How to clean your oven with natural products

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN NATURALLY

The best natural remedies for cleaning and degreasing your oven are four: vinegar , baking soda, lemon , and salt. Never leave them out of your kitchen for this specific purpose. Of course, as you'll see by reading our tips, there are other natural products you can add for this type of household cleaning. They're much more effective than any commercial cleaner, and a dirty oven can even alter the flavor of your dishes.

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HOW TO DEGREASE THE OVEN

When we say that we need to “ degrease the oven ”, we mean the cleaning necessary to remove encrustations and food residues that can cause bad odors and irreparably ruin the appliance.

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HOW TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN WITH BICARBONATE

But let's see how to use, very simply and effectively, the four ingredients that form the basis of a natural oven cleaning.

• To clean the oven daily, get a spray bottle and pour in 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 2 of Marseille soap liquid, 10 drops of sweet orange (or lemon) essential oil, and half a cup of hot water. Then, preheat the oven to 120°C (250°F) for 15 minutes, then turn it off and leave the door open. Spray the oven walls with your liquid and let it sit for about twenty minutes. Finally, rinse thoroughly.
• If you need to remove some difficult encrustationsTake a bowl and add half a cup of salt, half a cup of baking soda or borax, 500 grams of baking soda, and finally a scant quarter of a cup of water. Mix everything together, then preheat the oven to 120°C (250°F), removing the racks, and let it heat for 15 minutes. Then turn off the oven and open the door. Then, using a cloth, spread the paste on the oven walls and let it sit for twenty minutes. In a spray bottle, add 3/4 cup of white wine vinegar, 10 drops of thyme essential oil, and 10 drops of lemon essential oil. Spray the oven walls and clean them. Then rinse thoroughly. Scrub with a steel wool pad if the caked-on cake is hard to remove.
• for heavier cleaning, do this. Get 1 cup of water (measure), 10 drops of sweet orange essential oil (or lemon and rosemary), half a cup of salt (measure), 1 and a quarter cups of sodium bicarbonate (measure), 2 teaspoons liquid Marseille soap, 1/4 cup vinegar. Cover the oven vents with aluminum foil, then preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C) and leave for 15 minutes. Then, turn off the oven and open the door. Pour 1/4 cup water and sweet orange essential oil into a spray bottle and shake. Spray the liquid onto the bottom and sides of the oven. Then combine 1/4 cup salt with 1/2 cup baking soda and sprinkle the powder over the bottom, paying particular attention to stubborn stains. Then mix 1/4 cup water with the remaining 3/4 cup baking soda, 1/4 cup salt, and the Marseille soap. Then spread the mixture over the oven vents. Remove the aluminum foil from the vents and let the mixture sit overnight. In the morning, pour the remaining half cup of water and vinegar into a clean spray bottle and spray the oven walls and bottom. Clean thoroughly with a steel wool pad and then rinse.

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN WITH COCA-COLA

• If the problem is the baking traysClean them with the leftover Coca-Cola. Its acidic component, in fact, dissolves both burn marks and stubborn stains. Pour a generous amount of Coca-Cola on the cold baking tray, especially on the spots Then place it in the oven, turned on to maximum heat. When the steam rises, turn off the oven and remove the pan. Clean the stain with a soft brush and you're done.
• The oven can also be cleaned with the dish soapHomemade with Marseille soap dissolved in water. Sprinkle the oven with soap, let it sit for 30 minutes, and then rinse. You can also use the same detergent to clean the oven window. Simply add a little baking soda to the detergent and cover the entire window with the mixture. After half an hour, rinse with a sponge and use a spatula to remove stubborn stains.

HOW TO CLEAN THE OVEN WITH Tinfoil

Aluminum foil is a simple, inexpensive, and very effective material for deep cleaning your oven.

Necessary

• one meter of aluminum foil for food
• 1/2 glass of white wine vinegar

Method

• Take away the oven shelves, roughly crumple up a sheet of aluminum foil and rub it all over, including the racks, paying particular attention to critical areas such as the corners and the grease-splattered door.
• Pass a sponge soaked in vinegar to remove grease and food residue.
• Rearranged clean grids in their place.

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN WITH SALT AND VINEGAR

Even the salt and vinegar mixture , another completely natural remedy, is very effective for cleaning the oven.

Necessary

• 1/2 liter of white wine vinegar
• a glass of fine salt

Method

• Fate a mixture of fine salt and vinegar White wine, place it on a clean sponge and rub over the entire surface.
• Let act for a few minutes.
• Clean With a damp cloth, remove any residue. The salt also helps absorb any liquids that may have spilled into the oven during cooking and then remove them.

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN QUICKLY

• Take three lemons and pour them into a container with half a liter of water.
• Place the container in the oven, then turn it on to a temperature between 150 and 180 degrees.
• After twenty minutes, turn off the oven.
• Wet a cloth in the water solution and Lemon; and pass it over the inside walls of the oven.
• Rinse with plenty of water.

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