How to clean the oven, if it is covered with fat, soot? The resulting brown coating on the door interferes with normal thermal insulation. The smell of burnt food debris is already tired, and the cooking process does not bring joy. We offer several ways to clean the oven easily and effortlessly. This will require a minimum of time and money, as well as a little skill.
Basic features in oven care
Each technique involves personal care, whether it is a frying pan, oven or stove. Almost every electric oven is equipped with a self-cleaning function. But the gas will have to tinker with:
- The catalytic cleaning of ovens is a chemical reaction when fat breaks down. The result is carbon and water.
- Pyrolytic cleaning of the oven: what is it - the process of burning fat at a temperature of 500 degrees.
In both cases, water is required. As stated in many operating instructions, a bowl of water is installed on the bottom of the oven. Then heating occurs during the "warm-up" mode. After half an hour, you can clean the cabinet with a simple rag without adding detergent components.
But not all housewives have such a function. It is expensive - units with such modes cost from several hundred dollars. In addition, it is recommended to clean them every time after cooking. This is expensive due to the cost of electricity, time.
How to clean the oven: detergents
Hydrolysis sometimes saves the situation when it is impossible to manually remove old deposits with a sponge. To do this, you need:
- Heat the oven to 280 degrees or the maximum temperature on your oven model.
- Remove the shelves and trays after baking, so that the fat moves away from the metal elements.
- Contaminants are removed half an hour after treatment with an oven cleaner.
- Some baking sheets (from stainless steel) need to be presoaked in warm water.
- The walls of the oven are washed after cooling.
- If a detergent is used for the oven, it is applied to the walls and left for 10 minutes.
- Rinse off the product with a sponge, periodically washing it under running water.
Be sure to use rubber gloves. This will protect the skin from the effects of household chemicals.
The modern substance is "Amway" for ovens. The gel does not contain abrasive substances. Suitable for ovens and stoves, barbecue grills and roasters. It copes with burnt sugar, old fat, burnt pieces of food. It is necessary to apply "Amway" for ovens on the walls of the oven, leave for half an hour and wipe with a sponge soaked in water.
It is not recommended to use gel if your oven has a self-cleaning function. Suitable for enameled and stainless surfaces. It is better not to wash aluminum, painted and chrome-plated products of equipment. Use a homemade improvised homemade product. We will talk about this later.
Spot effect on fat
How to clean an oven that is completely greasy? To do this, soda, vinegar and laundry soap come down:
- Dilute laundry soap in 100-150 ml of hot water.
- Pour the product into the pan and place it in the oven.
- Turn on the equipment, warming up to 100 degrees.
- After 25 minutes, turn off the appliance.
- Wash off the softened grease with a damp sponge.
If deposits are poorly erased, repeat the procedure.
Soda solution
An excellent tool for cleaning the oven will be soda. It should be stirred in water until the consistency of liquid sour cream. The mixture is applied to the walls of the unit for 15-20 minutes. The surface should be rubbed with a washcloth or the abrasive side of the sponge, so the method is not suitable for an enameled and painted oven.
Important! Soda needs to be washed off carefully, as pieces of the dried mixture can remain on the walls of the cabinet. A good tool for cleaning ovens and stoves is vinegar. It does not corrode walls, like professional household chemicals, it is suitable for many types of surfaces.
Acetic solutions and fat control acids
Every housewife has table vinegar. It can be useful not only in cooking, but also in cleaning kitchen utensils:
- Dilute the vinegar with water in a 1: 1 ratio.
- apply the solution to contaminated areas.
- After 10-15 minutes, remove residual carbon deposits and grease from the walls of the oven.
If you need to clean a baking sheet, wire rack, electric stove, wipe with vinegar all surfaces and rinse with water.
Acetic acid is also suitable in the fight against carbon deposits. Old dirt, dry pieces of food can not always be softened and removed by professional means. As a rule, acetic acid does not contain harmful components, is developed according to GOST, is considered environmentally friendly. Recipe:
- Acetic acid is an excellent tool for cleaning ovens and stoves. It is mixed with soda. First, soda is applied to the surface, then quenched with vinegar. Sometimes a ready-to-use grill cleaning solution is used.
- Remove residues with soapy water.
If you did not know how to clean the electric oven inside, so as not to spoil the enamel, surface, vinegar and soda - the most avid opponents of fat deposits. See what other methods of dealing with purity pests exist.
Old soot - heavy artillery!
How to clean the oven, which is covered with old and dried up burnt fat? Neither professional chemistry, nor soda solutions, nor the efforts of the housewives take it. In such cases, you should not turn to grandmothers and their wisdom for advice, but to the trivial knowledge of chemistry from high school:
- Salt is an absorbent that absorbs fatty components. Salt should be treated with a stainless steel surface so that the coating does not deteriorate and is not scratched. For enamel, this method is not suitable. When the salt turns brown, moisture and body fat are believed to be absorbed. You can remove the mixture from the surface.
- Baking powder - they rub the surface of the walls of the oven. The powder rolls into balls in which fat is present. The cinder will also go away if you first moisten the walls of the oven.
- Citric acid - the finished powder is a round granule. If you mix them with water and spray on the walls of the oven, after 12 hours you can wipe the walls of the equipment and remove all soot and old fat.
These are old effective ways. There are several other options on how to quickly clean the oven.
