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Heavy Duty Oven Cleaning with Baking Soda
Let’s face it. Sometimes we don’t always make cleaning the oven a priority. Sometimes months, even years, can go by between oven cleanings. It happens. If your oven is in the heavily soiled category, you can still use baking soda to get it back to sparkling. Try this alternate recipe instead
⭐1 pound Baking Soda
⭐1 tablespoon salt (regular table salt is fine)
⭐2 tablespoons water
⭐Mix together in a bowl to make a thick, sandy paste, along the consistency of cake icing, adding additional water 1/2 tablespoon at a time if needed. This recipe will make enough to deep clean an oven floor. Triple the recipe if you are doing the back, sides, ceiling, and oven floor.
⭐Remove the racks from your oven. Using a spatula, cover the entire metal or glass surfaces with the paste. Shut the oven door and leave it overnight in the cold oven. The paste will harden by morning.
⭐Once the paste is hardened, use the rubber spatula and warm, wet paper towels to loosen and wipe up the baking soda and dirt. You’ll reveal the oven’s original, stain-free surface underneath and your oven will have gone through an extreme makeover.
Cleaning Your Oven with Baking Soda and Vinegar
⭐You can also use vinegar in a spray bottle to help baking soda get the job done and to be sure you’ve removed all baking soda after cleaning. Here’s a quick oven-cleaning with baking soda shortcut you can use immediately after you have a spill in your oven.
⭐Sprinkle baking soda liberally over the stain.
⭐Spritz with water, or a 3:1 water to white vinegar solution. If you use vinegar, baking soda will bubble.
⭐Let sit for 15-20 minutes, after your oven has cooled.
⭐Wipe up baking soda and dissolved food with wet paper towels.
⭐Wipe the entire oven interior with a 3:1 water to vinegar solution.
⭐Be satisfied at a job well done.
⭐“Self-Clean” Your Oven with Baking Soda
⭐The next time your oven needs cleaning and you feel the urge to turn on its self-clean cycle, resist! Self-clean cycles often produce horrendous odors and in many cases set off your fire alarm. They work by turning up the oven’s temperature so high that the food will burn off, but that isn’t always effective – and in some cases bakes the food on even further.
Baking Soda and know that the power of science is at your fingertips. Without harsh fumes that can make you dizzy, without caustic chemicals, and without smelling up your home or putting your oven out of commission for hours, you can have a clean oven in as little as 15 minutes. Let baking soda break down your food stains for you, and all you have to do is wipe it away.
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