Essential Tips For Maintaining Your Oven

Cleaning and maintaining your oven frequently is imperative in ensuring the longevity of your oven, as well as preventing bad smells, burns and stains from permeating the interior of your oven and ultimately impacting the quality of your food. In this blog, we take a brief look at the essential tips for maintaining your oven, to reduce the risk of breakdowns, bad odours and energy inefficiency.



Deep Clean

Cleaning your oven regularly is important, particularly if you are cooking elaborate and potentially messy meals daily, and although regular cleaning and maintenance are of course important to the continued efficiency and effectiveness of your oven, ensuring you carry out a thorough deep clean at least twice a year is absolutely imperative. When cooking food it will naturally release fats, oils and grease, which can spit and burn and leave a nasty smell. Worse still, this food will only continue to burn with each time you turn your oven on, which will later start to permeate everything else you cook. This makes carrying out cleaning and maintenance work crucial, with a thorough deep clean a necessary chore in the long term. Below are some key oven-cleaning tips you should consider:

●     Wait for your oven to cool down fully before cleaning.

●     If cleaning with a wet cloth by hand, ensure your oven is unplugged or switched off at the circuit breaker to prevent accidents or injury.

●     Never remove your oven knobs – chemical cleaning solutions can find their way behind the oven knobs and damage your wiring.

●     Remove your oven racks and soak, scrub and dry them thoroughly.

●     Wipe down your oven interior with a wet cloth doused in a baking soda solution.

●     Wait for the oven to dry before use and then plug back in.

Check Your Gasket

The rubber strip that lines your oven door is known as the oven gasket and is crucial to providing the air-tight seal required to heat your oven sufficiently and ensure the temperature is appropriately maintained. During your oven cleaning maintenance or deep clean, you should inspect your oven gaskets for general wear and tear, as well as any serious holes, tears or burns. If you notice any serious damage, you will need to have your oven gasket replaced.

Soak Your Racks

As suggested, a key part of maintaining your oven and eliminating nasty burning smells permeating your cooking is the thorough cleaning of your racks, trays and rails. After all, it’s not just the interior walls of your oven that will get dirty, the actual contents of the oven itself are also likely to suffer from the build-up of grease, food stains and burn marks. You should remove and deep soak your oven rails, racks and trays in a baking soda solution a couple of times a year to prevent this issue from becoming severe.

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