How to clean the oven at home from carbon deposits and grease?

Cooking delicious dishes in the oven, varied, according to complex recipes and simple, fashionable. It used to be harder to cook, as it took more time and not everything worked out. Now we have convenient equipment at our disposal. It is easy to grind food thanks to a blender, whip cream thanks to a mixer, squeeze juice with a juicer. You can calculate the cooking time, the temperature is very accurate, because modern ovens are equipped with a temperature and time timer. But how do you clean the carbon and grease in the oven? It is not always convenient to wash this technique.

It is especially difficult in the case of an oven. After a feast, of course, you don't want to wash it, but in the morning you won't be able to wash it. Fat sticks tightly to the walls. It can be compared to concrete mortar. It seems that the problem can be solved only with a hammer and chisel or hydrochloric acid, a jackhammer, with which the walls are cleared of plaster. In fact, this is not the case. It is not advisable to wash the surface with a scraper for dishes - it is delicate, it is easy to scratch it. After a while, rust will appear, corrosion will destroy the oven.

How to cleanse it of burnt fat, carbon deposits? This should not take a lot of time, otherwise the love of cooking delicious, varied food, having awakened only thanks to the efforts of designers, scientific and technological progress, inventions, can disappear.

Cleaning the oven with folk remedies at home 

Folk remedies, unlike traditional ones, always help. They are not so expensive, they are always at hand, they are sold in any store. Moreover, their composition is not suspicious.

If you rinse off a classic, powerful detergent without thoroughly, what happens? During the next preparation of a meal, it can dry out, a thin coating will crumble into pots, pans, on a baking sheet. This is frightening, and only by comparing the effectiveness of folk remedies with the effectiveness of traditional means for the oven, you can make an informed, deliberate decision, choose the best option for yourself.

Of course, you can thoroughly wash off household chemicals. But you will have to spend more time, and the water meter will wind up a lot of revolutions. Utility bills will be reflected in the budget. In order to avoid this, it is necessary to proceed without delay to check the effectiveness of folk remedies.

Using citric acid for burning and soot

Citric acid is a traditional remedy. It has incredible destructive power, copes with scale, plaque, and even grease in the oven. Previously, it was made from lemon juice, makhorka. Over time, the process was made cheaper: it turned out that fungi of the genus Aspergill are capable of producing molasses by eating molasses. More precisely, glucose is first oxidized, turns into provinograd acid, after a while - into citric acid. A complex chemical reaction allows you to get citric acid practically without doing anything. Therefore, the price is always low for it.

Citric acid is needed in the kitchen to prepare delicious meals. It contains vitamins and is good for health. It is necessary for the kettle to sparkle and shine, the oven was always quickly washed.

One of its properties is to reduce adhesion. It is necessary to dissolve the granules in a small amount of water, in a ratio of 1 to 10, treat the oven with this solution, leave for 5-10 minutes. Grease and carbon deposits can be easily removed. It is better to do all this with gloves: citric acid corrodes, burns. The consequences of careless handling of its concentrated solution can lead to disastrous consequences.

Cleaning stubborn dirt with table vinegar

Vinegar is a dangerous substance that can burn, just like citric acid solution. Table vinegar, however, should be distinguished from vinegar essence. Essence is an 80% solution. In cooking, 6% and 9% are used.

It is dangerous to work with vinegar in any case - you cannot inhale its vapors for a long time. They burn the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, although a person may not even notice this.

It is important to take precautions even when canning vegetables. What can we say about cleaning the oven. Vinegar poisoning is a real threat. But this method is effective and worthy of attention. You should ventilate the room while working, wear gloves, you can even use a respirator mask or use a spray bottle.

Clean the oven as follows:

1. Apply undiluted table vinegar to fat, carbon deposits:
2. Leave for 1-2 hours, re-moisten with vinegar;
3. After another 1-2 hours, all impurities are removed.

 They will easily chip off, because the acid will destroy their structure and change the adhesion indicators. This is a really effective way. The main thing is to remember about the risk of chemical burns, vinegar and vinegar fumes.

The effect of laundry soap on frozen fat

Laundry soap is inexpensive. It is used to solve a variety of everyday problems. Perhaps, in every house there are always 2-3 pieces in stock. Unlike conventional detergents, it has a simple composition, only a few components are used. The effect of its use is the same as in the case of expensive multicomponent products.

The disadvantage of this method is that after removing the fat, you will have to thoroughly wipe the surface again, completely rinse off the remnants of chemicals. You will also need to get rid of the smell. To do this, leave the oven open for 5-6 hours. However, even in the case when the oven is washed with classic detergents, a smell may remain that will ruin the dishes or meal at the most inopportune moment. It is advisable in this case to leave the oven door open for 5-6 hours.

