Here’s a little joke for you: “How do people know when to move? When the oven gets dirty.”
Cleaning the oven is a truly daunting job and it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. The black dried carbon stuck to the sides of your oven is incredibly hard to remove, especially if you don’t have a self-cleaning oven. Few cleaning products are powerful enough to effectively clean off the grime and the powerful ones are often contain chemicals you definitely don’t want in your food. You could be doomed to an eternity of scrubbing, or you could try this cheap and relatively labor-free method. This method uses baking soda as a primary ingredient—which is perfectly safe to be consumed —and should involve no scrubbing. However, it does take time, so it may not be the best option if you need your oven cleaned quickly. Here is how to clean an oven:
1. Buy a large empty spray bottle (that holds a quart to a liter) and baking soda. Make sure that the nozzle isn’t too fine and that dissolved baking soda will be able to pass through. The spray bottle should also not have held any other substance other than baking soda or water previously.
2. Place three heaping teaspoons of baking soda into the spray bottle using a funnel.
3. Wash the baking soda into the spray bottle by pouring water into the funnel. Use this method to fill the bottle up with water.
4. Shake the spray bottle well so that all the baking soda dissolves. Otherwise, you might have baking soda residue at the bottom of your spray bottle after you are done.
5. Spray the solution on the black grime multiple times throughout the day, but make sure the oven is cold before you do so. You don’t want to get baking soda everywhere or get burnt.
6. Eventually the black grime will detach from the sides and flow down to the floor of your oven as a powder that you can wipe away.
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