How to Clean a Kitchen Oven

Cooking can create a disaster in your oven.

Your kitchen oven probably gets used often, but not necessarily every day. However, when someone does use the oven to prepare a meal, it's very likely that the results are going to leave a mess. Generally, the outside of your oven is easier to clean than the inside, but with the right cleaning methods and agents, you'll be able to get your entire oven sparkling clean.

Things You'll Need

• Water
• Liquid dish-washing soap
• Cloth
• Bowl
• Lemon juice
• Bleach
• Sponges
• Scrubbing pad

Instructions

1. Wait until your kitchen oven is completely cool before you start cleaning it.

2. Fill your sink with water, adding dish-washing soap. This is the same process you would use to wash a sink full of dishes.

3. Remove the burner racks from the oven and place them in the soapy water.

4. Dip a cloth into the soapy water and wring it out. Use the cloth to wipe down the outside surface of the oven, including the control knobs.

5. Scrub off the burner racks with the cloth. Rinse them with plain water and set them out to dry. Once dry, you can return them to the oven.

6. Mix up a cleaning solution in a bowl of one tablespoon each of lemon juice, bleach and dish-washing soap in one quart of water.

7. Soak a sponge in the cleaning solution and saturate the entire inside surface of your oven.

8. Allow the cleaning solution to sit in the oven for at least 45 minutes.

9. Scrub the inside of the oven with a scrubbing pad. Rinse using a separate sponge soaked in water.

References

• Mrs. Clean: How to Clean Your Oven