Friday, July 23, 2010

Can You Cook With the Oven
Between Sprays
of the Oven Cleaning Solution?

 
Just got an email from someone
who read the oven cleaning article
I wrote. Here's the email:


I like your recommendation for cleaning
the oven; mine is extremely dirty  
with baked on grease and other stuff.  
My question is:  can I actually  cook
in the oven between sprays?  I like
the idea that it's not toxic and and I'm
eager to try this process.  Thank you.


Baking soda is quite safe. It does not
emit fumes or anything like that in my
experience.

The only problem comes when you spray
it on to a hot oven surface. You should
never do that. If you do, water turns
to steam and the baking soda goes airborne
to some degree. This has been my experience
in the past.

Taking baking soda internally does not seem
to be a problem. I've known people who have
taken it in quantity to reduce stomach acidity.
Not that I'm recommending this. I'm just saying
that if a little gets in your food it is no big
deal.

In the past, people have also used baking soda
to brush their teeth. Again, not a recommendation,
just a fact.

Currently there are toothpaste products on the
market that contain baking soda. Also, baking
soda is an ingredient is some baking powders
that go into cakes and cornbread recipes. If
you can bake with it, surely you can put it on
the walls of your oven safely and not worry about
it getting into your food.

You should be quite safe if you cook with the
oven between sprays. Just be careful that you
spray when the oven is completely and totally
cooled off.

Ed Abbott

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Cloudy Film on Oven Walls
After Oven Cleaning

 
Just received this email:


Help! A housesitter was doing some
home sitting for us while we were
out of town.  She had used our oven,
made a mess and wanted to take care of
it.  

She said she cleans hers by spraying
commercial oven cleaner on, THEN
turning on the self cleaning cycle and
it works like a charm.  Well, my oven
doesn't look so charming anymore. I
believe the self cleaning baked the
commercial oven cleaner into the
walls of my oven and now has a cloudy
film over everything.

After she left I tried using the commercial
oven cleaner the way the directions said
and its not getting any better.  We even
left it over night.  I tried vinegar and
water, baking soda and nothing is getting
the cloudy mess off.  I'm not sure if the
self cleaning would make the fogginess
worse or better, so I haven't tried
that yet.  Any ideas on what to do??

Thanks for your time,


Here's some information from the Easy Off
Oven Cleaning website. Note that they say
avoid using their Heavy Duty Oven
Cleaner on self-cleaning ovens
:


Can EASY-OFF® Heavy Duty Oven Cleaner be
used on continuous or self-cleaning ovens?


Note that they also have a product that
they say is safe for self-cleaning ovens:

EASY-OFF® Fume Free Oven Cleaner

Could this product help you? I have no
idea.

Here's their Contact Us page:

Easy Off Contact Us

If it were me, I'd call their 800 number.
I'd ask if they have a product that will
work in this situation.

Best Wishes!

Ed Abbott