We all use oven in our daily life from breakfast to dinner, during this we take lot of work from oven Everyone even machine need clean-up after some time of interval, same as oven needs to be clean.
Now, the main point on which you are wondering about how or with which things we can clean oven. We don’t want to clean oven with some kind of chemicals or any other harmful material. So, there’s a solution for us that is fortunately baking Soda which is known as hero for cleaning kitchen materials. And using this baking soda with vinegar you can clean your oven naturally and with safe method.
Here in this article, we are going to discuss complete step by step details how we can clean oven with baking soda. You can say baking soda in another words as baking powder too.
Before we start steps, let’s we discuss some common questions which are important for cleaning our oven.
How Often we can clean our oven?
The right answer depends on the usage of our oven. Let’s answer this with an example if I use a oven on daily basis and overall usage is more than a normal usage then I will clean my oven within three months.
Same as if you are using oven sometimes not on regular basis then I will recommend to clean oven after at least six months. But it can be once at every year depending on the usage of your oven.
If you see something dropping to the bottom, feel smell of smoke or any other things like that then just wait the oven get cool down and start cleaning.
Should I use Gloves to Clean oven?
Yeah, surely for your safety you should wear gloves to clean oven. If you have already gloves then that better otherwise you can find soft material gloves which can be quickly dry.
How to clean oven in a best way from inside?
This is the hard one step in my opinion because inside the oven you do not have access to all areas and can’t reach there to clean it. But there is no doubt a dirty interior can make smell on your food or may produce toxic gas.
We will cover this in details but as a starter you can clean oven areas which interact with your food and can easily reach those areas.
By cleaning these areas, you will have a safe and fresh food smell and there will be nothing toxic or any harmful food chance for you.
How much time required to clean oven?
There’s lot of quick solution available on internet which you will find but the required time to clean oven with baking soda properly takes 13-15 hours. It is because when you will use baking soda to your oven then it will take at least 12+ hours to clean oil residue/ grime buildup.
As it’s taking up much time to clean, so my recommendation for you do not start cleaning your oven just before your dinner or baking cake. You can simply start cleaning oven after your dinner and baking soda will continue to work while you sleeping with a sweet dream.
Steps to Clean Oven:
First of all, you need some few things to clean oven with baking soda which mentioned below:
- Baking Soda
- Water
- Rubber Gloves
- White Vinegar
- Cleaning Rag or Plate
- And Spay Bottle
Make Oven Empty:
In this step, remove your oven rack, pans, thermometer, pizza stone or anything else which you are using inside your oven. You can keep these things on a paper or old newspaper because if you keep it on floor or any other material like over the kitchen cabinet then it can make it dirty.
Make Baking Soda Paste:
After making oven empty, you need to make baking soda paste for cleaning. You can take half cup of baking soda and water as ingredients and start mixing till it gives your spreadable paste. If you required more soda then you can take more than half cup depending on your needs.
Apply Soda Paste:
Now you can start coating of soda paste to inside the oven. For this job don’t go with gloveless hands as dirt can go into your nails and this is a dirty job also. Continue spreading soda paste until all area are fill up with paste. If in some areas you see paste is thick or less then don’t worry it will take time to spread in those spaces.
When it will contact with residue or oil then the soda paste slowly will get started to turn into brown color which is indication of that paste start working.
Give Some Time to Paste:
After applying paste inside the oven now it’s time to wait at least 12 hours so paste can work completely and clean our oven.
Clean Oven Racks:
The best way to clean oven racks to keep these racks into a hot water for a while. After a duration of time like 1-2 hours you can easily clean oven racks and for this purpose you can use your bathtub. But if in case of your racks are extra dirty then keep some kind of cloth on the bottom of racks just to prevent your bathtub from becoming dirty.
Remove Paste:
Now after 12 hours its time to remove soda paste which we used on oven. To remove this, you can use a soft cloth and clean all inside the interior of oven. This will clean all residue of oven and will make it like a fresh new oven from inside.
Add Vinegar:
After cleaning soda paste, now for more better cleaning we will spray little bit vinegar through spray bottle. Actually, vinegar is very important for cleaning as it will make left behind soda paste or residue to loosen the oven interior.
Clean Oven Glass:
Your oven will look like dirty if you not pay attention towards cleaning of oven glass. For this cleaning you can paste soda on glass of oven. But now just keep it for 30-40 minutes and after that just clean it like as mentioned in above steps with the help of cloth.
Conclusion:
We have discussed about cleaning oven from baking soda because of baking soda is a natural cleaning agent without any harmful cleaning. We need to make soda paste and apply inside the oven for at least 12 hours. The best time for this is after dinner when you not have to use oven over a night. After that duration of time clean it with towel or cloth and for cleaning racks use hot water. After removing all soda paste you can apply vinegar then on inside oven to remove completely soda paste and any other residue if left behind. In this way you can clean your oven with baking soda. We hope this article helps you to clean your oven.
