Recipe For Clean: Oven Cleaner

March 17, 2008

Is your oven crusty and gross? Does it send up a smoke signal every time you try to bake cookies? Then take your home cleaning kit and whip up a batch of natural oven cleaner. This easy Recipe For Clean will get your oven looking and smelling so fresh and so clean.

Supplies

1 cup or more baking soda
A few squirts of liquid detergent
Water

To find out the steps for this DIY, just read more

Sprinkle or spray a generous amount of water on the bottom of your oven.
Cover all of the gross baked-on bits on the bottom of your oven with baking soda until it's covered.
Sprinkle or spray more water on the top.
Let sit overnight, so it will loosen.
Use a sponge, with a squirt of liquid detergent on it, to clean up the mess.
Use a heavy-duty sponge with an abrasive surface for best results.

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10 Comments

dguillenm 4 years 1 week

i just put water and baking soda on the bottom of my oven and left over night.in the morning I used a scrub brush with water and a towel to clean up. It cleaned my oven with no fumes or harsh chemicals. I highly recommend.

techkim 4 years 8 weeks

This works SO well. When I moved out of my apartment I didn't want to use the oven cleaner because if the nasty smell. So I throw in some baking soda and used a water spray bottle with a little dawn dish soap and let it sit and it cleaned it perfect.

Marci 5 years 9 weeks

I keep waiting for someone to clean my oven, but for some reason that isn't happening. I'll have to crack down soon and do it myself, and I really want to try this because commercial oven cleaners are so overwhelming in their chemical content. My fiance can taste the cleaner in the food long after I cleaned, so those are now officially out of my life.