Can I use Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner in a self-cleaning oven?Updated a day ago
TL;DR: Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner works on the interior of a self-cleaning oven, but you use it by hand rather than through the cycle. Apply it to a cold, switched-off oven, scrub, then rinse every trace of product away and let the cavity dry before you close the door or start the self-clean or pyrolytic cycle. Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner contains ethanol, a volatile organic compound, and a pyrolytic cycle takes the cavity to somewhere between 400 and 500°C. That is why the rinse is not an optional step.
How do I use Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner in a self-cleaning oven?
✓ How to clean a self-cleaning oven by hand
Switch it off and let it cool right down. Never put product on a hot oven surface.
Fill a Foamer and apply. Spray Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner onto the oven interior, the door glass and any greasy surfaces.
Leave it a few minutes, then scrub. A sponge or cloth handles most of it. Use a Grout Brush on stubborn baked-on patches.
Rinse everything off. Go over every surface with a clean damp cloth until no product residue is left, then let the cavity dry before you close the door or switch the oven on.
Why does every trace have to be rinsed off first?
Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner contains ethanol, a volatile organic compound, and a pyrolytic cycle takes the cavity to somewhere between 400 and 500°C. That is why the rinse is not an optional step.
⚠ What the heat meets
Product left in the cavity does not evaporate off in open air the way it would on a benchtop. It sits there until the cycle heats it.
Rinsing every trace away and letting the cavity dry is what keeps the two apart. That holds for any cleaning product, not only this one.
✓ The order that works
Manual clean first, cycle second. Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner does the heavy lifting on baked-on grease while the oven is cold. The self-clean cycle then deals with what is left, on a cavity with nothing in it.
Can I run the self-clean cycle with cleaner still inside?
✓ Manual clean first, then self-clean
Use Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner for the heavy lifting. Once the cavity is rinsed and dry, run the self-cleaning or pyrolytic cycle as normal.
⚠ Never run the cycle with product inside
Clean the oven cold and switched off, then rinse every trace of product away and let the cavity dry. Never start a self-clean, pyrolytic or catalytic cycle with any cleaning product still inside. Check your oven manual as well, because some makers restrict what can go on a catalytic liner.
What about a pyrolytic oven?
⚠ Pyrolytic and catalytic ovens
Pyrolytic ovens reach very high temperatures during the self-clean cycle. Clean the oven cold and switched off, then rinse every trace of product away and let the cavity dry. Never start a self-clean, pyrolytic or catalytic cycle with any cleaning product still inside. Check your oven manual as well, because some makers restrict what can go on a catalytic liner.
Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner isn't food grade, so rinse any surface that food touches with clean water afterwards.
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