How often do you clean your oven?

[Pip]

I just attack it with a steam cleaner every couple of weeks.

What steam cleaner have you got?

 

[skunkboy69]

Just a little cheapy one from a catalogue shop

 

[sojourner]

It's just easier than leaving it for 6 months and taking hours.I can do it in minutes.

or you could just not do it at all

 

[Pip]

Just a little cheapy one from a catalogue shop

I might get one

 

[Geri]

Every few months, it's so much easier since I discovered that amazing stuff in the orange box that I can't remember the name of.

 

[Bomber]

Cripes! I'd beter clean mine !!! Thanks for the reminder !!!

 

[JeniD]

Every couple of months or so.

 

[RubyBlue]

annually.

 

[Numbers]

So often it doesn't need cleaning

 

[sojourner]

So often it doesn't need cleaning

typing in marigolds n all, I bet ya

 

[Jambooboo]

Wipe down the hob ever day and steam clean the inside every month or so (or as and when it needs it) - keep on top of it and it becomes a breeze.

 

[Cloo]

Almost never, but we do have a cleaner in every week, and she gets to it every few weeks, on days when the house is slightly tidier mode, so she has the time.

I have some Fairy oven cleaning stuff which is quite good, as it makes it not such a major mission as most oven cleaners.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

It's self cleaning. That means I don't have to

Yes, I know in reality that means that all the baked on food just slides to the bottom of the oven, but I really couldn't give a fuck.

Clean the fucking oven, inDEED

Indeed! One of the great things about wood-burning cookstoves is that you can get the firebox so hot that the oven temp exceeds 500°F. The food and splatters incinerate and any resultant smoke just goes up the flue. After that, it's a simple matter of cooling the oven down and taking the shop-vac to the ashes. Voilá-- clean oven!

 

[Pip]

Indeed! One of the great things about wood-burning cookstoves is that you can get the firebox so hot that the oven temp exceeds 500°F. The food and splatters incinerate and any resultant smoke just goes up the flue. After that, it's a simple matter of cooling the oven down and taking the shop-vac to the ashes. Voilá-- clean oven!

God I bet you can make great pizza

 

[scifisam]

I've only done it once, and then there was pretty much nothing to clean off, so I haven't bothered again. The slatted shelf that I cook pizzas on gets cleaned afterwards like any casserole dish or roasting pan would. The non-slatted shelf never gets cleaned because we never cook anything on it directly - always in a dish or at least on baking paper.

My insane clean-freak housemate many years ago insisted on the oven being cleaned weekly, and there did seem to be more dirt on it then than there ever has been on this one. I don't cook meat in it, so maybe that's why it doesn't get dirty? Can't think of any other reason.