Non-Toxic Oven Cleaner

You don’t have to use toxic commercial cleaners that can contaminate your food to clean your oven. There is a better way!

Commercial oven cleaners is very hard to rinse and the taste of it gets into food. Yum: Roast turkey a la Oven Cleaner. Many also get headaches when using commercial products.

Believe it or not, you can clean your oven safely with nothing
but baking soda and water. Give this a try, because it really works!

Most people can hardly believe that all I use for cleaning the oven is baking soda and water, and that the project requires no scrubbing. I suppose we have all been so brainwashed by household products companies that we mistakenly believe we require powerful chemicals for cleaning. But most people don’t know that simple household minerals such as baking soda can clean like magic. The key is using enough of the mineral.

To clean my oven, I sprinkle baking soda all over the bottom until it is covered completely with about 1/4 of an inch of baking soda. Then, using a clean spray bottle, I spray the baking soda with water until the baking soda is thoroughly damp but not flooded. After that, this lazy cleaner goes off and does other things. When I think of it, I dampen the baking soda again if it is drying out. Before I go to bed, I do that again. When I wake up in the morning, the baking soda can effortlessly be scooped out of the oven with a sponge, bringing all the grime with it. That’s it! The only downside is that you need to rinse out the white residue left by the baking soda, but it sure beats Turkey à La Oven Cleaner because there are no fumes!

Read more: Home, Non-Toxic Cleaning

By Annie B. Bond

Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may not reflect those of
Care2, Inc., its employees or advertisers.

Lynn B.

11:29AM PDT on Mar 12, 2012

I have never thought of using baking soda to clean my oven. It makes perfect sense though, baking soda is used in my house for a lot of things. I guess this is just one more to add to the list of useful house cleaning tips. Thanks for posting.

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Lauren T.

5:18AM PST on Feb 6, 2012

I going to try this, and sounds so simple!

Michele W.

6:53AM PST on Feb 4, 2012

Helpful.
Thanks

Brenda T.

3:33AM PST on Feb 4, 2012

Clean an oven etc. when they are still hot! It saves a lot of time and effort.

Rose D.

2:46PM PST on Feb 3, 2012

This is great thanks

Cinderella Maid S.

10:40AM PDT on Oct 2, 2011

Pretty cool post. It’s really very nice and useful post. Thanks for sharing this with us!it’s my first visit.

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Marcia M.

3:15AM PDT on Jun 9, 2011

Baking soda, vinegar and lemon are awesome.

July E.

10:08AM PDT on Mar 19, 2011

Vinegar and Baking Soda are two of my favorite cleaning products.

10:07AM PDT on Mar 19, 2011

Baking Soda and vinegar are two of my favorite cleaning products.

Chuck K.

11:04AM PDT on Sep 27, 2010

Everyone should have eco-friendly toys in their house. I recently just started using green cleaning products and they work just as good if not better than regular products.