How Do You Clean A Whirlpool Self Cleaning Oven?
In Grandma’s time, oven cleaning was a chore worthy of the name, and dangerous, to boot. A dirty oven required lots of elbow grease, and lots of time. Commercial oven cleaners helped, but upped the danger factor because they dissolved grease and carbon with caustic chemicals, including fumes, that could chemically burn lung linings and skin. Then came self-cleaning ovens. Now it’s easy to take an oven from carbonized grease to sparkling cleanliness–while you do something else. All you have to do is prepare, let the oven super-heat, and wipe up afterwards. Remove everything from inside the oven that isn’t permanently affixed: racks, broiler pan and foil liner included. Clean by hand the outside inch or so of each wall, the floor, the sides and door edges, avoiding the gasket. Use the mildest cleaning solution your level of soil allows: plain water, dilute solution of water and dishwashing liquid, spray-on all-purpose household cleaner or household de-greasing spray. Clean the inside, s
