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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 4, 2013 22:35:47 GMT -5
As soon as I read this, I had to go see if my oven really had those slots. It does! In fact, they're big enough to easily use one of the contraptions in the tutorial. I shined a flashlight into them and you could see it in the oven window. I wish I knew about this years ago! My old oven had a spider living in a web between the panes. askannamoseley.com/2013/01/how-to-clean-between-oven-glass/ |
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Post by Valerie on Mar 5, 2013 22:53:47 GMT -5
Her stove is very similar to mine! I wonder how guck gets between the glasses. I didn't clean my oven this winter  I never remember until it's already warming up! Sunday would have been a good day, too, it was so cold. It scares me, though, because it gets so hot. It discolored the paint around the vent and the door, from the hot air! |
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Mar 6, 2013 17:08:35 GMT -5
Shoot, why is she laying on the floor? Doesn't her oven door lift off?
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 6, 2013 17:19:58 GMT -5
If it's like my old one, it's easier to lie on the floor than to put the thing back on.
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Post by upnorthlady2 on Mar 6, 2013 18:36:02 GMT -5
Looks like a lot of work to me! I just hang a kitchen hand towel on the oven handle over the glass - this way you can't see the dirt. Out of sight, out of mind, ya know? (just so you know....oven cleaning is my least favorite chore, and one I do only if I absolutely must!)
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 6, 2013 19:00:03 GMT -5
You're supposed to clean the oven???  About all I ever do is clean the window in the oven door. If necessary, I use a razor blade to get the crud off, then spray it with window cleaner and wipe. Once in a while, I'll use a spatula to scoop out the charred debris from the bottom of the stove. Oven cleaner makes me sick, even the no-fumes kind. Just not worth it. |
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Post by upnorthlady2 on Mar 6, 2013 20:47:41 GMT -5
You're supposed to clean the oven??? That's what they say! I've tried that old wives tale thing of using a little bowl of ammonia and letting it sit overnight in the oven "so things will wipe off easily". Ya right, easily my foot! I still had to scrub and scrub and the ammonia fumes weren't any better than using oven cleaner. I clean my oven about every 2 years. I hate to admit this, but I have even used a vacuum cleaner to sweep out loose burnt on stuff that I pried loose with a screwdriver! Now, is that lazy or what? As for cleaning the oven door, my oven actually has little hex-type screws that I can undo and separate the door and the glass and clean everything with glass cleaner and then screw everything back into place. I have a non-digital Frigidaire oven/stove, electric. I also have an Amana wall oven that is digital and I can do the same thing with that - take it apart and clean things. I'd say the reason I have 2 stoves is so that I only have to clean things once in a blue moon, but actually I use the regular stove for general casserole baking and such, and the digital wall oven for all my other baking like breads, cookies, etc. The digital oven does hold the oven temp better. The wall oven rarely needs cleaning because cookies and breads don't drip, and I always use a pan under my pies to catch any drips. The other oven that I use for meatloaf, roasts, etc, always gets dirty and greasy, but I try hard to clean things up while the oven is still warm - so I don't have to clean that oven for at least 2 or 3 years!!!!! |
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 6, 2013 20:56:24 GMT -5
I don't think that using a vacuum to clean out the oven is lazy. I think it's brilliant! Sure would be easier than trying to scoop out ashes with a spatula!
My old oven had slits along the top of the oven door and, if something boiled over on the stovetop, down those slits it would go, all over the inside of the windows. There was a way to take the door apart, and Dan did it once, but it was so hard to get back on that we never did it again (in 16 years) If I were cooking directly on the oven racks or floor, I'd be more particular about keeping it clean, but I don't see the importance if you use pans or foil.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Mar 6, 2013 21:06:12 GMT -5
I don't think that using a vacuum to clean out the oven is lazy. I think it's brilliant! Sure would be easier than trying to scoop out ashes with a spatula! sheesh - you guys don't own a garden hose ? |
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Post by Granny Smith on Mar 6, 2013 21:21:01 GMT -5
The hose is frozen.
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I never remember until it's already warming up! Sunday would have been a good day, too, it was so cold. It scares me, though, because it gets so hot. It discolored the paint around the vent and the door, from the hot air!
