Let’s talk about ovens and refrigerators.

Ronni

Ronni

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Nashville TN
Do you clean yours out regularly or once in a while or not at all?

I clean my refrigerator every week before I do the grocery shopping. It never gets dirty because I hate spills and sticky spots and odors, and things in the back of the fridge that I don’t recognize anymore that have turned into science experiments, so I make sure that doesn’t happen.

My oven on the other hand? Yeah. I’ve never cleaned it. 😂 Which honestly amazes and perplexes me because I’m such a clean freak about ever other thing in my house!! 🤷‍♀️

What about you?
 

I have a "self-cleaning" oven .... NAH! ... 3 hours later, and still needing attention. ... maybe when it was new. It's several years old now.
... It requires hand scrubbing these days whenever it gets any spills .. the racks especially - my least favorite job around the kitchen.

But I do have to clean it - rules when you rent an apartment. 😀
 
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Fridge clean out once a week and wiped down. Oven, I hate to clean the oven. If I have a spill during cooking I try to wipe it out when it happens clean it once every two or three months. I make a paste of baking soda and vinegar and spread that over all sufaces and the door. I leave it to sit overnight and then wipe out and clean rinse with water. I use the same thing on the glass top. Works well without the fumes and the expense of commercial cleaners. Google cleaning with soda and vinergar, it does alot of jobs around the house.
 
I use this to clean my oven...it;s better than any other Oven cleaner on the market... and it can be used for loads of other things too..

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...and I always make sure anything that's spilled or spoiled in my fridge gets disposed or cleaned immediately.. so really I only actually take the shelves out every few weeks and reline them.. I have plastic wipe clean shelf liners ..easier to wipe down than taking shelves out every day..
 
hollydolly said:
I use this to clean my oven...it;s better than any other Oven cleaner on the market... and it can be used for loads of other things too..

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...and I always make sure anything that's spilled or spoiled in my fridge gets disposed or cleaned immediately.. so really I only actually take the shelves out every few weeks and reline them.. I have plastic wipe clean shelf liners ..easier to wipe down than taking shelves out every day..
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What method do you use to make it work?
 
I see...

I tell you.. we've had Astonish products here for decades, and the truth is they're all rubbish, they just don't do what;s claimed of them... but this stuff is new on the market and is on a different level to all other astonish products . It's a soft paste smells of peppermint and you just rub it on in a circular motion, and it works like magic. Even cleans baked on oven grease that is years old.. . If you can get it, I highly recommend it..
 
made from baking and washing soda, cheaper to buy the vinegar and soda and make my own in a bowl. I use the baking soda and vinergar all over the house. Kitchen and baths, down the drains to keep them clean. You never realize until you try it. I also save my news papers,they make the best thing to clean my mirrors and glass table tops. No streaks and no left over little pieces of fluff from paper towels. They are really absorbent. I don't even buy the paper, it comes in weekly with the grocery ad papers. That is what I use.
 
My one and only attempt to use a self-cleaning oven was a disaster. A casserole topped with cornbread mix had bubbled over badly and was all over the bottom of the oven. Hey! A chance to use the self-cleaning option! What could go wrong, I said. This will be easy, I said. I'm so glad I have this option, I said.

My first mistake was not vigorously scraping the mess off the bottom of the oven. I made a stab, but thought, hey, it's all going to turn to dust, so why go to all that trouble?

So I take out the racks and set the oven to self-clean. So far, so good. Then.....I see smoke coming out of one of the burners. Uh-oh. Then I see !!!FLAMES!!! through the glass window on the oven door. Uh-oh, Chapter Two.

Of course, I immediate hit cancel on the self-cleaning option. Whew! But wait, there's more!

Flames are still flaming....smoke is still pouring out smoke....I have the fire extinguisher in hand BUT.I.CAN.NOT.OPEN.THE.OVEN.DOOR because there's an automatic locking feature that works until the oven cools down, which ain't happening any time soon, unfortunately.

Smoke alarm goes off WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO! This isn't helping, not at all.

Hey, maybe I can reach behind the stove and unplug it, thereby disabling the locking feature. Good idea, but that means either climbing on top of a hot burning stove (nope #1) or wrestling a hot stove out that's tightly wedged between cabinets (nope #2). That leaves the only option....calling the fire department. Oh, hell.

Luckily, at that moment, I see the flames burn out and all I'm left with is a smokey kitchen and a screaming smoke alarm.

I did eventually get the oven cleaned (manually....), all the soot gone and the smoke cleared out. I never used the automatic clean again. I will NEVER use it in the future.
 
I also have learned that lesson, did not have to call the fire department but I had all the smoke and mess to clean up. We should know there is no thing that is self cleaning LOL
 
Speaking of cleaning -- a word for the wise. You can buy appliances from Amazon. They even install them, and haul away the old one, for a small additional fee. So I ordered a dishwasher -- but only because of the install and haul feature. Day or two later I got a hard to interpret email -- the install and haul thing was unavailable, so I was not going to be charged for it. OK -- but were they just going to leave a dishwasher by the front door! Seems they were. Aieee! I called Amazon customer support, and sure enough, my interpretation of their email was correct. Fortunately the rep was on my side and was glad to cancel the whole thing, so off to Home Depot, and a new Bosch dishwasher.
 
I wipe off the shelves and bins of our refrigerator if I see anything there. Otherwise, I never do a routine cleaning. Our oven is a Thermador that came with house 23 years ago and still works like new. We've only had the touch panel replaced. I put it on Self Clean every couple of months and then wipe down the crusty stuff at the bottom. We eat pretty healthy, but I do sometimes cook frozen pizzas directly on the middle rack so it becomes a bit messy. (BTW, Digiorno is the best!)
 
My fridge sounds like it's about to lift off the runway. It doesn't seem to get dirty, as everything is in sealed containers. I give it a wipe if I see anything.

I never live anywhere long enough to worry about serious oven cleaning. If I see anything I give it a wipe.
 
I spot clean the inside of the old harvest gold refrigerator in my apartment as needed. I wash the crisper about once a month. The egg cups on the door are the most annoying little traps for dirt and grime.

I rarely use the oven and have never used the broiler. I keep a disgusting old pizza pan on the rack to catch spills. I scrape and wash the pizza pan as needed.

I’m not sure that I could manage to give the oven a thorough cleaning without help and I’m not in a hurry to find out. 😉
 
I clean my oven about every 6-8 mos, I really don't use it as much as I used to.
And, I always line the bottom w/a piece of foil. so if I spill...it goes on to the foil.

The fridge gets a cleaning whenever ...no set schedule.
 
I clean my refrigerator every week before the shopping comes. I eat mostly fresh stuff anyway, so I move what I haven't used to the top shelf, and put the new stuff at the bottom. The top third is a freezer compartment, I only clean that when it needs defrosting. The oven I haven't used for a few months, so that's ok. The airfryer gets cleaned after I use it. If you keep on top of these things it isn't a chore really.
 
dobielvr said:
I clean my oven about every 6-8 mos, I really don't use it as much as I used to.
And, I always line the bottom w/a piece of foil. so if I spill...it goes on to the foil.

The fridge gets a cleaning whenever ...no set schedule.
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I used to always keep a sheet of foil at the bottom of my oven. I had to get a new one a few years ago and it says I can't do that anymore. What is that all about? I would not have bought it had I known. It was already delivered and installed so I just live with it.
 

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