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Cleaning a gas oven
My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm
concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. -- for full context, visit https://www.homeownershub.com/mainte...n-1207198-.htm |
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 2:44:05 PM UTC-5, Jody wrote:
My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Just use the self-cleaning cycle like everybody else does. If it doesn't have a self-cleaning feature, use Easy Off the way my mother did back in the Dark Ages. Cindy Hamilton |
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On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote:
My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame.* It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? |
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On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote:
On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame.* It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia 112 cups hot water Mix the ingredients, apply generously to spills, and let soak for 30 minutes or as long as overnight. Loosen tough spills with a nylon scrubber and then wipe up with a damp sponge. The bottom of a gas oven requires the most cleaning. You can remove the bottom panel simply by lifting it out or by removing a couple of screws that hold it in place. With the oven bottom out, inspect and clean the gas burner. To determine how the burner is working, turn it on with the bottom panel off. If the flame isnt continuous along both sides of the burner, some of its holes are clogged. Turn off the oven control and insert a wire such as a coat hanger into the clogged holes. After the gas burner is clean, check to make sure that its burning efficiently a steady blue 1-inch cone, with an inner cone of about 1/2 inch. The air shutter, which you can adjust, controls the air mixture and, in turn, the color of the flame. Consult your owners manual for information about how to adjust the burner flame in your gas oven. |
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In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:44:02 +0000, Jody
m wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Just don't bump into the electric starter. You could bend an electrode if you hit it just right or hard enough. And if the flame isn't coming out of every hole, use a tooth pick or even something bigger to clean each hole. For the rest of it, you're on your own. Oh, make sure you don't have a continuous cleaning oven. They can't be cleaned or you ruin them. There are not too many of them left, but I think they're great. If one is dirty, you just say, Not my fault, not allowed to clean them. And they're never perfectly clean but they never get very dirty either. You can google the model number to see if it is one, or they have a slightly fuzzy inside, so if you can find someplace that's mostly clean and can tell fuzzy from dirty, anmd fuzzy from smooth, you should be able to figure it out. |
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote:
On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame.* It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Cindy Hamilton |
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On 01/23/2020 04:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Not quite as nasty as lye. Cleaning ovens isn't one of my high priority activities but I vaguely remember something about putting a lye and ammonia solution in a heat proof container, placing it in the oven, and turning it on for a while. The combination was related to the stuff Japanese suicides brew up but thankfully not as deadly. |
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On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 9:54:28 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 01/23/2020 04:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Not quite as nasty as lye. Cleaning ovens isn't one of my high priority activities but I vaguely remember something about putting a lye and ammonia solution in a heat proof container, placing it in the oven, and turning it on for a while. The combination was related to the stuff Japanese suicides brew up but thankfully not as deadly. Hence the popularity of the self-cleaning oven. I haven't manually cleaned an oven since 1989, when I moved out of my last rental. Cindy Hamilton |
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On 1/23/2020 10:29 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 9:54:28 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote: On 01/23/2020 04:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Not quite as nasty as lye. Cleaning ovens isn't one of my high priority activities but I vaguely remember something about putting a lye and ammonia solution in a heat proof container, placing it in the oven, and turning it on for a while. The combination was related to the stuff Japanese suicides brew up but thankfully not as deadly. Hence the popularity of the self-cleaning oven. I haven't manually cleaned an oven since 1989, when I moved out of my last rental. Cindy Hamilton Oven cleaner in the eye would probably lead to vision loss. It is nasty stuff. |
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 2:44:05 PM UTC-5, Jody wrote:
My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. -- for full context, visit https://www.homeownershub.com/mainte...n-1207198-.htm What are you planning on cleaning it with? Gasoline? Paint thinner? If it's oven cleaner or any typical water based kitchen cleaner, a pilot light is not an issue. |
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On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 6:18:03 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame.* It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Cindy Hamilton And first it's probably a good idea to read the instructions for the actual oven. If it's not self-cleaning, EasyOff or similar should be fine. If it's self-cleaning, they typically tell you to use that, then just wipe up with a wet sponge or use something mild so as to no damage the surface that has a catalyst in it. |
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On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:02:48 AM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 6:18:03 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame.* It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Cindy Hamilton And first it's probably a good idea to read the instructions for the actual oven. If it's not self-cleaning, EasyOff or similar should be fine. If it's self-cleaning, they typically tell you to use that, then just wipe up with a wet sponge or use something mild so as to no damage the surface that has a catalyst in it. When I said "they tell you to use that" above, I meant the self-clean process, not EasyOff. |
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On 1/23/2020 10:29 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 9:54:28 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote: On 01/23/2020 04:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:24:02 PM UTC-5, % wrote: On 2020-01-22 3:11 p.m., Charles Boyle wrote: On 1/22/20 2:44 PM, Jody wrote: My gas oven needs to be cleaned but since I've never had one before, I'm concerned about the flame. It does have an electric start. Maybe you could shut the gas off to the oven? You can use this people-friendly oven cleaner to make the inside of your gas oven sparkle. 2 teaspoons borax or baking soda 2 tablespoons dishwashing liquid 114 cups ammonia I don't see where this is any more people-friendly than commercial oven cleaner. Ammonia is nasty. Not quite as nasty as lye. Cleaning ovens isn't one of my high priority activities but I vaguely remember something about putting a lye and ammonia solution in a heat proof container, placing it in the oven, and turning it on for a while. The combination was related to the stuff Japanese suicides brew up but thankfully not as deadly. Hence the popularity of the self-cleaning oven. I haven't manually cleaned an oven since 1989, when I moved out of my last rental. Cindy Hamilton I've not tried it yet in this house. Cleaning lady keeps it spotless every time she comes. |
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On 01/23/2020 08:29 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
Hence the popularity of the self-cleaning oven. I haven't manually cleaned an oven since 1989, when I moved out of my last rental. I haven't manually cleaned an oven for longer than that. No, I don't have a self-cleaning oven either. |
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On 1/23/20 11:45 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 01/23/2020 08:29 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: Hence the popularity of the self-cleaning oven.* I haven't manually cleaned an oven since 1989, when I moved out of my last rental. I haven't manually cleaned an oven for longer than that. No, I don't have a self-cleaning oven either. http://www.alittlebitdirty.com/ |
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