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Stove Care and Maintenance

Tips that Keep your Wall Oven or Range Clean and Problem Free

Clean the Oven Regularly

Cleaning your gas or electric stove is much easier if you took steps when you first moved into your new place. The best investment you can make is to buy a wide roll of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Remove the drip pans under the burners, and cover each with the foil before you ever use them. There are liners made for this purpose, but the aluminum foil covers much better, and cheaper to replace. Drip pans are fairly standard and cheap to replace.

Run the Self-Cleaning cycle on a regular basis

That will depend on how often you use the oven.  On average I would say once a month should do the trick.  Clean around the door and door seal area, the self-clean function will not get these areas.  The oven temperature in self-clean mode gets over 800 degrees.  Be sure to remove large chunks of food.  They will catch on fire and create lots of smoke.  After the cycle has completed and the oven has cooled, wipe out ashes with a clean wet rag. Run the self-cleaning cycle at night, when kids won’t get near the hot stove and you won’t notice the odor as much.  Line the oven with foil once its clean.  This will help the oven stay cleaner longer.  Keep the foil from contacting the Bake Elements, Igniters or anything else electrical.

Keep the Surface Burners Clean

Use Foil under the Stove Top.  This is where the worst mess forms from spills and daily use.  It better just to replace your old drip pans than try to clean them.  The are relatively inexpensive to buy and come in pretty much standard sizes to fit most stove tops.

How to Clean Oven Door Glass

Go where oven cleaner can’t reach

Cleaning between the glass panels of an oven door looks impossible, but all you really need to do is dissassemble the door. It’s simple. Really.

  • Remove the panel
    Remove the screws that secure the front panel to the oven door frame. Note their location and store them in a cup. Then carefully lift off the panel and set it aside.
  • Remove the glass
    Remove the screws from the glass hold-downs and set them aside. Note the location of the retaining tabs above and below the glass. Then lift off the glass and clean it.

It’s a mystery how baking slop gets deposited between oven door glass panels. But it’s clear that you can’t remove it without disassembling the door. The job’s not that hard and takes less than an hour.

Remove the oven door (consult the manual for how to unlock the hinges and lift the door off). Then remove the exterior trim panel (Photo 1) and the glass hold-downs (Photo 2). Lift out the glass and handle it carefully (it’s expensive and breaks easily!).

Clean off the crud with a nylon scrub pad, hot water and degreaser. Rinse and dry, then clean with glass cleaner. Wear gloves to prevent fingerprints as you place the glass back onto the oven door. Be sure the glass sits inside the locating tabs before you reassemble the hold-downs. Then install the hold-down channels and screws and the trim panel. Put the door on the oven.

 

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