Natural Cleaning Solutions – For the Oven

For the most part, I’ve tried to switch to earth-friendlier cleaners that you can find in stores. My favorite thus far is the Method brand. I’ve also read and heard a lot the cleaning powers of vinegar and baking soda. So here I go, giving them a try for Natural Cleaning Solutions – For the Oven.

Today I cleaned my oven using just baking soda, vinegar, sponge and a little scrubbing. I can’t believe just how well it worked! Sorry I don’t have a “before” pic but take it from me, my oven was a MESS after a bad spilling-over a couple weeks ago. It’s been stinky ever since, so you know it was a bad one! And yippee to no more toxic chemicals or nasty self-cleaning oven burning stench.

I originally found this trick on Listotic’s 55 Must-Read Cleaning Tips and Tricks post. This lead me to the “instructable” Cleaning Your Oven Without Poisonous Earth-Destroying Chemicals which shows you how to clean your oven.

Definitely put the vinegar in a sprayer – makes life SO much easier. But get a GOOD sprayer, not this crappy one I got at Harris Teeter that barely sprays. Good thing it was just vinegar dripping down my hand and not some bleach concoction! I sprinkled a generous helping of baking soda on the bottom of my oven and sprayed it with vinegar. That wouldn’t work for the walls so I made a vinegar/baking soda paste to smear on the walls.

And then to my amazement, I was able to scrub minimally to get that yucky burned stuff off. The hardest part was the repeated rinsing but even that wasn’t too bad. I filled a glass bowl with water and used it for the rinse/repeat step and reduced the number of trips to and from the sink. Be sure to rinse well because if you don’t, the first time you bake something, the residue will crust over a little. If this happens, just give your oven another wipe down after it’s cool. One thing I did notice was that this didn’t seem to work to well on the glass/window. I’ll need to look for another solution for that!

Tada!! I can’t wait until the next time something boils over so I can do this again.

Now that I’m a believer, I’m going to start trying out other natural cleaning solutions and will be sure to let you know all about them – only the ones that work, of course!

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