I have a new Samsung gas range. Since it is self cleaning, they say not to use chemicals to clean it. I would like to use Easy Off on the floor of the oven. Opinions?
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The premise as I understand it is that using chemicals on a self-cleaner leaves chemical residue that can vaporize into noxious fumes at subsequent self-clean.
There is the argument that self-cleaning vaporizes food soils into noxious fumes.
I have an electric self-cleaner. I've never considered cleaning it manually with a product, other than after the last self-clean a bit of scrubbing with a blue-scrubbie sponge and a smidgen of Dawn on the interior window glass and a few door-rim areas that don't get the full blast of it.
Well, I had planned to remove the floor (it comes off with two screws) and use the cleaner and then rinse with water, but the overflow batter (from a cake I baked) came right off with a push because it had so much butter in it. I then scrubbed the surface with some dish soap, it seems to be adequately clean now.
Cleaning self cleaning oven with easy off
There is no harm whatsoever in using oven cleaner on smooth porcelain oven lighting whether they’re self cleaning or regular ovens.
Especially if you’re removing the floor and you can rinse it off thoroughly.
The trick is not spraying it and all sorts of cracks and crevices on a self cleaning oven where you can’t rinse it out completely then it will make it smell when you do self clean it.
John L
There is no harm whatsoever in using oven cleaner on smooth porcelain oven lighting whether they’re self cleaning or regular ovens.
Especially if you’re removing the floor and you can rinse it off thoroughly.
The trick is not spraying it and all sorts of cracks and crevices on a self cleaning oven where you can’t rinse it out completely then it will make it smell when you do self clean it.
John L
Well I recently cleaned my gas oven, giving it the entire four-hours and waiting a shorter time between the last self-cleaning...
The ashes, baked-on/broiled-on grease, and soot seem to cook away without ever tainting my food, and the smoke alarm never even goes off either...
It's really my range top, however, that will get very grubby and no matter how much I always cover what I'm frying, the mess always gets caked on pretty hard...
The burners have caps that easily get knocked off and I wish wouldn't as I have to precisely replace every time...
I like to freely go over the surface with a towel and some spray or just soak the wiping utensil to freely rub away where I please, needing only to remove and replace the iron grates which I need to find a way to wipe them off, too...
Nothing there seems to effectively work...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 5/5/2025-13:53]
The ashes, baked-on/broiled-on grease, and soot seem to cook away without ever tainting my food, and the smoke alarm never even goes off either...
It's really my range top, however, that will get very grubby and no matter how much I always cover what I'm frying, the mess always gets caked on pretty hard...
The burners have caps that easily get knocked off and I wish wouldn't as I have to precisely replace every time...
I like to freely go over the surface with a towel and some spray or just soak the wiping utensil to freely rub away where I please, needing only to remove and replace the iron grates which I need to find a way to wipe them off, too...
Nothing there seems to effectively work...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 5/5/2025-13:53]
I’ve found from over 60 years of cooking that the ONLY way to keep a stove top clean is to wipe it down thoroughly with a cloth, hot water and soap EVERY time I cook on it. I keep a wet dish cloth by the stove while I’m cooking and wipe off the spills and splatters right away and then when I finish doing the dishes I go over the stove top and backsplash with the dishcloth.
Electric stoves are much easier to keep clean than gas stoves, especially smooth top ranges. A gas stove requires a whole lot more effort to keep clean. Once the grease hardens up on any stove it’s a MUCH harder job to get it off.
I know, totally OCD, but since I’m the one that has to keep the SOB clean I’d rather clean it as I go than wait until it becomes a miserable task that takes a long time. Three to five mins a day is much easier to me than spending over an hour trying to remove cooked on grease.
I once rented a duplex that was previously occupied by a PIG! The O’Keeffe and Merritt gas stove was so greasy that when PG&E came to turn on the gas service they wouldn’t do it until that stove was taken apart and soaked to remove all the grease. Underneath the stove top there was I kid you not 1/2” of solidified grease with dozens of match sticks frozen in the grease because the slob that lived there before didn’t have the pilot light lit and just lit the burners with a match and tossed the used matches into the drip pans. That was the dirtiest stove I ever saw in my life. I had to take the whole stove top apart and soak all of it in the kitchen sink with hot water and ammonia to get it clean.
Eddie
Electric stoves are much easier to keep clean than gas stoves, especially smooth top ranges. A gas stove requires a whole lot more effort to keep clean. Once the grease hardens up on any stove it’s a MUCH harder job to get it off.
I know, totally OCD, but since I’m the one that has to keep the SOB clean I’d rather clean it as I go than wait until it becomes a miserable task that takes a long time. Three to five mins a day is much easier to me than spending over an hour trying to remove cooked on grease.
I once rented a duplex that was previously occupied by a PIG! The O’Keeffe and Merritt gas stove was so greasy that when PG&E came to turn on the gas service they wouldn’t do it until that stove was taken apart and soaked to remove all the grease. Underneath the stove top there was I kid you not 1/2” of solidified grease with dozens of match sticks frozen in the grease because the slob that lived there before didn’t have the pilot light lit and just lit the burners with a match and tossed the used matches into the drip pans. That was the dirtiest stove I ever saw in my life. I had to take the whole stove top apart and soak all of it in the kitchen sink with hot water and ammonia to get it clean.
Eddie
I remember my mom cleaning the oven of the 1953 Westinghouse with the brush-on Easy-Off. It came in a glass jar, and the brush was attached to the lid.
I remember using Easy Off in the glass jar with the handle attached to the lid. At least you didn’t have to breathe the fumes of the spray on Easy Off.
Eddie
Eddie
My grandmother used that kind of oven cleaner but I thought hers was mr. Muscle...but I was only about three and couldn't read much yet.
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