On Dec 2, 6:47*pm, "Joseph" wrote:
Through lack of maintenance on my part hehe our cooker is now smoking a bit
when in use setting the fire alarm off occasionally which is my motivation
for cleaning it.

I rubbed down the wire rack and tray with a wire brush come up and treat as
there was baked on crap on both.

But its still smoking obviously inside where stuff has gone splat. I tried
conventional scrubbing but made no progress as it was beyond baked on.
I guess its time to put chemicals to work ?

In the past I tried mr muscle oven cleaner whilst it tickled the burnt on
stuff it didn't really do much.

I'm not expecting to bring it back to new but would like to get a decent
finish.

The glass is completely covered in baked on stuff, I'm guessing the chance
of seeing through that again are gone lol...

Having never got this involved with the cooker I was wondering if anyone
knows what I can use.

Slap on my wrist for not cleaning it once a month or something.

Advice greatly recevied gents *thumbs up*

There's only one checmical to use, caustic soda. Decent oven cleaner
products have it in at 10x the price. The easy way is to mix caustic
with water, brush it over the whole oven interior, place a shallow
tray of water in the bottom, and switch the oven on.

To clean the glass, give it a soak in boiling alkaline water irst, the
crud will then be very soft for a number of minutes, and can be got
off with acopper scourere. Don't use a steel scourer, sometimes it
scratches the glass and damages it.

Do bear in mind that caustic soda is caustic, it will burn you if it
can.


NT