Oven cleaner?

[sconeonamission]

Ok, i've done my groceries but forgot to get oven cleaner coz that oven is dirty! Is there something I might have at home that I could use? Thanks!

[Winter]

If you want to clean the racks, I soak them in Nappisan overnight, it gets all the baked on stuff off. You could try making a solution and spraying it on your oven, but I haven't tried it so don't know if it would work

[Cupcake]

Would a bicarb paste work?

[AnyDream]

I was going to say the Napisan thing but Winter beat me to it!

[Liz]

I soaked the oven racks in washing powder over night and the grease just falls off!

The oven itself, I just used a curly steel wool thingy and dishwashing liquid. I just treated it like an oven dish haha. I didn't scrub too hard, and i used a much gentler scourer to do the glass at the front. But otherwise, the oven came up pretty shmick, all without oven cleaner! I vowed never to use oven cleaner again when I burnt my arm with it

[sconeonamission]

hmm... must get scourer thing!

Thank you! I'll give that a go!

[Liz]

I think I wet mine first with soapy water to try and 'soak' it a bit.. but was just thinking.. maybe stick hot wet paper towels onto it to soak it? I might try that next time. Might help lift it a bit before wiping it out.

The enjo method is to have a bowl of boiling hot water in the oven and keep topping it up every half hour so you kind of steam the oven to loosen the grease, then you just wipe out with the enjo glove. A friend of mine did it and said it worked well. But I don't usually have that block of time to clean it haha.. so I just used more elbow grease

[sconeonamission]

how many times do you have to top it up? Surely after an hour it's not easy enough to wipe off....

[Kazbah]

I pull out everything that will move and clean it in a mixture of bicarb paste with vinegar (or lemon juice if I have any) and elbow grease. Glass with bicarb / vinegar. You don't need a plastic scourer - old pantyhose stuffed with newspaper will give gentle scour. Inside I use lemon or vinegar in hot water to loosen the grease, and then a bicarb paste to shine.

[Liz]

I think you did it about 3 or 4 times. So a couple of hours of just topping up the boiling water. But I think it loosens it well.

Lemon or vinegar sounds like a good idea too.