Cleaning Gas and Electric Ovens

The task of cleaning a dirty oven is a dreaded one for a lot of homeowners - one that usually requires significant elbow grease to remove all traces of oil, fat and baked on residue. In fact, more and more households are bringing in the professionals for one-off oven cleaning and if you’re London based, we work with some of the best specialists in oven cleaning Wandsworth has to offer. If you’re yet to tackle the oven in a new property, it’s first a good idea to get to grips with how best to clean your particular type of oven. To start off, is it a gas or electric oven? Each comes with their own challenges after all. A gas oven, for example, has an exposed heating element in it, which you should never allow to get wet during the cleaning process, as this may damage or affect the way it works. The biggest concern for many with electric ovens is how best to clean the heating element, which can often become covered in foodstuffs when used for its grill function particularly. If you scrub too much at this part of your oven, you might find left over cleaning products create a nasty smell when next used, or even smoke. There are many solutions aimed at homeowners looking to have sparkling clean ovens, however, they’re not all by any means fool proof. Oven cleaning kits are relatively new to the market, but still require a lot of faffing and elbow grease to get the job done, while some ovens also come with an auto-clean function, in which the oven heats up to a very high temperature to burn all dirt to a cinder. However, many people believe this function does more harm than good to your appliance.