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[Nataliesgramma]

I am careful when I use the oven and it never really gets 'dirty'. I have used the clean cycyle twice now and I won't be using it a third. First of all, how hot it gets, scares me and second of all, I am getting a 'film' on my white cupboards around it after the cycle is done.

If you have one, do you use that feature?

[Bellabutterfly]

Nataliesgramma, I have a built in double oven.  I use the self cleaning feature and have never had this problem regarding "A film on my cabnets". The oven does get extremely hot when the self cleaning feature is in use.  When it is on and cleaning, I alway turn on my hood vent above my stove and open the kitchen window 1/2 inch.

Hope this helps...

[ID2]

Years ago when I moved into our brand new neighborhood (all new houses) my neighbor asked me if I used the self cleaner in my oven yet. She said that her cabinets around it melted!! Huh?? Whenever I would use my cleaner I always opened a window, turned on the vent fan AND set an oscillating fan on the floor blowing on it.

[qualitygal]

I do but only in the dead of winter (not that often) to let it help heat the house.

Did just have my husband move it and the fridge out so that I could clean under them. I think that's important to do too.

[shaggygirl]

Check your instruction booklet and see if it gives you options on how to set it for a variety of cleaning times. I always opt for the lowest which is 2 hours and that's plenty of time to do the job. Plus I can hit the cancel button at any time to shut it down, maybe you can do the same if you start feeling uncomfortable about all that heat until you find what works for you. Never had any issues with the adjoining cabinets.

[PINKdogWOOD]

@qualitygal Good idea Ms QualGal to do this in the winter to warm up the house.  I never thought about this.  I do love my self-cleaner though because I HATE cleaning the oven with those toxic sprays trying to lean into the oven to attempt to reach the back of it.

I clean mine once for sure a year maybe twice, depending on how dirty it gets of course.  I also have three timed settings to run it again depending on how dirty it is.  Usually I'll time it for 2 hours.  I only get the white powdery ashes inside my oven after the process is over.  I just use a couple of damp paper towels to wipe it out.  Kind of hard for me to reach way into it but I make it work.  Love the clean oven afterwards.

Don't know if this happens to any of you but what really bugs me is the dust and yes I'll put it out there, dogs hair that get between the 2 pains of glass on the door.  How this happens I have no idea but it certainly makes my oven still dirty.  There's no easy fix for this.  I hate how it looks.  Do any of you find this happens to you?  How do you handle it?

[151949]

I am careful to put a cookie sheet under anything I put in the oven in case of spill overs so I manage to get away with cleaning it about once a year. I choose some evening when it is predicted to be cool outside and we would normally need the furnace on and instead I clean the oven. In my open concept, Florida home, that is usually all the heat we would need that night, so the electric used does double duty.

[StylishLady]

I used that on my oven and I had a fire burning inside. Scared the living daylights out of me. Had a technician disable the feature. I'll clean mine out by hand, thank you. 

[shaggygirl]

I don't have pets so no issue with that, however, a couple of years ago, I have no idea how, when baking lasagna a long drip of tomato sauce got between my two glass panels. Tried all the suggestions I found googling except for having someone come and take the stupid door apart, clean it and put it back together. I even ordered long handled skinny brushes and tried every which way to get in there with no luck. It made me nutsy everytime I saw it. So, my solution, I hung a dish drying towel over the oven handle and have it clipped, those tiny hair clips with teeth, on the sides of it right under the handle on so it doesn't slide off or left and right while opening and closing the oven door so now I don't have to see it and what I don't see doesn't bother me. In some store or other I saw pot holders that you can hang on your oven door and the have a snap tab to hold them on that were pretty lengthy, enough to hang long enough that it would cover mine, next time I see them I'm going pick one up.

[panda1234]

Used the self cleaning for the first time on a new oven. Oven would not work the next time I wanted to bake. Repair man who came told me it is best to clean the oven myself. He saw ovens that would not work after using this feature. Had to buy a new oven.