How to clean the oven: 6 effective means
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
If the oven walls were covered with fat that every time you turn undercooked and stinks, and formed a brown door plaque, do not panic. Layfhaker can easily and quickly restore the pristine purity of the oven.
Modern ovens, especially electrical, are often equipped with a self-cleaning systems. But pyrolysis and catalysis functions greatly increase the cost of the unit.
Most users prefer the oven with the usual hydrolysis cleaning. This is when in the preheated oven put the pan with water and wait until the steam will melt the fat.
But water alone is often not enough. If the stains are ingrained and long-standing accessories are required for cleaning products. On them will be discussed below, as long as a few basic rules.
The basic rules of care for the oven
- The more often, the better. If the inner surface of the oven cleaned after each cooking, but every week and a half oven steam thoroughly with water and detergent, to arrange global cleaning virtually have to.
- To yield to the dirt better, a little warm up the oven, turning it up to 50 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
- Immediately prior to cleaning, remove the baking trays, remove the lateral guides. If the design permits, remove as door and windows. All this is more convenient to wash separately.
- Do not use abrasive sponges or metallic scrapers. Ottiraya of fat can damage the enamel of the oven. It is better to work with a sponge or soft cloth.
- Never apply the cleaner, especially chemical, to the fan and heating elements of the oven.
- After cleaning, leave the oven door open for a few hours so that it has dried, and evaporated odors.
- The smell was? Dissolve in a teacup 10-15 tablets of activated charcoal for several hours and place in oven. Charcoal absorbs the extra flavors.
How to clean the oven with baking soda
Soda copes with fresh dirt and removes brown plaque with a heat-resistant glass.
Based on soda can cook Pastes for cleaning the oven or act easier.
Apply baking soda on the oven walls (you can do it with a damp sponge). Bit sprinkle them with water from a spray bottle and leave it for 60 minutes.
After one hour wash the oven sponge soaked with soapy water and dry with paper towels.
On old stains better job soda and vinegar.
How to clean the oven vinegar and baking soda
In the reaction of vinegar and baking soda produces carbon dioxide. It destroys even a dried fatty plaque.
Treat the inner surface of the oven first vinegar, then apply a wet sponge soda. Leave the oven well for a couple of hours and then wash with warm water.
If somewhere spots are not moved away, rub the edges with a sponge soaked in vinegar.
How to clean the oven with lemon
There are two methods for cleaning the oven by means of lemon: using fresh lemon juice and citric acid powder.
- The first method is more suitable for fresh dirt. Mix equal parts lemon juice and water. Using sponges treat the walls of the oven with the solution. Let stand for 40-60 minutes, then wipe everything clean, damp cloth.
- The second method is to cope with the abundant fat bloom and is suitable for cleaning the microwave. Fill deep pan or other heat-resistant tableware with water and citric acid. By ½ liters of water need one packet of citric acid. Send a pan heated to 200 ° C oven for 30-40 minutes. Then let the oven cool slightly and carefully wash it. Spots that do not go away right away, you can scrub with the help of fresh lemon slices.
The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated in the following video.
How to clean the oven baking powder
Baking powder, baking powder, or simply, can be used not only for baking, but also to clean trays and oven afterwards. After all, in fact, it's the same soda in combination with citric acid.
Just wipe the walls of the oven with a wet rag and treat diluted in water baking powder. On baking powder package need about 2-3 tablespoons of water, to get the consistency of a thick cream of wheat.
Leave the tool on the surface of the oven for 2-3 hours. Fatty plaque will gather in clumps, and it will be easy to remove.
How to clean the oven cooking salt
Sol - affordable tool that is best applied immediately after cooking. sodium chloride when heated makes bold raid loose, which means it will be easier to wash off the dirt.
Sprinkle salt on a horizontal surface (opposite, bottom), while the oven is still hot, and leave it for half an hour.
If the cabinet could cool turn heating (≈100 ° C). When the salt acquire golden hue, disconnect the oven.
When the temperature drops, wash all surfaces with warm soapy water. At the end of the wipe everything with paper towels.
How to clean the oven with ammonia
Many housewives think this method is the most effective. Ammonia is really excellent and eating away at the fat burning-that occur over time in the oven.
Ammonia oven can be cleaned in two ways.
- Cold method. Simply apply ammonia on the surface of the oven with a sponge or a spray atomizer. Leave overnight and in the morning wash the oven with mild detergent.
- Hot method. Preheat oven to 60 ° C. Switch off. Put on the top shelf of a glass of liquid ammonia. At the bottom - a bowl of boiling water. Close the door and leave the oven on the way for eight hours. This cleaning method is convenient to use at night or during the day with the windows open and a minimum of households in the apartment. At the end of the right time to add ammonia, is in the oven, detergent and wash all surfaces with this solution.
After the ammonia necessary to ventilate the oven.
Clean the oven in some other way? Share your methods in the comments.