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[Mom2Dogs]

I have the same style oven...heating element in the bottom.  I generally use the self clean option...on days when the windows can be open, but I have also used easy off oven cleaner...so far no issues.  

I don't use it often, but do use it.

[chrystaltree]

Last year my sister's homemaker ruined her self cleaning oven by using oven cleaner and scouring it.  They had to give her a new stove.

[ValuSkr]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

Last year my sister's homemaker ruined her self cleaning oven by using oven cleaner and scouring it.  They had to give her a new stove.

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Bad news: We ruined your oven.  Good news: We'll get you a new one.  

[sunshine45]

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@CatsyCline wrote:

my oven has a steam-clean setting.  careful to keep spills from setting and bake in. olive oil is a PAIN.

have run the self-clean once and it STINKS even when windows are all open. 

the racks are a pain to clean and you cannot leave them in for self-clean.

long ago i used Easy-Off but after a chemical burn on my ankle never again!  and the fumes smell so bad when burning off.

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@CatsyCline 

i use my self clean feature every other month or so. i do have the steam clean feature but i have never used it. is it more for light cleaning?

[SilleeMee]

I thought it was not good to use cleaners on self-cleaning ovens b/c you can ruin the finish on the walls of the oven. My friend used oven cleaner on her self-cleaning oven and it never looked the same after that, even after she used the self-cleaning mode. It just looked dirty all of the time b/c of that oven cleaner she used on it made it that way.

[Sage04]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I thought it was not good to use cleaners on self-cleaning ovens b/c you can ruin the finish on the walls of the oven. My friend used oven cleaner on her self-cleaning oven and it never looked the same after that, even after she used the self-cleaning mode. It just looked dirty all of the time b/c of that oven cleaner she used on it made it that way.

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@SilleeMee  I'm surprised your friend did that. That's a no no. Flip the switch and leave it alone. Sometimes all you have when it's done is wipe it out with a rag.

[SilleeMee]

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@Sage04 wrote:

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I thought it was not good to use cleaners on self-cleaning ovens b/c you can ruin the finish on the walls of the oven. My friend used oven cleaner on her self-cleaning oven and it never looked the same after that, even after she used the self-cleaning mode. It just looked dirty all of the time b/c of that oven cleaner she used on it made it that way.

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@SilleeMee  I'm surprised your friend did that. That's a no no. Flip the switch and leave it alone. Sometimes all you have when it's done is wipe it out with a rag.

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@Sage04 

That was her very first self-clean oven she ever owned and she always had gas ones before that. She didn't read the directions and no one was there that knew anything about the oven to ask. That was my ex MIL. I never heard the end of it...lol! Every time we were there for dinner...the same story was told, like a broken record!

[Sage04]

I don't understand why anyone thinks that a self cleaning oven "needs help". It's self cleaning. It usually takes about 4 hours. Leave it and let it clean. I love it.

Once I tried to tell the housekeeper that "it's self cleaning" and she kept saying she will clean the oven. After not getting through to her I took some masking take and taped the door shut.

[Lucky Charm]

I'm being honest here, I hated the self cleaning oven option.

First of all, I had my inlaws for a nice dinner, had London Broil in the oven (broiler was in the oven, not below).  Accidently hit the oven clean button and the door locked and I almost pulled the oven away from the wall trying to get it to release.

After that I was petrified of the oven cleaning option.  

So the house we just sold last fall, I actually bought a new oven because mine looked awful from not cleaning it up after spills, etc.  And I've never used the self cleaning option because of the London Broil fiasco.

This house, my oven is pristine.  And I love to cook.  But I do most of my cooking using our outside oven (which is a hot mess, tbh).  I'll never let my kitchen oven get that messy again.

[Sage04]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

Last year my sister's homemaker ruined her self cleaning oven by using oven cleaner and scouring it.  They had to give her a new stove.

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@chrystaltree  did your sister tell her it was self cleaning? I told my housekeeper and she looked at me like I was crazy.