Hey ya’ll oven cleaning is usually such a tremendous chore. The oven spray that chokes you out, the hours on self-clean, and after all that still having the oven look old and not so appealing. After cleaning many ovens over my years this by far is the quickest and easiest way to clean out stuck on cheese and sauce. Did you ever want to cry after cooking a pizza on the rack (as per instruction) to find half of it on the bottom of the oven. Oh and you’re in a rush so the burnt on cheese stays on the bottom of the stove and you forget about it until you preheat your oven for another meal and your kitchen fills up with smoke. Umm… or does this just happen to me?
Here are the easy steps to a clean and shiny stove that looks like the day you bought it.
- Purchase some kind of All Natural Biodegradable Cleaning paste, I used Earth Brite (from HSN), you may also like Bar Keeper’s Friend or something similar on Amazon Prime.
- Sponge
- I used Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap, or you can use some dish soap.
- Steel wool
- A good Microfiber cloth
- pair of rubber gloves
Directions
- Coat entire area with Cleaning Paste with a sponge and let sit for 15 minutes.
- Add a couple squirts of Castile Soap or dish soap.
- Scrub entire area with steel wool.
- I usually let it sit 5 min after scrubbed down with the product on it.
- Wipe down on with a clean damp micro fiber cloth.
- Repeat if necessary, until shiny and new.
Before
Taking your range apart is something that I suggest you do at least once a month, you won’t believe the crumbs and grease that gets down inside and prevents the stove from working to it’s upmost potential. Plus it can be a fire hazard.
This process works on all types of stove tops and the cleaning paste is safe for glass top ranges, but please note***that you shouldn’t use steel wool on the glass stove top because you may scratch the surface. I would use a green scotch brite scrubber for a glass top.
This friends is honestly the easiest way that I have found to power through even the worst build up on stove tops and ovens. Now this is for my friends who actually use their oven for baking not for my friends who use their ovens for storage. XO ~Sherri
Sherri! Great post:) How about over racks? They are not silver anymore, look more brass from all the grease build up. Please let me know how you come with those:)
Hi Maria, Yes…. I would use the same exact process on the oven racks, with the same products. I need to work on those asap. I’ll let you know how they turn out. ~Sherri