Last weekend, hubby and I decided it was time for a little cleaning spree (again!). Either I’m totally nesting (and it’s way too early for that), or I’m becoming slightly neurotic because I keep asking hubby to help me clean or organize something!
So, this week we decided it was time to clean the oven. Now, if you would have asked me a few years ago how I was going to clean the oven, I would have told you that I (or my husband) was going to don a mask and gloves and attack it with deadly oven cleaner. Have you smelled oven cleaner? It’s awful and apparently toxic. And getting down on my hands and knees to scrub our new oven is not really an option for me at 6 1/2 months pregnant. Thankfully, our Frigidaire Gallery Range
comes built with a self-cleaning function. Self-clean? Yes…That was my question too!
Basically, an oven that cleans itself, uses very high temperatures, which eliminate soils completely or reduces them to a fine powdered ash so they can be wiped away with a damp cloth. The range we are reviewing has 3 different self-cleaning cycles, depending on how dirty it is. We try not to let foods that are cooking drip (we use baking sheets if we think that is going to be an issue) so we set the timer for the 3-hour clean (you can also set a 2 or 4 hour-clean for light or heavy-duty cleaning). I like that I didn’t have to do anything to prepare the oven to clean itself. In other words, it truly is a self-cleaning oven. And because it wasn’t heavily soiled, I didn’t have to wipe away any residue.
One of the things I will mention is that when the oven is in it’s self-cleaning mode, there is an odor. It smells like something is burning or cooking. It’s not terrible, but it was enough that I decided to go upstairs and open some windows for ventilation. When I woke up in the morning (we had set this to clean after dinner one night), the smell was gone. I’ll most likely be setting our oven to clean while we’re away.
Because the oven is hot…really really hot, it locks itself (I really appreciate that aspect). The manual has numerous precautions that should definitely be read up on, prior to using the self-clean option (like how to remove spills, what not to use on and inside the oven, what should be removed before cleaning, etc.).
So what about the top of the range? Well….that’s easy. Just remove the grates and clean with soap and water (or an approved cleaning agent).
Because Frigidaire’s Gallery line is all about how to save YOU time, I thought this feature was well worth making mention of. How long does it take you to clean an oven? Well, that’s how much time you now have to read, spend a little more time with your family or my favorite…sleep!
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“I’ll most likely be setting our oven to clean while we’re away.”
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Please don’t do that…that is how house fires start. We you leave the house you shouldn’t have anything on the generates high heat. Perhaps a slow cooker…provided the wiring is in good condition. But anything you leave on is a potential risk that you may come home to find your in cinders. Years ago I worked for Allstate insurance as an adjuster and you would be surprised at some of the things that can bring down your home. And speaking from experience fire insurance never comes close to replacing what you lose. We have a fire here in the neighborhood earlier this year because a young boy left a lamp on when he went to school and had set the lamp on the floor. It caught fire and not only burnt his room but burnt through the floor into the floor level beneath it. If a lamp can do that…imagine a stove on high heat.
Sorry for the typos…been up all night with coughing cruds and I really should be in bed but the meds to help me are keeping me to wired to sleep.
I’d love to have a nice oven like yours! I love our new house, but the one major drawback is oven. It’s an apartment size gas range, circa 1950! It takes twice as long to cook as it should and it only lights when it wants to, and other times…not so much. I’ve gotten really good at lighting pilot lights! Needless to say, we’re in the market for a new oven! I’ll have to keep Frigidaire in mind!