Clean baked-on oven grime with cooking utensil you already own
Banish grease and grime from your oven in no time with this handy hack.
Unless you keep on top of all the cleaning jobs throughout your home, there are bound to be some areas that you just don’t think of cleaning until they get too dirty to ignore. For most of us, one of those areas is the oven. We don’t look inside the appliance until we’re using it for cooking, so the dirt can go unnoticed as it’s usually out of sight, out of mind.
However, the inside of your oven can get very dirty very quickly. It’s an appliance used to cook food, and as such, it comes into contact with a lot of oils, grease, and food debris that can become welded to the bottom over time.
The problem with ignoring your oven for too long is that the grease and dirt can become impossible to clean, as they become stuck to the surface of the appliance, and no amount of scrubbing will budge them.
But there is one thing you can do. Cleaning fans have claimed there’s a simple way to get your oven sparkling clean again – and it involves one item you already have in your kitchen cupboard.
In a post on Reddit, one person asked for advice on cleaning their oven as they showed the inside of the appliance’s door covered in thick grime.
They explained they recently moved into a new place, and the previous owners left the oven in a state and asked how they could restore it to its former glory.
And before long, commenters on the post were offering various helpful tips – including several who suggested a £1.50 cleaning product that “works wonders” when paired with a simple cooking aid.
The advice? Pair Pink Stuff Paste with a ball of kitchen foil.
One person said: “Apply The Pink Stuff with a piece of aluminium foil balled up. I just did this and was shocked at how easy it was. I balled up some foil, dipped it into the small container of The Pink Stuff and then scrubbed the oven, and it immediately came off. Then I did a quick wipe down with a soapy sponge, and then a paper towel, and my oven has never looked this clean.”
Another echoed their tip, stating: ” The BEST thing for this is the pink stuff and use a ball of aluminium foil to apply it! It works like a charm.”
You can pick up The Pink Stuff from supermarkets for around £1.50 for a tub, and it’s likely you already have some kitchen foil in your cupboards.
Other suggestions people had included using a pumice stone to scrub down the affected area and even taking a “one-sided razor blade” to the gunk to slowly scrape it off.
Someone else also shared: “If you cover in oven cleaner, then cover the foam (from the oven cleaner) with cling wrap! Look it up on Google. It works wonders! Good luck!”
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