The man who came to mend my oven said.......

Remove the racks, spray them with a degreaser and leave them to one side. Warm the oven to 50 degrees. Spray the oven with any oven cleaner, leave it for about 5 minutes, then with a small scraper, similar to a stanley knife blade, scrape all the black residue of the oven and wipe it with paper towel. Afterwards just wipe the excess cleaner off with a damp cloth. It takes me a maximum of fifteen minutes and you don't need to drown the place with the dirty oven cleaner water at the end. I used to hate cleaning the oven but this way it doesn't feel like such a great chore.

I put the Oven Pride bag containing the dirty shelves on the floor of the garage overnight to do its work. In the morning I discovered that the bag had sprung a leak and the cleaning solution had eaten a hole in the concrete. Powerful stuff!

the cleaning solution had eaten a hole in the concrete. Powerful stuff!
[gasp]
Well, I'm not surprised because if you get any on your arm it burns and leaves a scar!

I have just bought some Oven Pride to have another go, as I cleaned my oven with the oven cleaner from Lidl and it just slid off the sides.

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I have a lovely natural paste and it did nothing whatsoever on my oven, perhaps I was supposed to use it weekly

Teehee - glad I'm not the only one.

do agree with you actully

I really did clean my oven (I know, I know, about time too, some would say...) last weekend after seeing this thread.

We also - for the first time - were brave enough to remove the oven door to take out and clean those pesky panes of glass (and there were four of them, no less. I always thought there were three!).

I can now see what I am burning

I meant to add that when visiting my optician, the young assistant told me (and I have absolutely no idea quite how we managed to reach this topic of conversation!) that whenever she had a spare afternoon, she loved to relax by cleaning her oven!

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The lists of "I'm on" and "Last hour" show shortened bits of posts with things like "I meant to add that when visiting my optician, the young ass . . ." which made me wonder just what the young ass did that was so asinine.

My list of emails is the same. If I get a PM it informs me that "A gransnet member with the username XXXX has sent you a mess . . ."

I thought she was rather asinine (such a pretty young thing and she should have better things to do than to repeatedly clean her oven) but each to their own!

Elegran, I promise not to send you any messes!