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I have never experienced such a leap forward in technology as the self cleaning oven. Added insulating allows the oven to hold heat for longer periods which calls for the radiant heating element to cycle less producing superior results in baked goods. All that aside, I live for a self cleaning oven. In my 5 Wishes when asked how the funeral should look I direct the kids to throw me in the self cleaning oven and have a party! In the 60's when self cleaning ovens first came along I experimented with self cleaning pots and pans etc. The oven not only cleans itself it will clean all things aluminum, cast iron, Pyrex, Corning as well as waffle grids and barbeque grates. In the 80's I had a second hand store and I gathered inventory everywhere I went. I had a GM Frigidaire in those days and I would run it as often as 4 or 5 times a week cleaning up the items I wanted to place in the store as pristine. Now that I am retired and live in relative obscurity I seldom find the need to clean the oven. Cooking in large vessels and shielding possible runovers with foil or a cookie sheet helps to minimize mess. The range I have now has a convection mode for both baking and roasting and it is very seldom I activate the lower calrod. If things boil over on the oven floor they are easily wiped up because the element isn't fusing the sugar and grease to the oven floor. The cost of running the cleaning cycle is minimal and low impact on the environment. I marvel watching someone spray oven cleaner at $7.00 a can with fleurocarbons and lye into the oven and run gallons of water down the sink washing and rinsing out the oven because they didn't want to run the cleaning cycle since it must use a lot of electricity. I'm a low rage environmentalist but I let the holier than thous have it when I hear about oven cleaning or watch them run gallons of water down the sink rinsing dishes before loading the dishwasher. So to end my rant, I use the self cleaning oven when indicated but always attempt to cook and bake in such a way no mess is created and I never rinse anything before laoding the dishwasher. Clean is easy.
I have never experienced such a leap forward in technology as the self cleaning oven. Added insulating allows the oven to hold heat for longer periods which calls for the radiant heating element to cycle less producing superior results in baked goods. All that aside, I live for a self cleaning oven. In my 5 Wishes when asked how the funeral should look I direct the kids to throw me in the self cleaning oven and have a party! In the 60's when self cleaning ovens first came along I experimented with self cleaning pots and pans etc. The oven not only cleans itself it will clean all things aluminum, cast iron, Pyrex, Corning as well as waffle grids and barbeque grates. In the 80's I had a second hand store and I gathered inventory everywhere I went. I had a GM Frigidaire in those days and I would run it as often as 4 or 5 times a week cleaning up the items I wanted to place in the store as pristine. Now that I am retired and live in relative obscurity I seldom find the need to clean the oven. Cooking in large vessels and shielding possible runovers with foil or a cookie sheet helps to minimize mess. The range I have now has a convection mode for both baking and roasting and it is very seldom I activate the lower calrod. If things boil over on the oven floor they are easily wiped up because the element isn't fusing the sugar and grease to the oven floor. The cost of running the cleaning cycle is minimal and low impact on the environment. I marvel watching someone spray oven cleaner at $7.00 a can with fleurocarbons and lye into the oven and run gallons of water down the sink washing and rinsing out the oven because they didn't want to run the cleaning cycle since it must use a lot of electricity. I'm a low rage environmentalist but I let the holier than thous have it when I hear about oven cleaning or watch them run gallons of water down the sink rinsing dishes before loading the dishwasher. So to end my rant, I use the self cleaning oven when indicated but always attempt to cook and bake in such a way no mess is created and I never rinse anything before laoding the dishwasher. Clean is easy.
