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I would say maybe twice a year. I cook a lot of meals on the grill so I don't use my oven that much. Unless I spill something in the oven, spring and fall.
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We just replaced our range after about 10 years and we never used the self cleaning feature on it. There was some dripping onto the bottom of the new oven when cooking Christmas dinner and I cleaned it manually.
Never, anymore. The last appliance that came with the house is the oven. Everything else has been replaced. The self clean feature on the oven broke about a year ago, and I haven’t wanted to put the money into getting it fixed, because I know the oven will most likely fail soon.
I have a funny story, though. When my youngest child was about 3, my in-laws--who live five miles away--went away for a few days and asked us to feed and walk their dog. I took the kids over one morning to do that, and went again in the evening. There was a very peculiar, almost chemical smell in the house that night like something had been burning, so I called my husband to come over.
It turned out that our 3-year-old had wandered into the kitchen that morning, and with eerie accuracy had pressed one butten and turned another knob, which started the oven self-clean. It was a two-step process and I still don't know how he managed to do it. That in itself wouldn't have been so bad, but unfortunately my mother-in-law stores pots and pans in the oven, and some of them had plastic handles which had melted. Oops.
I cook a lot and my current wall double oven has an air fry feature. I use that for chicken wings and my oven gets messy. I either use the steam clean feature or the short clean. After, I just wipe out the grey residue. It's simple and easy. I would say probably once a month? It just depends on what's on the menu.
I have a funny story, though. When my youngest child was about 3, my in-laws--who live five miles away--went away for a few days and asked us to feed and walk their dog. I took the kids over one morning to do that, and went again in the evening. There was a very peculiar, almost chemical smell in the house that night like something had been burning, so I called my husband to come over.
It turned out that our 3-year-old had wandered into the kitchen that morning, and with eerie accuracy had pressed one butten and turned another knob, which started the oven self-clean. It was a two-step process and I still don't know how he managed to do it. That in itself wouldn't have been so bad, but unfortunately my mother-in-law stores pots and pans in the oven, and some of them had plastic handles which had melted. Oops.
Ugh. Kids can be so quick and smart. When our kids were toddlers we used to engage the control lock button on the oven but if we had been dog sitting at someone else's house it wouldn't have even dawned on me to do that!
I cook a lot and my current wall double oven has an air fry feature. I use that for chicken wings and my oven gets messy. I either use the steam clean feature or the short clean. After, I just wipe out the grey residue. It's simple and easy. I would say probably once a month? It just depends on what's on the menu.
The steam clean method sounds like a good way to do it. I'll have to check to see if my oven has that feature.
We just replaced our range after about 10 years and we never used the self cleaning feature on it. There was some dripping onto the bottom of the new oven when cooking Christmas dinner and I cleaned it manually.
Usually our cooking doesn't mess the oven up too badly but we cook roasted duck on New Year's Eve and the grease really splatters as it cooks.
I wipe out the worst of it and then use the self clean function. Got it going now as a matter of fact. When that's completed and the oven has cooled, I'll wipe at whatever residual ash is left and enjoy a clean oven for awhile.
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