Ammonia components: alcohols and alcohol solutions
Liquid ammonia always easily coped with scum, grease and old burn. Cleaning the oven at home with this method is quite simple:
- Liquid ammonia acts on old burnt fat. He doesn’t take fresh.
- The sponge is moistened in an alcohol solution (water and alcohol in a ratio of 1: 2) and the walls of the oven are wiped.
- Baking sheets should be treated with alcohol with water in a ratio of 1: 1.
- After 5-6 hours, burning and fat deposits are removed.
If there are spots a year ago, the procedure is repeated. Clean the surface of alcohol with hot water and soap. There are two separate methods that differ in cooking technology and the procedure itself.
Liquid ammonia: cold and hot methods
The cold method is as follows:
- Ammonia in its pure form is sprayed on the surface of the oven. Trays and racks are not removable.
- The solution is left overnight.
- In the morning, the oven is thoroughly washed with water.
Hot Method:
- The oven is heated to 70 degrees.
- On the top shelf put a glass with ammonia not diluted with alcohol.
- On the bottom shelf is a bowl with 60 ml of boiling water.
- Close the oven and leave everything for 6-8 hours.
These methods are suitable for cleaning the stove and oven in the summer, when at night you can open the windows and ventilate the room. It is advisable that households do not breathe vapor of alcohol. After the procedure, the oven is washed with soap and water, the room is ventilated. Sometimes, for better cleaning, a liquid cleaner (in a glass) is added to liquid ammonia. The mixture is washed with an oven and then cleaned with water from residues.
Household chemicals for other purposes: we make solutions on our own
In order not to spoil the surface of the oven with strong means of professional chemistry, but also not to fight for the fifth hour, wiping off the fat with soda, it is sometimes recommended to resort to tricks:
- So, there are good old-fashioned products in hardware stores: Pemolux, Comet, and dishwashing gels.
- Only weapons that are not intended for children's dishes will do. There is chlorine, and additives, and surfactants.
- Each "preparation" is mixed with citric acid.
- The mixture is applied only to the walls of the oven.
- After half an hour, everything is washed off and washed several times.
If there is a smell of detergent (chlorine), it is better to repeat the washing several times. Chlorine-containing components kill not only fats, but also enamel. A simple hand cream will help protect her. It is diluted (after cleaning) with water, applied to the walls of the oven and washed off with warm water.
Carbonic acid: how can it help?
Coal will save the oven from burning, but not from fat. If the walls of the road, treat them with lemon juice. It will protect the metal from corrosion of paint and surface.
So, carbonic acid is mixed with salt. Half a liter of water is added to the glass. They pour in (carefully) 1 kilogram of salt and 1 teaspoon of carbonic acid. The mixture is slightly heated on a stove (over low heat). Everything is placed on the bottom of the oven and heated further to 150 degrees.
After 40 minutes, the oven turns off. Cool it and you can start wiping surfaces. It is permissible to use any household product or professional chemistry for ovens.
How to mix components - against which each solution?
All housewives know that you can use not only salt, alcohol, soda separately, but also mix them for better effects on fats and soot. Some methods have been described, something is known to you:
- Soda and vinegar - the combination is more effective, especially for those surfaces that cannot be rubbed with abrasive elements.
- Lemon and water - fresh dirt is removed with a simple wipe. Old ones are best treated with a solution of powdered citric acid and water.
- Soda and baking powder: mix soda, baking powder and water in equal proportions, add lemon juice and treat old patches of fat.
- Salt and detergent: a mixture for those whose ovens are not washed the third time with simple cleaners. Mix the components and treat the walls of the oven.
- Ammonia ammonia is a nuclear component, and if mixed with soapy water, a mixture is obtained that can remove very old contaminants.
Now you know exactly how to clean the oven from grease and carbon deposits in a few hours, without putting a lot of effort.
How not to spoil the technique with cleaning?
So that after each such cleaning, the oven works properly:
- try to clean all the walls from visible pieces of food;
- disconnect it from power in advance;
- if there are lamps, unscrew them;
- fans are never sprayed;
- open heating elements must be completely cooled;
- grates should be pre-cleaned of adhering dirt.
If you follow simple safety rules, the oven will serve for at least another 5-7 years. Do not forget about safety: use gloves, glasses when working with household chemicals. It is not always possible to protect the eyes, the respiratory tract from harmful components.
Prevention of complex pollution
Do not be lazy to enable self-cleaning, if such a function is provided. It will not replace capital cleaning, but it will retain both the appearance and functionality of the unit. Just half an hour of heating, a glass of spent water, and the oven can be wiped clean with a paper towel, removing dirt and residual fresh fat.
Any deposits affect the taste of the food, the cooking process. heating elements suffer the most - open Z-shaped parts need to be cleaned constantly. The higher the cooking temperature, the more difficult it is to wipe away the frozen fat.
Burned foods can spoil the taste and smell of a new dish. Even if the walls of the oven are clean, the fan openings are cleaned, due to the effects of electric waves, food is not prepared as prescribed by the manufacturer. Also, do not neglect the function of heating, defrosting and heating the temperature. If the oven is working properly, make sure that its individual elements do not fail.
Then any cleaning will seem quick and easy. And the equipment will please you for more than a dozen years, even if the warranty has not been valid for a long time.