Effortless Natural Oven Cleaning

bakingsoda Effortless Natural Oven Cleaning This particular tip is one of my favorites as it is so easy, cheap and natural!

If you are like me, your oven occasionally (or once a week in my case) gets burned on food on the bottom, splattered food on the sides, or dried food stuck on the rack. I am not fortunate to have a self-cleaning oven as some do, so I had to find a way to solve this problem. I checked oven cleaners at the store, and definitely did not want those ingredients in my oven around the food I was cooking for my family. I tried a variety of natural treatments before stumbling on the best oven cleaner, natural or not, that I have ever found: baking soda!

Though it seems like a simple fix, baking soda is really effective and makes the daunting task of oven cleaning a little easier. All I have to do to get a shining oven is spray the whole oven down with a water bottle so that it is damp, and pour on a thick layer or baking soda, especially on the bottom, until there is about 1/4 inch layer of baking soda paste on the bottom. If any of the baking soda is still dry, I mist it with the water bottle.

Then, I walk away, and leave the baking soda there for a few hours (with the oven off, unless you want to see some amateur special effects… I don’t recommend this!) After a few hours I simply wipe up the paste with a cloth and all the grime comes with it. For really baked on grime, this may take a couple applications, but it always works and it is 100% natural!

Hope you have a healthy week!

Some of my other natural cleaning ideas  here!

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  • http://www.homecleaninglondon.co.uk house cleaning

    Wonderful recipe and tip for oven cleaning.
    I use baking soda paste for cleaning all kinds of stains in my whole kitchen, no only in the oven. I love how it works on baked-on grease. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000210427531 Danielle Garcia

    I DID THIS!!! It worked wonderfully!  I had a disaster of an oven–literally–thick, burned drippings on the bottom of my oven and now it’s smooth and clean.  I am sooo glad that I could do it without toxic chemicals!! thank you for this!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    you’re welcome :-) Thanks for reading!

  • Sara

    Trying it right now…It is so bad every time I open the oven door the smoke detector was going off. I tried a fume free oven cleaner and it didn’t solve the problem not to mention smelled awful, so much for the fume free.