The Clever Trick to Cleaning Your Oven While You Sleep

1. First, preheat the oven to 80°C.
2. While heating, heat water in a saucepan.
3. When the oven is hot, turn it off.
4. Place a gratin dish filled with vinegar on the top plate. Next, add the pan of water to the bottom of the oven, then close the oven. (You can also boil vinegared water directly and place it in the oven.)
5. You will just have to leave it on overnight. There is nothing else to do at the moment!
6. The next day, open the oven door to let the vinegar vapors escape. Do not hesitate to open the window if the smell bothers you.

Cleaning Clean Oven: Following this, remove the pan of water and collect the dish of vinegar. Add dishwashing detergent and use this product to scrub the various elements of the oven (walls, etc.). You can then rinse and dry.

However, we do not recommend mixing with baking soda, as these two products neutralize each other (hence the foam). However, you can sprinkle baking soda directly on the oven and scrub with your sponge soaked in vinegar. It will be more effective this way because they will have less time to neutralize, and you will be able to benefit from the “mechanical” effect of the foam on the dirt!

Why Does This Tip Work So Well for Cleaning the Oven? Vinegar alone is already very effective in degreasing and removing stains from an oven, especially when it is heated beforehand. Boiling water, but also heating the oven will allow the formation of vinegary steam, which will act here for several hours. This will soften and melt the fat stuck in the oven.

Good to know: If you don’t have vinegar, lemon juice will have the same properties and has the advantage of smelling better. Furthermore, you can heat a bowl of water with vinegar or lemon in your microwave to clean it too.