after every fifty kippers

At that point, I'd imagine everything must taste of kippers

 

[Pickman's model]

At that point, I'd imagine everything must taste of kippers

And I'm glad of it

 

[Badgers]

We pay a little man to do it every 6 months or. Well, I think it's every 6 months, he sends a reminder and we book a date for him to turn up.
There are some jobs i am very happy to pay someone else to do. I consider it my way of keeping a local business in work

I kinda like this idea. Get someone in with the right kit, chemicals and expertise to do a proper job.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Having been putting this off for a long long time.

Me as well. It's pretty grim now, it puts out smoke sometimes.

We pay a little man to do it every 6 months or. Well, I think it's every 6 months, he sends a reminder and we book a date for him to turn up.
There are some jobs i am very happy to pay someone else to do. I consider it my way of keeping a local business in work

How much is it.

 

[FiFi]

Me as well. It's pretty grim now, it puts out smoke sometimes.



How much is it.

He charges £50. He leaves the oven sparkling, and also fixed the light in the cooker hood last time.

 

[Saffy]

They sometimes have oven cleaning on Groupon. I had my oven cleaned before Christmas for £39.

 

[MickiQ]

We pay a little man to do it every 6 months or. Well, I think it's every 6 months, he sends a reminder and we book a date for him to turn up.
There are some jobs i am very happy to pay someone else to do. I consider it my way of keeping a local business in work

Tell it like it is, I routinely point out to my wife that DIY is not community spirited and that by doing it, I am denying honest members of the working class, the opportunity to support their families.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Thanks folks. Can of this stuff it is...

 

[FiFi]

Tell it like it is, I routinely point out to my wife that DIY is not community spirited and that by doing it, I am denying honest members of the working class, the opportunity to support their families.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I clean the oven every several years. It's a job I absolutely hate so it's only done when absolutely necessary. Like the idea of paying someone to do it - worth fifty quid. Come to think of it I don't think I've cleaned the inside of the microwave since I bought it about four years ago.

 

[Chilli.s]

Don't waste your time and money. They are self cleaning, just run it on hot as it goes for 20 mins. Like a pan it'll develop a non stick surface inside over the years. You don't need to look through the window anyway.

 

[A380]

Tell it like it is, I routinely point out to my wife that DIY is not community spirited and that by doing it, I am denying honest members of the working class, the opportunity to support their families.

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.

Belloc

 

[8115]

I saw some stuff advertised that is massively effective but you don't even need to wear gloves. I am sceptical.

I would pay someone up to £20 to clean mine, might look into it. Otherwise it's not going to get done. It's quite clean anyway.

 

[8115]

£48. I can't justify that.

 

[WouldBe]

You can get a lot of gas for a blowtorch for £50.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Think its called oven pride - comes with a bag to soak the shelves in - works reasonably well.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Last time I tried, it was pretty much impossible.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

We pay a little man to do it

Does he climb inside?

 

[Epona]

We pay a little man to do it every 6 months or. Well, I think it's every 6 months, he sends a reminder and we book a date for him to turn up.
There are some jobs i am very happy to pay someone else to do. I consider it my way of keeping a local business in work

I would have actually been fine with this other than your statement that you pay "a little man" - I mean I'd be quite happy to clean an oven in exchange for cash, but being referred to as a little anything would fuck me right off, iykwim!

 

[bellaozzydog]

Two years then pay a bloke to do it in about 35 minutes

 

[MrCurry]

I clean mine when I can no longer see through the glass door, which is roughly once a year.

A combination of a razor blade type glass scraper (sold for the purpose of scraping clean glass ceramic hobs) and many applications of oven cleaner foam spray. One day maybe I can find a more effective cleaning fluid, which actually dissolves the gunk quicker than one micron layer at a time. Someone mentioned bicarb earlier in the thread - does that work?

The floor of the oven has one of those Teflon liner sheets from Poundland, which comes out and gets washed in the sink (well worth it). Oven shelves I don’t bother with. Who has time to scrub them back to silver colour and what’s the benefit anyway? Mine are dark ruby red/brown.

 

[campanula]

Christ, I only clean the top when it catches alight and requires a cold chisel. I don't believe I have ever cleaned an oven - they finally die and go to the tip (where I was faintly embarrassed at the state of it).

 

[felixthecat]

Oven Pride every 3-4 months. Slap it on, leave it overnight, rinse off in the morning. It's easy - why on earth would you pay someone to do it? Unless you're minging and haven't cleaned it for a decade that is

 

[hash tag]

Open the windows but the extractor on and turn the oven to its highest setting and leave it for an hour. Fuck scrubbing it with noxious chemicals.

Putting a bowl of water inside a hot oven certainly helps with the cleaning.
we have something stuck between the two glass panels and it's bugging the life out of me. I can get the door off easily enough but I can't get the panels off. I have even spoken to the manufacturers, who when everything else failed, offered to send an engineer out

At great cost

 

[oryx]

Putting a bowl of water inside a hot oven certainly helps with the cleaning.

How does that work - do you put in an oven-proof bowl of water, heat up the oven and leave it - for how long?

Ours is pretty gross. I need to add 'cleaning the oven' to the '2020 Hopes, Dreams and Plans' thread.

 

[WouldBe]

Christ, I only clean the top when it catches alight and requires a cold chisel. I don't believe I have ever cleaned an oven - they finally die and go to the tip (where I was faintly embarrassed at the state of it).

When I moved in here the oven was minging with about half an inch of fat all over it. Kitchen was done up fairly quickly and the old oven stuck in the garage until I got time to take it to the tip. When I got round to it all the crap was gone presumably eaten by woodlice so was clean when it got skipped.

 

[WouldBe]

How does that work - do you put in an oven-proof bowl of water, heat up the oven and leave it - for how long?

Ours is pretty gross. I need to add 'cleaning the oven' to the '2020 Hopes, Dreams and Plans' thread.

Water produces steam that softens the gunk.