Laundry soap contains alkalis, and they will eliminate the pollution. It is necessary to dissolve half a piece in a little water. Then - put this soapy solution in a refractory dish into the oven, turn it on, set the timer at 150 degrees and cook for 30-40 minutes without covering it with a lid. The task is to steam the fat layer, soak it with soap vapor. After half an hour, you need to turn off the oven, let it cool down and remove any dirt. This will be very easy to do.

The use of table salt

Everyone knows that if you sprinkle salt on ice, it will melt. But not everyone knows that salt can help remove grease and carbon deposits in the oven. Salt, meanwhile, has the ability to coke, and fat - to absorb. You just need to dissolve it in water, put it in a heat-resistant dish in the oven, turn it on, bring to a boil without covering it with a lid. You can turn off the oven after 30 minutes. When it cools down, you can remove the layer of fat. It was saturated with brine, a chemical reaction began, as a result of which its structure changed.

How ammonia and hydrogen peroxide fight carbon deposits

Ammonia, or ammonia solution, is needed to help a person who has lost consciousness due to heat, smoke poisoning, or for some other reason. It is used to clean the contacts in electrical appliances, add to the water for flowers as a bait, fertilizer. They can also clean the oven from soot, grease - apply it and leave for 8 hours.

Since ammonia is a highly volatile material, a water bath can be made. But in this case, the consumption of ammonia may increase. The oven is first heated to 60-80 degrees, then a container with freshly boiled water is placed on the lower baking sheet, and a container with ammonia is placed on the upper baking sheet. Then the oven is turned off. After 8 hours, the fat can be safely eliminated.

An easy, effective and fast way - steam cleaning

The steam alone can help clean the oven. You don't need anything at all except water. However, this time we are not talking about a steam bath. It itself is not as effective as we would like it to be. It is good if there is a steam cleaner. With its help, it is easy to remove any contamination. If it's not there, maybe it's time to spend on it. It is inexpensive, and when you use it, the oven will be clean in a few minutes.

Cleaning with baking powder

Every person who cooks, loves baking, knows that the simplest dough composition is flour mixed with water. But cookies prepared according to this recipe cannot be chewed, they will be hard like cement. Baking powder for dough, yeast or margarine, sour cream solves this problem.

Yeast is just a fungus. Margarine, sour cream contain animal proteins. But the baking powder for the dough is citric acid, and soda, and starch. If you dissolve and loosen for dough in water, wipe the walls of the oven with this solution, after a few hours fat, soot, carbon deposits can be easily removed. The structure of the hard layer, which, it would seem, can not be removed by anything, will change as if by magic.

We clean with baking soda

Baking soda is also familiar to all baking lovers. It is quenched with vinegar and added as a baking powder. If you mix it with a small amount of water, prepare a paste, apply it to the walls of the oven, after 12 hours it will be possible to easily remove dirt.

Household cleaning

 Modern oven detergents are a quick fix. There are, of course, both effective and not so effective. It is, however, difficult to make a mistake when choosing. Those that are inexpensive are likely to be poorly laundered. If the price is average and above average, it will be easier to clean the oven. The exception is new trademarks, the price of which can be significantly reduced by manufacturers to increase sales. When it becomes clear that the product is for sale, the value may rise to real value.

Means such as "Cif", "Help" sometimes do not completely cope with dirt. But they can be applied to the surface, leave for 20 minutes to act, then rinse. Means of "Amway" are also familiar to many. They are effective, safe and economical.

Self-cleaning systems for electric ovens

 Recently, the design of ovens has been improved - a self-cleaning function has appeared. No new mechanisms were added, the electronic components remained the same. The inner surface was made of materials with special properties. Some can absorb fats, then break them down. In this case, the broiler is supplemented with a catalytic self-cleaning system. Other materials must be heated, the oven switched on - this is a pyrolytic system.

If you are tired of constantly washing the oven, you can buy a new one. The self-cleaning system will help you tune in to creativity, the creation of culinary masterpieces.

How to get rid of the smell of the oven?

 It so happens that it was possible to wash off the soot and fat, but the smell remained. What to do in this case? Wipe the surfaces with vinegar. Salt also has the ability to absorb odors. The oven must be turned on, put some salt on a baking sheet and fry it. The bad smell will disappear completely.

Video: how to clean the oven and keep it clean

Traditional methods will help even when a proven, favorite detergent is over, and you don't want to go to the store. Surely there will be vinegar, soda, salt in the kitchen. You should use them, you will definitely like the result.